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bwDraco
bwDraco
12:00 AM
The situation seems to be stabilizing as I'm now back home, albeit not entirely resolved. Hopefully, things will settle down, but I'll keep you updated if anything happens.
That was scary.
I wouldn't say it's all-clear yet but it's no longer an immediate risk.
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
1:15 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): What is the correct pronunciation of "Ra's Al Ghul"? by Mikel Veltski on scifi.SE
 
user302202
1:43 AM
Lets get #STEEM on #StackExchange. Visit the proposal at https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121369/steem?referrer=rb45XlaNtW7DFdh-AQrZJg2 to vote to approve the community. #crypto #cryptocurrency #programming #developers
Tweeted by netuoso on February 12, 2019 at 12:52 AM
 
user302202
sigh, here we go once again
 
user302202
There is also this:
 
user302202
> Proposed Q&A site for users and developers of Grin, an implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
 
ArtOfCode
ArtOfCode
sigh
can we just not with all the cryptocurrency/blockchain sites
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
In my opinion the reason why a lot of new sites are not having enough committers show up and thus failing in private beta is because the new 4-month deadline is enticing people to sympathy-commit.
 
Bookends
Bookends
2:04 AM
I still prefer the "Desk & Workplace" proposal...
oh, deleted???
 
user302202
A51 has become very efficient at deleting proposals
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
2:30 AM
 
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SmokeDetector
2:43 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title (195): Is reverse senescence/"anti-aging" actually scientifically possible among humans yet? by Soap Func on biology.SE
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:17 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body (99): I want to find a fitness whole sale in Italy by user474027 on meta.SE (@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog @ShadowWizard)
 
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3:29 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, pattern-matching product name in body, pattern-matching product name in title, potentially bad keyword in title (298): What do you think of Keto diet plus HBO2T in cancer Treatment by Dr. Sorush Niknamian on academia.SE
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:57 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username (92): What type of bonding is there among d-block metals? by Anonymous Teacher on chemistry.SE
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
4:08 AM
 
Travis J
Travis J
5:02 AM
@Shog9 I saw a post and immediately thought of your rhetorical question. Out of curiosity, and in response to your rhetorical question (which this is replying to), how much of this advice falls into the category of "internalized some rule that never actually existed" versus actual rules that are generally accepted?
(hopefully that doesn't send you a phone notification and you can get back to it in your own time)
 
Shog9
Shog9
It did
@TravisJ 50/50
 
Travis J
Travis J
ugh, sorry
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body (100): Adobe Reader issues on Windows by Amelia Alby on apple.SE
 
Travis J
Travis J
Okay. Is the 50% side which does not align with the how to answer page problematic as outlook, or just a side effect of trying to keep the site clean?
Sometimes, seeing advice to not answer gives me pause. Perhaps it is nothing, but then again, perhaps there is more there? Kind of why I asked. I was also hoping to catch you at a more normal time, maybe you can respond more tomorrow.
 
ɪBᴜɢ
ɪBᴜɢ
What does "peanuts" mean?
nope..... im here for the communty and all them peanuts!! — Ryker Miller 4 mins ago
 
Travis J
Travis J
5:17 AM
I would assume it relates to Iceland and Fridays.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
I hate Mondays...
 
ɪBᴜɢ
ɪBᴜɢ
nothing sensible on OED either...
 
Travis J
Travis J
lol iceland friday peanuts, love it
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Q: Always Friday in Iceland?

Tyler CarterJust because I can't find where this has been asked before, could someone explain the always-friday-in-iceland meme?

discussion meta fun memes
In general, it was a reference to fun, I believe. That was what I was trying to relate to with the Iceland meme
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@ɪBᴜɢ I think he refers to the peanut gallery
 
Travis J
Travis J
That would be a good guess too
 
ɪBᴜɢ
ɪBᴜɢ
5:26 AM
gonna head over to ELL...
 
user302202
People will do what they want to do, and conversely. A meta thread makes no difference regardless of which position it advocates.
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in link text in body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body (164): What are the ways To Facilitate Learn Arabic For Kids In Online? by berlitz on superuser.com
 
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6:21 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body, potentially bad keyword in body (98): can I have best london taxi booking services near me? by Airport Taxi on superuser.com
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:34 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title (195): Zephrofel Singapore Carries Out It Carry Out? by user133196 on graphicdesign.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (61): Set up a VPN, route samba over it by Victoria Tegg on askubuntu.com
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
6:55 AM
baaad morning!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:08 AM
@ɪBᴜɢ eel?
@Tinkeringbell why?
 
Alex
Alex
@Tinkeringbell No coffee?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@ɪBᴜɢ think he meant "nuts", as in " I'm here for the community and all them crazy people", in a good way.
nuts is often replaced with peanuts.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Alex no coffee yet and no trains either. :(
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Alex easy to fix!
!!/coffee Tink Alex
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
@ShadowWizard brews a cup of Latte for @Tink
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:13 AM
@Tinkeringbell no ride with Nespresso?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Yay, latte!
@ShadowWizard Thank goodness no :). He drives like he wants me dead.
 
Alex
Alex
Is there a command for trains?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell but he'd also be dead... lol
@Alex let's see!
!!/train
waiting
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
@ShadowWizard No such command 'train'.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Alex nope ^
 
Alex
Alex
7:15 AM
I guess we can work from home then.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Alex it's called Twitter. I'm feeling too lazy to go cause drama though
 
Alex
Alex
@Tinkeringbell Oooohhhhh, drama!
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Alex wish that were true ;) ah well, at least this one is rolling now
 
Alex
Alex
So the command worked after all.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
No, this is called 'schedule'
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:18 AM
@Tinkeringbell no meta for the train company? :(
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Hahaha no.
Train is really short so really busy as well. I kinda love the judgmental looks I get for not wearing a business suit but travelling first class
 
Alex
Alex
@Tinkeringbell Judgmental look
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell first class in train?? Never saw that, but I didn't ride a train for years.... Also what's the point of short train? lol
The whole point is having many seats and as much people riding it as possible.... no?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard short train usually means the other part has a defect, so they only sent one part to ride this route. That way, they can boost their stats by saying 'this percentage of our trains was on time' as they just count whether or not there was a train, not if it was the entire train
First class is okayish, it has more room and single seats so no elbow wrestling. Also, bigger chance of actually getting a seat under circumstances like this.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell huh, that's... devious. :P
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
7:27 AM
But all of that doesn't make the train ride on time. And if trains just were on time and all riding more often, we could get rid of overpriced first class travel
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I hope the company pays for your train rides? Even first class? @Tink
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Yeah. They should really adjust those metrics. It's like counting lines of code to determine a developers worth
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Also... how goes the driving classes?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Yep.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell yeah, easy to abuse.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
7:29 AM
@ShadowWizard Better, I've started the process of getting a lease car but it's slow (right now I'm waiting for my promotion to actually be in a system)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell oh, so you can drive again, if only having a car? Good to hear! :)
 
Alex
Alex
Does the car have first class?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Well, not really... I'm now driving automatic transmission like some kind of disabled person, and I'm still afraid it's only a proverbial bandaid that'll fall off too someday. But I don't want to take trains for the rest of my life, so even though driving is probably always going to be a problem I'm just going to force myself, otherwise it won't happen ever
@Alex wish that were true. Then I could get perhaps a car with a driver :P
A GOOD driver
 
Alex
Alex
Good drivers are no fun.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Alex sure
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
7:33 AM
@Alex Less mini heart attacks and stress too though
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
(that's inside a car ^)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Looks more like a bus
 
Magisch
Magisch
looks oversized and unpractical
 
Alex
Alex
@Tinkeringbell Well, you can't expect fun to be free.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell nah, limousine. Or should be. Google gave it. ;)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
7:35 AM
@Alex Oh sure. There's other ways than driving recklessly and crashing other people to have fun though ;)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Magisch like most things designed only for very rich people, e.g. big gold watches.
 
Alex
Alex
@Tinkeringbell Yeah, like causing trouble on Stack Exchange chat.
 
Magisch
Magisch
@ShadowWizard Never understood that. Even if I was the #1 richest person on earth, why would I make my car needlessly clunky and unpractical?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Magisch show off
 
Magisch
Magisch
or wear a giant gold watch? Gold's heavy, and my cellphone has a watch on it
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:36 AM
To show people you have the money and power.
 
Magisch
Magisch
yeah but why
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Magisch humans
:D
 
Magisch
Magisch
there are more productive ways of showing off
"Look at this huge charity I just founded"
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Magisch To avoid judgmental glances when travelling first class :P
 
Magisch
Magisch
7:37 AM
if I'm rich why do I care
 
Alex
Alex
I think the looks you'd get for that might be even more judgmentaly.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell taxi? ;)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
If you're not, you don't care either, trust me :P
 
rene
rene
Our cloud service provider has a major storage outage last night. Looks like it still isn't resolved :(
 
Magisch
Magisch
In general the whole showing off thing has extremely limited usefulness
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
7:38 AM
@ShadowWizard Took one once, when trains were absolute horror. Was fun, but expensive!!
 
Magisch
Magisch
I can understand it in situations where you stand to gain substantially like e.g interviews
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell no refund from company? Not 100%, but even 50% should make it tolerable, no?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@rene Twitter rant? Zero star review?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@rene Azure? Amazon?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Oh, I got it back 100 percent ;) that was the fun part... I took three other people and told them they didn't have to pay anything.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:40 AM
If not, maybe worth moving to one of those, i.e. big provider? @rene
Small providers can't really assure 100% uptime, they're just not big enough to have the required resources. IMO of course.
@Tinkeringbell omg.... so why don't you do it more often?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard I can only lay claim to a small amount it money for travelling each month :P
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell ohh.. so how many taxi rides per month? Even if one or two, use it. :D
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
This was Den Bosch - Eindhoven, and it already cost 80/90 euros.
I can do six or seven of those a month
Providing I don't take any trains
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell whoa. That's lots of money. lol
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
But that part doesn't get me home ;)
@ShadowWizard Especially if you think it's not even that far a drive.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:44 AM
> 36 min (38.2 km) via A2
Is this correct? ^
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Sounds about right :)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Here such a taxi ride costs about 150 NIS, which are 36.47 Euro
I do it sometimes when car in garage.
Got app for taxi, just opening the app, typing where I need to go, and a taxi arrives in matter of minutes, usually.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Sounds like a much better price :P. But perhaps gas and cars and licencing and maintenance are cheaper there too?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell not at all, cars cost twice than in USA, not sure about Europe. Gas also cost twice or thrice than in USA.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard In this case, I was at the train station. There's usually a few taxis around on big stations that you can just walk up to
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
7:47 AM
(due to 100% tax on both.)
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
As a Californian I was astounded at the low fuel prices here in Texas.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
I'm pretty sure that's not the case here. But I'd have to look it up. It'll have to wait, I have to exit this train and get walking to the office. BBL!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog yeah, I was amazed at the overall cheap gas price when visiting USA few years ago. Drove a lot.
@Tinkeringbell Have fun!
 
rene
rene
8:01 AM
@ShadowWizard nope, a dutch local firm. Due to legal stuff we can't shop outside of the EU
@Tinkeringbell sure, be my guest ;)
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@rene that's... sad. But suppose Amazon/Microsoft/Google would have local branch in Europe which provides the cloud, won't you be able to use it?
(i.e. servers are actually in EU)
 
rene
rene
well, the case is that American law allows that data that is stored in the EU still needs to be transferred to the US on demand.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
oh
bummer
So you must use EU cloud which somtimes rains.
hmm.... spam seed?
Avatar is a fake, belongs to other Jessica: ece.lehigh.edu/index.php?page=jessica-berton
Unless... she changed name and relocated to India?? Anyway, high chance of a spammer here.
@JNat tricky one here. Spammy profile, posted two answers on the network so far, which are pretty much nonsense, so likely posted just to have links to the spam profile. Think it should be nuked? Or just flag the posts?
(note that the network profile is blank, the user put the spammy details per site, e.g. here)
hehe
@PritishVaidya If you want ideas, feel free to jump into the Tavern and ask, there are lots of awesome people there from all over SE. https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta :)
Tweeted by Yahav32498041 on February 12, 2019 at 8:29 AM in reply to PritishVaidya
@Mrs.Robinson how you found that game? Looks like it's still not launched. lol
Oh hey I'm doing solo here!
Reminds me, my daughter is in the school's choir, she'll get to sing a solo next month. :D
 
Bookends
Bookends
8:35 AM
Great!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Guess it's in the genes, my mother is in her village choir for many years. :P
oh, they're even on YouTube! Never searched before.... lol
That's the choir ^
 
Bookends
Bookends
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Bookends heh, but how Product Hunt found that game?
 
Bookends
Bookends
Looks like the author added it there, instead of it found that
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
oh
So wonder how he'll launch the game once it's ready...
 
Bookends
Bookends
8:43 AM
StackApps + profile's About Me +avatar are not bad...
Oh, they also have producthunt.com/ask
 
αλεχολυτ
αλεχολυτ
Could somebody please unfreeze the traducir chat?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I can't :(
 
Magisch
Magisch
The workplace has a mod election running
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@g3rv4 hey there! Can you please unfreeze the chat room? Thanks!
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
9:00 AM
@ShadowWizard Already done :P
@Magisch Any nominees yet? There weren't any yesterday evening ;)
 
Magisch
Magisch
@Tinkeringbell me, as of 20 minutes ago
figured I'd give it a shot
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Magisch Fingers crossed!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell oh, thanks! :D
@αλεχολυτ ^^
@Magisch Fingers crossed!
 
αλεχολυτ
αλεχολυτ
@ShadowWizard (^_^)
 
Bookends
Bookends
@Magisch good luck :)
 
Magisch
Magisch
9:06 AM
thanks
 
Derpy
Derpy
morning
 
Bookends
Bookends
Ooo, Stack acknowledge singular they
> Use “their” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun when the gender of the subject is unknown or unimportant. Avoid using gendered terms. -- Grammar and Mechanics
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
I get a feeling that it's been that way for a very, very long time already?
 
Bookends
Bookends
Maybe not "codified" officially?
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
I don't know... I never knew that page existed. But I've also never been addressed by the UI using anything that's not gender neutral.
 
Bookends
Bookends
9:21 AM
Yeah... it's a new(ish) design guideline by Stack Overflow, so it's not that known and important even on SE community...
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Bookends heh, what's that page??
 
Bookends
Bookends
"Stacks", a design guideline, just like "Material" design
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
hmm
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body (197): Which is the best online training institute for SQL by narayana pilli on serverfault.com
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:38 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, body starts with title and ends in url, pattern-matching website in body (390): Neustyle Body Forskolin by EvangelineMorley on wordpress.SE
 
Rob
Rob
It's a good idea, there'll be more consistency.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer (85): How do I pull a backup from a Linux server to my Windows PC using rsync? by LAAL CHAND on serverfault.com
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
 
Bookends
Bookends
While The Workplace is having an election, Freelancing is too :p
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Solution: merge the sites
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
9:49 AM
Hah. I did my first good deed on this team: I introduced a .gitignore file.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (54): Pointless Australia by Kimberley Experiences on math.SE
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
In before you're paid by line and now they'll ask you to compensate them for the files that no longer get uploaded
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body (99): A method for stopping gov. local spyware by East Activist on security.SE
 
Bookends
Bookends
Or adding *.*
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
That, incidentally, is the exact face your file system makes when you ask it to list every file it has
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
9:57 AM
@Tinkeringbell let me guess: first line is Nespresso*.*? ;D
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard *.Nespresso :P
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak dir *.* /s
this reminds me, I deleted 120GB via command line with del *.* yesterday. LOL
(tried via Windows Explorer, it got stuck)
No worry, it was just the Temp folder of Windows. (Production server I didn't touch for years, no idea how it got so big.)
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
There are plenty of valid reasons to delete 120 GB of data all at once, including an inherited porn stash.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SmokeDetector fp-
@JohnDvorak delete such a stash? Why?? :D
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Because you don't watch that stuff?
 
Derpy
Derpy
10:01 AM
and here I was, waiting for this reply...
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I don't? Oh, OK. :P
 
Derpy
Derpy
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol
@Derpy hey! Why me?! @John is to blame. :P
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
I mean, why keep a country music CD when all you listen to is opera?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak oh, now I see. So yes, good point.
 
Derpy
Derpy
10:03 AM
@ShadowWizard he proposed to delete the stash, you wanted to keep it.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
But still, will copy it so some external drive first. Just in case. For science. :D
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@JohnDvorak Sentimental value!
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Derpy instinct
You won't delete MLP episodes stash, right? :)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
I once accidentally wiped the hard drive that held all my crochet patterns :/
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
> You wouldn't delete a car
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
10:05 AM
I recovered the files, but I still need to sort through and rename a lot of them :(
 
Magisch
Magisch
marks the car and hovers over the DEL button you sure?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell ouch...
 
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard and exactly how the two things compare?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell oh, how? Can be useful for me too, in case.... ;)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@JohnDvorak I know a few cars I'd delete, can I do that recursively to get rid of drivers too? :P
@ShadowWizard I sailed a ship to an X marking the spot of some data recovery program ;)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:06 AM
@Derpy falls under same category "Things I like"?
hehe@typo
 
Bookends
Bookends
Looking for artists~
0
Q: Do we have any artists that would be willing to take commissions on the site?

JamesI have some concepts for locations and characters that I would I would like to have drawn. I've sketched things out myself but honestly...not that great at art. From conversations I get the feeling we would have decent demand for artists on the site which got me wondering if we have any that fr...

discussion
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell soon it'll be true, cars won't have human drivers.
Give it 20 years or so.
 
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard what about the "Things I should like" category?
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
@Tinkeringbell Unfortunately not. Cars don't own their drivers, people own cars (and sometimes other people than the owner drive them).
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Maybe only police force will still be allowed to drive cars themselves, otherwise... only autonomous cars.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
10:07 AM
@ShadowWizard I'm not sure I'd trust a computer more with driving than humans :P
 
Derpy
Derpy
@Tinkeringbell I trust the computer. I don't trust the ones programming it to do a good work
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
> What does a programmer have a common with a Volkswagen technichian?

> They both fix bugs for a living.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak too bad the Jokes thread on SO is deleted! :D
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Derpy I don't trust the computer either. Technology can fail too :)
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
We should recreate it
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:10 AM
@JohnDvorak and get suspended? Nah, I'll pass. :)
 
Derpy
Derpy
@Tinkeringbell ethical codes usually fail far before the hardware does.
Therac-25
The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors, it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of...
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
@Derpy Just one case where Asimov's laws would have helped a ton :P
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak need to embed those rules inside the core of any programming language.
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
> I'm sorry Dave, I can't allow you to turn the magnetron full blast. There's a person in there!
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (79): Would Kant choose to sacrifice one life to save another? by Kostas on philosophy.SE
 
Derpy
Derpy
10:13 AM
@SmokeDetector speaking about coincidences
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/q/323824/152859 "abusive, see first paragraph"
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Eh, just edit that word out. Or downvote it to oblivion like you would to any regular rant.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak no, I'd rather nuke it with red flags.
It's rude and offensive.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Mmmm. If it can reasonably be saved with an edit, save the flags for after that is rolled back...
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Oh, I love the smell of declined flags in the morning :D
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
10:18 AM
@Shadow An automated user script added that comment. I deleted it immediately.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): Tell me, how this answer is so "poorly-researched" that warranted an immediate deletion? by Spyware on meta.SE (@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog @ShadowWizard)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Tinkeringbell meh... I'm just pissed off at the OP creating new account to post another rant after the first, which was still somehow legit, got closed.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@JohnDvorak I'll leave them up for just a little while, in case the edit is rolled back.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
You should probably delete the account as a sock puppet, if it is the case
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@ShadowWizard Where's the first?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:20 AM
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog ...
How the script detect what questions to post comment on?
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
What was the comment?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I really don't like scripts posting comments on our behalf all by themselves.
@JohnDvorak the generic welcome comment.
"Welcome to MSE, this question is off topic..."
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
@JohnDvorak A canned comment that I use on site-specific questions advising that it should be asked on the per-site meta instead.
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Yeah, let's not
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
-13
Q: Is stackexchange affiliated with ExpressVPN?

SpywareI'm astonished to see my independent research of some suspicious activities of ExpressVPN product being silently removed from stackexchange. Please look at this question. There are actually two answers, the visible one is from an employee of that product a few years ago; the other is mine posted...

support deleted-answers affiliate
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
10:22 AM
@ShadowWizard Looking now...
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog obviously the same person, but as long as they don't vote for themselves etc, it's legit on its own.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Seems they're having trouble accessing their previous post on MSE?
> (it's a copy from my computer, not exactly the same as in the post, because I can no longer access my own post!)
 
Bookends
Bookends
Posting as a "guest"
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Or that is about the Reddit stuff... Ught.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
@Tinkeringbell In that case, you can contact an employee to merge their account
 
Bookends
Bookends
10:24 AM
cookie gone, etc.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Bookends can't on MSE
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Some rants require a lot of effort to read.
 
Magisch
Magisch
@Tinkeringbell what reddit stuff?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog mods can't merge accounts.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Magisch They mention something on reddit just above that remark
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:25 AM
Most merges are automatic, the rest done by SE staff afaik.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
@ShadowWizard They used to be able to, a few years ago
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog true, but not anymore.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
A long time ago SU used to merge spammers into a single large "deposit" user.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
14
Q: Allow community moderators to merge accounts where one is Unregistered

Mr.WizardCommunity moderators used to be able to merge user accounts but that was removed on the basis of privacy concerns, especially the log-in credentials (as I understand). I am asking for the reinstatement of this feature in the specific case of a merge of an Unregistered into a registered one. In ...

feature-request status-declined moderator-tools merge-accounts
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog yeah, which was then suspended for like 100 years.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
@Shadow Worth mentioning that as at least two people picked the canned site-specific close reason, your custom reason got overridden.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:27 AM
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog all good, my only intention is to have it closed and deleted ASAP.
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
@ShadowWizard Mods would suspend each spammer for some time, then upon merging the suspension periods would be added up. (e.g. merging an account suspended for 3 days into an account suspended for 5 days results in the newly merged account being suspended for 8 days).
@ShadowWizard If ASAP is what you were looking for, selecting the canned reason would take less time than typing up the custom reason.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog the custom reason was to let some steam off
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
In any case, the accounts are not unregistered, cookie-based. I checked both the accounts and both are registered.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog there are no unregistered accounts on MSE
It's possible to post as guest only on some sites, not all.
> You must be logged in to ask a question on Meta Stack Exchange
So if the OP said otherwise, they're lying, plain and simple.
 
Bookends
Bookends
I really need to catch up my meta reading...
@ShadowWizard I believe the "guess" is on InfoSec.SE
I mean, that's what I meant by my previous message
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:33 AM
@Bookends oh
 
Bookends
Bookends
Now that the InfoSec.SE question is protected, bye-bye 1-rep user...
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I wonder what that person got against that company though. Maybe working for a competing company?
 
Magisch
Magisch
or maybe they think they're on the cusp of uncovering a large conspiracy
 
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog
Many of the websites cited by that author as "fraudulent" (e.g. annualcreditreport.com) are in fact legitimate. For instance, that example is actually operated by the U.S. government.
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
They do have a point that a product owner will always say their product isn't crap (unless they're selling cheap fertilizer ofc)
 
Bookends
Bookends
10:39 AM
Paranoid vs paramecium
 
Derpy
Derpy
10:50 AM
@ShadowWizard weird question, but it still shows that either I have some egregious reading compression problems and can't really understand what question are actually about most of the time or we don't care at all about question framing.
 
Magisch
Magisch
@Derpy how do you mean?
 
Derpy
Derpy
Sorry, wrong reply.
Was meant to be about THIS post
31 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard
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Q: Is stackexchange affiliated with ExpressVPN?

SpywareI'm astonished to see my independent research of some suspicious activities of ExpressVPN product being silently removed from stackexchange. Please look at this question. There are actually two answers, the visible one is from an employee of that product a few years ago; the other is mine posted...

support deleted-answers affiliate
@ShadowWizard ^ sorry, did mean to reply to this, not the other one. Thanks to @Magisch for noticing.
@Magisch does my reply make sense now?
 
Bookends
Bookends
The question was supposed to be closed when the mod explicitly said so...
lol, the question got tweeted 1 day ago
 
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