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Rob

12:47 AM

Watch what you say about Klingons.

Undo

3:59 AM

Any bored devs floating around? Need to verify cause of a hard HProxy block

Shog9

@Undo first question: how are you asking that question?

Undo

@Shog9 As in "knowing about HProxy"?

Stalking Nick on Twitter

Anyway, if it's fast for you to look, I'm betting the block for 54.236.78.156 is from a bunch of really fast requests to api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/<nnn>/associated starting at around 02:00Z

HAProxy, I guess. Close.

Shog9

No, I assumed you'd banned yourself. Then I remembered it doesn't affect chat. It's late

Undo

I figure that's what it has to be when I start getting HTML responses from the API

Shog9

Wait, you're API banned?

Yeah... If you ignore backoff, you will be banned for a while

Go take a nap

Undo

4:06 AM

yeah, know how most of that works. What bugs me is that I think I know what caused it (nightly diamond check for Charcoal autoflag processes), but that code has been the same since forever

It was written to respect the backoff, but there's a (kinda) edge case where it doesn't.

So fixing that, but we should have hit this like a year ago

Shog9

Ton of requests for associated users

Undo

sweet, thanks

Shog9

Can dig more when back at PC, don't feel like writing sql on phobe

Phone

And that's why

Undo

Nope, that's good enough for me. Thanks :)

aw, come on, you don't have the SQL variant that accepts "sekect logs.8 form Ogs"?

Shog9

need swype for SQL

you're still hitting the API, btw.

Undo

4:17 AM

on /associated?

Expect some hits on some other routes, they don't know they've been blocked

Shog9

you were making 10-20 requests per second earlier (for 11 seconds - then you were banned)

Undo

how the heck did that not happen a year ago

Shog9

@Undo naw, most recent requests were to posts//revisions

Undo

yep, expected

The /associated ones are from a 02:00Z job, it'd be long dead by now. And fixed to never do that again

Shog9

cool

it's been entirely too quiet tonight. I say we blame this on the GPS rollover thing

Undo

4:24 AM

huh, that's kinda cool. Didn't hear about that

Shog9

Are you making two identical requests for revision history back to back?

Undo

Shouldn't be. Doesn't show up in my logs that way

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

@Catija Ah, now I understand. The image that shows up in the bottom right on chat rooms parented to a given site is the same image that shows up in oneboxes. (Which means weirdness for stackexchange.com and partially for Meta, since theirs are white.)

Journeyman Geek

5:54 AM

@Shog9 Its a weekends. Also I got home from work, then promptly fell asleep.

Journeyman Geek

6:05 AM

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That's better

Shadow Wizard

That's butter

Get Answer Wizard

6:21 AM

That's bitter

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

6:32 AM

That's batter

rene

That's wrecked, train wise ...

Get Answer Wizard

6:51 AM

Let's keep an eye out to this Area 51 Discussion post!

1

Q: Let's keep an eye out to this proposal!

Proposal: Ontology Network The owner of the proposal failed to create Ontology Blockchain proposal and he came back; seems like more prepared. What should we do, now? Skip it?

technology

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

Eyeballs are gross

Journeyman Geek

They can be humourous.

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

Well, only British

Or Shrek if you're Eddie Murphy

rene

8:02 AM

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Get Answer Wizard

Meanwhile...

33

Q: How can a tag badge for 👾 be tracked?

While viewing a user's profile, I found that the next tag badge being tracked is the bronze 👾 badge. There is not even a 👾 badge, and I don't understand how or why this is possible. So, uhh, what's the deal with this? Is it intentional behavior?

support tags tag-badges

(it's also started to get ab used on other sites)

Magisch

Morning on a saturday

rene

Morning \o

Eleeza

8:59 AM

Hey, what's this "happy hour" thing I just got a notification for?

Tinkeringbell

@Eleeza Long over :P

Eleeza

?

Tinkeringbell

Happy hour is every Friday night when I'm asleep :P

It's a chat event, though I haven't seen many people observe it lately.

Eleeza

Oh ok

Could that be because of timezones? After all this is the internet

Tinkeringbell

@Eleeza Probably ;)

Nov 16 '18 at 20:19, by Catija

Happy hour in here is generally dead.

rene

9:08 AM

You have to bring your own booze and I forgot

Tinkeringbell

@rene One benefit of having a now 18 year old brother: We're never out of booze.

rene

Ha, some benefits.

Tinkeringbell

He also has a drivers license and a car, so I have another person to drive me places :D

though that's going to be fixed soon hopefully.

rene

@Tinkeringbell then you can get you own booze ... don't consume it until back home ...

Tinkeringbell

right!

Journeyman Geek

10:46 AM

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M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

11:31 AM

@GetAnswerWizard Is Pikachu implying that aliens can't program?

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard that seems xenophobic

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

Extraterroxenomorphophobic

Get Answer Wizard

12:16 PM

Phobophiliphobic?

Bart

@rene meh, having a little confidence drink before driving never hurt anyone ... except drivers, passengers and innocent bystanders.

rene

right ... :D

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

-3

Q: How to join these smoothly

So I have a problem with joining these smoothly, and as a practice I want to learn this in general. So, how to join it?

discussion

Let me adjust my spine so I can fit smoothly

Wait, it's actually about whatever the image is, not SE

rene

I have no spine

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

12:33 PM

You probably have an ovary though. Close enough.

66

Q: Are the Stack Overflow mugs dishwasher or microwave safe?

I was recently sent a Stack Overflow mug. It's the nice big one with the code snippet about filling it with coffee on the back: Is this mug dishwasher or microwave safe? I didn't receive any information about that with the swag drop. I'm assuming no for now.

support swag

But how are you going to drink coffee while it's in the dishwasher?

rene

Well, for the coffee at work you'll not notice the difference ...

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

BTW, any new news on the new CEO while I was away?

Or is it a 6–8 weeks thing?

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

delv-pls one-moree-delete-vote-needed 2k+ meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/64030

rene

@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard it has to be

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

@Tinkeringbell It was originally created to test out the then-new chat event feature, and then stuck around

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

12:41 PM

@rene Well of course, but I wanted to know if there was any news on which phase we're in now/were when the announcement was posted

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

The 6-8 weeks phase

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

@SonictheWizardWerehog Happy hour? I don't remember it to be there THAT long

IIRC it was created as an excuse to be around and say happy things when things were a bit down (don't remember why, but 2016 was full of shitty moments anyway)

It worked, and people said happy things

rene

happy

M.A.R. The Chemical Wizard

Now it mostly serves as an email reminder to visit this chat when I've closed the tab for too long

@rene no u

Catija

1:35 PM

@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard more likely 6-8 months.

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard no

user302202

3:38 PM

> Well, I'm sure we all know the stereotype: as a programmer, you sit near-motionless at a desk for 23 hours a day, covered in cheetos dust and bed sores, until exhaustion overtakes you and you fall to the floor and briefly sleep (wherein "sleep" consists of convulsing while sweating out Mountain Dew and soiling yourself). And of course, as the stereotypical programmer, you never shower... Though you do have an impressive collection of cologne and deodorant spray given as gifts by co-workers who thought they were being subtle.

user302202

Unfortunately, despite such an elaborate setup, the question did not generate much discussion.

user302202

<- morning, after stationary bike

user302202

Joel gave his first interview to Israeli media (Google translate works okay, although the site name becomes Stack-Overplowe or Stack-Overfelow)

rene

Stack Overplow is accurate

user302202

The translated interview reminds me of Star Wars novels with their mangled nouns.

user302202

3:50 PM

> from there several successful spin-ups (such as Stack-Oberplow and Tarlow) were launched. "We developed different products at Foggrick

Get Answer Wizard

Slack Powerflow

user302202

Google Translate does not help with charts :((

user302202

> The most active programmer in the Stack-Overfloo community is John Scythe. He works at Google London

2

user302202

> It's been 10 years and we've tried to educate the whole world to stop thanking you

user302202

I want to teach the world to vote in perfect harmony.

user302202

4:03 PM

Looks like a fresh picture from SO HQ but I can't read the whiteboard... Could be some D&I event?

user302202

> You have to stay on Facebook for as many hours as you can, and to do that you need angry people and anger and clicks that can be produced by the torch, and that's what makes the result.

rene

@AskQuestionWizard with those circles it is more like a new episode of Startrek

user302202

My blog is suddenly big in Japan... (found the tweet after a traffic spike).

Get Answer Wizard

tried with waifu2x, but...

didn't really help, aside of "Talent" and "bundle"

user302202

Looks like some marketing strategizing.

user302202

4:33 PM

Note, the meta site is far more antagonistic than the main. Don't worry on your downvoted and closed question, it only represents the general attitude of the MSO community, but not the attitude of the sane readers of the future. Furthermore, the votes what you get on the MSO, don't affect your reputation, and practically there is no automatic post ban here. — peterh 2 hours ago

user302202

Sane readers of the future, unite and take over the meta.

ocæon

5:08 PM

@GetAnswerWizard i.postimg.cc/VvjmcSfT/2737274333derp.png fix 4 u

yah not much better unless you already have more context from the diagrams

ocæon

5:48 PM

should have done it from your waifu2x version, it's a really effective tool!

user302202

6:11 PM

No autoflag even with all those reasons? Something seems wrong.

user302202

Ah... metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/flagging A lot of failures.

user302202

Something went insane on April 2.

user302202

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 7 hours ago, by Makyen

Autoflagging and some other MS actions don't work right now. This will be the case for an unknown period of time, but probably less than 24 hours. More information: short version; long version

Mithrandir

6:59 PM

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Magisch

7:32 PM

Parrot flowers in minecraft :D

user312109

9:09 PM

All my answers where deleted in EE?

ArtOfCode

@Muze let's not start another debate about how unjust SE is to you, please

Anticom

9:55 PM

Hello folks. I just read a really good answer on SO and aked myself whether there was a mechanism on SO to not onfly flag posts or answers as spam but as well-written or very-helpful to award the author

Or is this covered by upvoting posts or answers since you're gaining rep with every upvote?

Mithrandir

Yeah, that's what upvotes are for. In addition, there's also the bounty system, which you can use to award some of your own reputation to the author of the answer.

Anticom

Thanks

Journeyman Geek

11:56 PM

@Anticom upvotes. bounties and sharing offsite I guess.

or what Mith said ;p

stares at coffee YOU HAD ONE JOB. ONE. JOB.

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