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12:10 AM
What's the deal with "13" in JL2210's top network posts?
Post Id is -2147482643 ... looks like something is off by 2**31?
Well it's reassuring to know that the number of posts is limited by 2**31 - 1, max int size.
Double that if negative Ids are used. Although those would probably be the worst posts of all.
 
404
12:59 AM
Meta.SE has none. Way too much singing.
With 1.2m awarded, Yearling is the most common MetaSO badge by orders of magnitude.
It is apparently a misspelling of Yelling.
 
 
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2:31 AM
Speaking of yearling badges.
Looks like I got my tenth today
 
3:28 AM
@404 Seen a lot of meta.SO users with like 4 yearlings but no bronze or gold badges
 
@M.A.R. which is possible
good spread of low upvote posts would do that?
 
Thank you, Traveler Obvious
@JourneymanGeek A lot of them with one -20-something meta post, yeah
 
lol
I need to post something I suspect might be downvoted heavily once this set of shifts is over
since I suspect work is going to be hectic for a bit
 
3:52 AM
@404 aggregator bug is my guess. There are a couple thousand floating around like that.
 
@Shog9 0_0
but but... SE'S Code is perfect! Except when it explodes into a glorious fireball with much gnashing and wailing like a thousand devs cried out all at once and went silent
2
 
Like, there's supposed to be a foreign key there, but... Maybe the thing it was supposed to point to wasn't quite there yet when the record was stored.
That can happen sometimes, since if the aggregator gets busy it runs things backwards
Think: you're accidentally born before your parents
I'm just guessing though
 
4:14 AM
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Q: Strange nonexistent link in a specific user's Top Network Posts

Sonic the Anonymous HedgehogI discovered a strange, blank link in this user's Top Network Posts: The above link and screenshot are of the user's Unix & Linux site profile, but this issue can be reproduced on any of the user's site profiles other than Meta Stack Exchange (as the blank post appears to be on this site, ...

@Shog9 Why are post IDs signed anyway? Why not just store them as unsigned numbers? Are there any posts with negative IDs?
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I suspect the answer is "It seemed like a good idea at the time"
 
Or "they were using Java at the time"
 
naw
I suspect that was never in the roadmap
thankfully
 
I wonder if once positive post IDs run out, will they just move to unsigned 32-bit numbers, or go straight to 64-bit (hopefully unsigned) numbers?
 
I thought Java..Script? with jQuery!
 
4:23 AM
IS that practically likely to happen any time soon?
 
74
Q: Why doesn't SQL Server support unsigned datatype?

RomheinI am specifically thinking about unsigned int. Here is a practical example: what do you do when your identity column maxes out? It's possible to either go BigInt (8 bytes storage instead of 4) or to refactor the application to support negative integers, and even to create your own rules as ind...

 
But the lesson from this bug is... migration sux :(
 
Well, much of my work is in embedded software where you're constrained in memory...but it seems the designers of SQL Server didn't design it to run on those
 
lol
helllllll no
 
MS SQL Embedded Edition!?
 
4:30 AM
But I can see some valid uses to run SQL databases (or servers in general) in embedded applications
 
Well, the obvious answer is to not use SQL Server then...
 
@Feeds Huh, back when I lived in a college dorm, our guidelines unofficially forbade personal Wi-Fi routers, so I configured my network to use a "cryptic" name to avoid getting caught.
(It wasn't in the legal contract signed, but just an unofficial rule caused by complaints of people not being able to connect to the official networks; I quickly resolved that by changing the Wi-Fi channels)
 
4:48 AM
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog oh... I use SO Corp for a VERY clear reason
(That's to say, I call em SO when I'm annoyed with em, and SE when I'm not. Its a subtle distinction but I'm sure you'll wonder)
 
Stack Exchange Overflow
 
@MetaAndrewT. Its like the old thrope of mothers calling their kids By their full names when they're annoyed
"Andrew John Sinclair Murgathrope the Third! Get over here THIS INSTANT!"
 
5:21 AM
@Shog9 The 4.0 licenses were crafted so that one wouldn't have to "port" the license to every copyright jurisdiction to specially craft it to the copyright laws there.
 
5:59 AM
@M.A.R. I once answered a rather peculiar question on the badge earning topic: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/350887/578411
 
6:26 AM
I'm still bewildered by those users who ask a legitimate (and reasonably good) question, then deleting their own account soon after, leaving the question ownerless...
 
@MetaAndrewT. Why so?
Deletes account
 
@MetaAndrewT. I suspect that's a different beast, possibly akin to access
 
@M.A.R. reasonably good and "Why so?" doesn't fit that criteria. Account deletion denied.
 
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
 
7:11 AM
batch of two: calendar printer, and recsys @Bart @rene @Sonic @Glorfindel
 
7:31 AM
Facepalm
 
7:50 AM
Na-palm
 
8:12 AM
@M.A.R. is it?
 
8:23 AM
Palmtree
 
@ShadowTheDragonWizard both gone (not voted on)
 
@rene bird and Glor
 
8:56 AM
@Tinkeringbell hey now, my passport states otherwise!
 
@Bart "Nationality: Glasses"
 
@Bart Hey! Nice to see you again :) How's life?
 
Too busy. :D But other than that okay
 
9:33 AM
@Bart Good busy, or bad busy?
 
I'm curious about the normal bounty...
 
At least it has a normal bounty text.
 
@Tinkeringbell eh, a bit of both. And dealing with project partners who don't do their jobs or don't do it on time. Always fun. :)
 
Urf... yeah, that sounds fun :/
 
9:48 AM
@Bart So that's what group projects in school prepares you for....
 
Quick, get a teacher!
 
Pretty much. It's really no different. Just the assumption that you're dealing with professionals.
 
10:31 AM
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog gone
 
404
11:18 AM
@M.A.R. Yearling uses main site reputation (unlike some other badges like Mortarboard, which use the hidden meta rep). One does not need any meta activity to have a lot of them, beyond one visit to create a meta account.
Morning... Are we sufficiently outraged already?
Brewing coffee in case not.
 
12:15 PM
 
12:40 PM
Great now I need a zombie version of that...
 
12:56 PM
I'm Hungary...
 
Hi Hungary, I'm dad.
 
Hi da...woaAaAaAhh!!
 
Nooooo!
 
@MetaAndrewT. Gotcha!
 
 
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2:40 PM
@Tinkeringbell hey Gary!
Are you hun?
 
No, this is Patrick!
 
2:59 PM
pun flying over head
 
bun digging under feet
 
404
3:20 PM
A bun? Is it small?
 
I mean, it's pretty famous...
 
3:37 PM
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
 
if you want it to be ...
 
...
sorry, I lost The Game...
 
4:31 PM
 
404
5:07 PM
@Feeds Anything is possible on Zombocom. The only limit is yourself.
 
5:17 PM
@MetaAndrewT. damn... I lost the game
 
5:30 PM
.... I just lost the game too
 
the only way to win is not to play
chess, anyone?
 
Sure...
Have a chess.com account? I'm out of practice, but I'd be down for a game :P
 
404
The only winning move is to train a neural network to play for you.
We used to have some lichess enthusiasts in here.
 
Uni..
 
404
Unihedron, and ...
Someone from Charcoal, username begins with f.
 
5:39 PM
not vogel, I think...
 
404
ferrybig
The names nearly lost to history.
Aug 13 at 23:56, by Unihedron
I visit today to bring you a blast from the past
Oh, and it was ProgramFOX, not ferrybig.
f in the middle
 
and not vogel, I think...
oh, maybe not lichess
Oct 17 '14 at 14:37, by Frank
@Vogel What's your name on Chess.com?
 
@ArtOfCode wait, you can't not play
as soon as you know about it, you're playing it
and you can't stop playing it
or at least that's how I remember it
 
You are forever trapped in the Game's loving embrace. There is no escape. There is only the Game.
 
The Game is a mental game where the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation of The Game, the whole world, or all those aware of the game, are playing it all the time. Tactics have been developed to increase the number of people aware of The Game and thereby increase the number of losses. == Gameplay == There are three commonly reported rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (This is alternatively...
I did not misremember
 
404
5:50 PM
"The Game" is the 106th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the sixth episode of the fifth season. Riker returns from a vacation on Risa with a game that he is eager to share with the crew. The game is psychotropically addictive, and it quickly turns the Enterprise crew into a mind-controlled pawn of the Ktarians, who are using the devices to gain control of Starfleet. After Data (who, as an android, is unaffected by the game) is incapacitated, only visiting Starfleet Academy cadet Wesley Crusher and young engineering ensign Robin Lefler stand...
This is what it reminds me of.
And I'm not entirely happy to be reminded of that.
 
@JNat I actually used to have a mental filter around that
 
oh?
 
404
May 12 '15 at 17:02, by ASCIIThenANSI
I googled lichess and I ended up at the Wikipedia page for leeches. : |
 
@JNat I literally would not notice...
 
@Mithrandir We used to play that, but with Pink elephants. Way more fun :P (And I just lost XD)
 
6:08 PM
@Tinkeringbell o0
 
@JourneymanGeek I guess it makes a bit easier to play than just calling it 'a game'? For little kids...
 
Ah
Like don't think of a monkey when you take your meds?
 
@JourneymanGeek Eh, that one is new to me?
 
...huh?
 
Is that so you think of a monkey and not of taking the meds?
Because then it's different.
 
6:16 PM
what!?
 
This was just to kill time on long car rides in a very annoying way.
Together with 'I'm going on holiday and I'm taking with me...'
 
"Don't forget to bring yourself!"
 
@Tinkeringbell Oh, we'd just sing this ad over and over again. Sometimes switching the position of the "kids" and "cars".
 
@Tinkeringbell it's a.story - so this guy gets told 'don't think of monkeys when you take this medicine'
So every time he did he thought of monkeys
 
@Mithrandir Oof that's an annoying one. We had youtube.com/…, about a fish in an aquarium that was really happy to live there :P
 
6:20 PM
So when it didn't work, the quack doctor he went to said 'you thought of monkeys didn't you?'
 
oh, similar to WP:BEANS...
 
That translates poorly
 
I think it's officially the most annoying ad ever.
 
@MetaAndrewT. So then I'm bringing myself, and a toothbrush. Your turn!
@JourneymanGeek Hahaha it works well enough :D
Hadn't heard that one before :)
 
Too bad, I'm bringing my dream... good night! :p
 
6:22 PM
Night
Working the upside down shift ;p
 
@Tinkeringbell ....what did I just listen to. (I mean, the "blup" part was catchy....)
 
@Mithrandir Fishes going blub :P
And singing they're so happy in their aquarium :)
@MetaAndrewT. Sleep well!
So, myself, a toothbrush, a dream... who's next? :D
(Oh, btw, the game requires that you repeat everything, everytime :P)
 
"Nothing, mom, I'm just listening to commercials for aquariums in a language I don't understand, listening to fish go 'blub'."
 
@Mithrandir It's... not really a commercial for aquariums. It was on a CD you could save up for at a supermarket XD
 
See? I don't speak the language :P
 
6:26 PM
But say hi to your mom for me? :D
@Mithrandir Maybe @Bart or @rene will appreciate the song a bit more :)
But yeah... the 'blup' part is addictive XD
 
blub
 
You're an aquariumflower now?
 
I have made an astounding discovery! The new species of "Blurry fish-flower"!
(flish?)
 
@Mithrandir blurbbly-flower :P
 
That makes more sense...
 
 
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404
8:57 PM
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