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11:06 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I posted an answer.

And frankly, this is what I'm doing until we get something better

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Hitodama you mean there's a global span { display: block; } rule??? wow

Rob

And I thought I had too many pings today, now I feel privileged; no I don't. In my situation the other person had a competing answer (a little NAA) and trolled my answer. At a half dozen comments they scored themselves a harassment flag. It was at +2 (woo woo) before the trolling, now it's -1 - really no loss and not worth another second of my time. --- Completely different from your situation.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Rob here get another one

Rob

Humor is different from entitlement. I retired last year at 20K, I've enormously cut back and now have nearly double that rep.

@ShadowTheBurningWizard How's your coffee?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Rob long gone, going to make new one actually

Not gone... transformed

Rob

11:18 AM

Haha

As long as there's no green fuzz

Shadow The Burning Wizard

wut

Not green, orange

Rob

Shadow's coffee, on his makeshift table.

Mithical

....that is disgusting.

rene

It is maturing its flavors ...

Rob

At least the cup is clean and Shiney.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

11:28 AM

@Rob reminds me of yesterday's cheese discussion!

Anyhow, that's the orange I meant:

Rob

Yes, @Shadow after drinking that coffee.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Rob Shiney Ahuja?

djsmiley2k in darkness

CUZ I'M SHINEY!

Rob

This shinny:

Pyar ho gaya by stereo nation

►

Mithical

I was a drab little crab once...

Magisch

11:39 AM

@Mithical dab on the drab crab so you can be fab

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Fabby? Long time since he was around. :(

Hitodama

@ShadowTheBurningWizard probably not global but yep, it must be there, somewhere..

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Ouch

Rob

@ShadowTheBurningWizard FabbyRob?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

12:07 PM

@Rob your soulmate?

:P

Fabby, Citizen of this galaxy.

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This one ^

He's awesome cook

Gimby

alien cuisine, yummy

Shadow The Burning Wizard

yup

Rob

12:41 PM

@ShadowTheBurningWizard You mean doppelgänger?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

doppel who?

Mithical

greener

Rob

@ShadowTheBurningWizard er!

Shadow The Burning Wizard

1:00 PM

Not ganger?

Hitodama

1:11 PM

@ShadowTheBurningWizard Hermione?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Hitodama Harry

Mithical

@Hitodama That'd be Granger.

Hitodama

@Mithical I know, but I had to try the joke anyway.

Mithical

doppelgreener ♦

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dnd-4e pathfinder-1e fate-core powers fate dnd-3.5e fate-accelerated

djsmiley2k in darkness

/me wibbles.

Gimby

1:16 PM

Skeletor avatar highly approved

Magisch

doppelgreener isn't enough

needs to be quadruplegreener

Hitodama

in Not a bar, but plays one on TV on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 46 secs ago, by Derpy

@doppelgreener Could you please change your name to doppelgranger? Otherwise my joke won't work because of some "annoying meddling users". :P

Mithical

Annoying and meddling. That's me.

Gimby

"Everyone knows it's Mithical!"

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Mithical scary

Magisch

1:30 PM

@Mithical and would they have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you?

doppelgreener

@Magisch that's the name of the barbershop quartet i'm in

Magisch

@doppelgreener fair enough

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Green enough

Three green avatars next to each other.... adorable... :P

Mithical

four

Rubiksmoose

1:55 PM

@doppelgreener XD

Rob

They are the Barbers of Seville quartet, so three.

Hitodama

2:08 PM

WHAT?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cat has returned!!!!!

bjb568

The cat?

Journeyman Geek

CAT? WHERE?

bjb568

: 3

Journeyman Geek

QUICK! GET THE CATAPULT! BOLSTER THE BALLISTAS! UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR!

(what do you mean, leash laws? We can't have dogs of war on a leash!)

Adrian Mole

UNLEASH => Let Slip

Journeyman Geek

2:11 PM

@AdrianMole is a joke :D

APPARENTLY I am not allowed to launch cats with catapults, despite the name

Adrian Mole

No jokes, please! Stack Exchange is a PROFESSIONAL network!

Hitodama

@JourneymanGeek so you are the Evil Pugomancer. I knew I was right all along.

Adrian Mole

I've just thrown myself out of SOCVR (too many beers)

… and too many dots!

Hitodama

Journeyman Geek

@AdrianMole Chat though :D

@Hitodama naw, I am the terrier that lurks in the night.

Rob

2:13 PM

(ﾐ◕ﻌ◕ﾐ)ฅ

bjb568

Heh, I tried to submit an app but it wouldn't validate saying "invalid key", so I remove that key. Then it successfully uploaded but I got an email saying "missing key in plist". What eventually got it to work is to not have that key in that plist, but to manually add it to some other plist not in the project, but in the compiled output buried somewhere deep in ~/Library/.

Hitodama

@AdrianMole ···🍒···•··· ᗤ ᗣᗣᗣᗣ

bjb568

This whole App Store Connect thing is some dark magic.

Adrian Mole

@Hitodama .-- .... .- - . ...- . .-.

Hitodama

@bjb568 very appropriate: cats have always traditionally been common companion for witches and mages.

Adrian Mole

2:18 PM

unit-conversion.info/texttools/morse-code

Witches burn cats, mages listen to them.

bjb568

🧙

🧙‍♀️

Hitodama

Gimby

@AdrianMole Oh, I'm a wizard.

Adrian Mole

In the sense of a sequence of user-directed, pop-up dialog boxes?

bjb568

Hopefully not in the sense of burning cats.

Adrian Mole

2:23 PM

They aren't mutually exclusive.

JAD

listening to burning cats?

Adrian Mole

Windows has detected a new animal: Cat on Fire. Do you want to (1) search the web for a solution; (2) Call the fire brigade; (3) Buy gasoline?

Gimby

@AdrianMole ... I do popup a lot, but I also spend a lot of time listening to cats. Mostly my own cat.

Adrian Mole

Cool! But remember: The cat owns you - not vice versa.

Gimby

Owns me? The cat is the puppet master.

Adrian Mole

2:28 PM

Ventriloquist cat? I'm impressed, already.

JAD

@AdrianMole gasoline is perfect to make the cat sound like a dog

djsmiley2k in darkness

@AdrianMole WOoooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh YOUR CAT IS ON FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

JAD

throw it on -> WOOOOF.

Adrian Mole

@JAD That's a good (but very poor taste) ole joke!

djsmiley2k in darkness

This got seriously weird tho, lets stap.

Journeyman Geek

2:29 PM

>_>

Not what I was expecting :D

Adrian Mole

Are we exceeding defined 'epsilons'?

... old timer C++ lingo for tolerance.

JAD

@AdrianMole hmm, I know epsilon only as meaning "small number"

5 + epsilon = 5 and a little bit (rounding error)

Tinkeringbell

Woops, sorry.

JAD

:8159275 uhu

Magisch

what!

Tinkeringbell

2:38 PM

I didn't read all of it... apparently people moved on ;)

Adrian Mole

Officially (IIRC) epsilon (ε) is the smallest number such that 1 + ε does not equal 1 (for floating-point types).

Anyway, I need to expand my SE network presence! The science fiction site looks like fun: are many folks here from there?

Tinkeringbell

Never been there. @Mithical might hang around there a bit?

terdon

Based on your profile, @AdrianMole, you might find Bioinformatics interesting.

(The SE site, I mean, not the field in general)

Adrian Mole

The field, in general, pays for my beer! (Whether that defines interesting or not is a whole new can-o-worms, tho!)

Hitodama

@AdrianMole I see someone here knows Dwarf Fortress :P

JAD

2:48 PM

I tried playing dwarf fortress. I didn't really get it

Hitodama

@JAD I doubt someone does :P

Magisch

dwarf fortress felt like chaotic evil older minecraft

terdon

@AdrianMole I assumed as much from your profile, hence mentioning the site :) We're a new beta site, not much activity yet, but some really good people.

"Good" as in knowledgeable. Also good, for all I know, but I can't really judge that.

Adrian Mole

@terdon I already 'signed up' but (as ever in the field) there's a lot of 'omics stuff, which I tend to avoid. But I'll certainly be keeping an eye...

terdon

@AdrianMole Yeah, tell me about it. It's like everyone thinks bioinformatics is synonymous with NGS analysis. Drives me up the wall too. And I actually work in NGS analysis these days!

Tinkeringbell

3:03 PM

@AdrianMole You can always let people know they can ask about other stuff by asking about other stuff :P

JAD

@terdon same with data science tbh

Adrian Mole

I'll try a "How do I get rid of hysteresis in my differential approximation to dynamic, internal carbon dioxide levels?"

… hehe

Tinkeringbell

I don't get it :/

Adrian Mole

Exactly! Nor do I.

Magisch

@Tinkeringbell but do you red it?

because you're a red parrot and that was the best pun I got

JAD

3:07 PM

@Magisch would that help in any way shape or form?

terdon

@AdrianMole Actually, speaking as someone who until very recently was a mod on that site, we'd love such questions. Sadly, I can't promise that we'll have the expertise to answer them, but if you could ask and answer yourself that'd be brilliant! We have very few questions that stray outside basic NGS.

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch Oh, I read it ;)

Adrian Mole

Or: "What's orange and sounds like a parrot?"

Tinkeringbell

@AdrianMole An orange parrot?

Adrian Mole

Very poor: -10!

JAD

3:08 PM

wha?

Gimby

The chat is wonderfully confusing today :)

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[Humor] So You Wanted to be a Product Manager

Scott C Reynolds on January 09, 2020

From the moment you watched Steve Jobs announce the iPhone, you knew what you wanted to do with your life: you wanted to be a product manager. It was such a massive shift in paradigm that you finally understood what “paradigm” really meant. Anyone could launch a product that made life better, you thought, but you wanted to be a true visionary and create things that made life different.

You switched your major from computer science to psychology because you wanted to live in the head of the consumer. When your classmates were all doing summer internships at blue chip companies where they wouldn’ …

Adrian Mole

Confused? You will be!

Magisch

@JAD t'was a lame pun

Thats like having a coworker named ray and then whenever they say something snappy you go "Ray got quite the sting"

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Are there puns in Puna?

@Tinkeringbell only if glowing

Adrian Mole

3:11 PM

I am a master of obfuscation (if I can say so, myself)! But that's why I'm good at my job: the academics know what they want, but can't figure out how to get there. I devise the algorithms and write the code that gets them where they (think they) want to be.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@Gimby not compared to typical olden days in Den

Gimby

@AdrianMole ... so you talk to cats too

Adrian Mole

Of course! And they talk to me.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@AdrianMole this one too?

in Shadow's Den, 47 mins ago, by KennyBOT

Adrian Mole

aaah!

Mithical

3:14 PM

@AdrianMole It can be fun, depending on what you're looking for.

Adrian Mole

Where did you get that cat? Where did you get that cat?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Ask Kenny

cataas.com

Gimby

A google image search also directed me to: nalacat.com/store/nalas-shark-hat

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheBurningWizard Its spelled "Pune"

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oops

Journeyman Geek

3:19 PM

And no. My dad grew up there :D

Shadow The Burning Wizard

And you? ;)

Journeyman Geek

naw

Shadow The Burning Wizard

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Tinkeringbell

Too much cats. Can I have a giant rabbit please? :D

djsmiley2k in darkness

Always watching.

Tinkeringbell

3:28 PM

That's yours, right?

I'm jealous. He? has a strawberry :D

djsmiley2k in darkness

He. yah

Barry.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@djsmiley2kindarkness duplicate!

djsmiley2k in darkness

of?

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Barry eat berries?

:P

djsmiley2k in darkness

Barry'll try and eat anything.

Shadow The Burning Wizard

3:29 PM

@djsmiley2kindarkness you posted same pic before, too lazy to find ;)

djsmiley2k in darkness

I want to build him a new enclosure, cept... don't really know how

@ShadowTheBurningWizard well it's a good pic! :P

Shadow The Burning Wizard

On the other hand, nobody posted this yet!

djsmiley2k in darkness

He's almost hibernating at the mo

Shadow The Burning Wizard

@djsmiley2kindarkness why? Cold?

Magisch

@Tinkeringbell That's an abomination unto the lord

a fluffy abomination I really want to pet and cuddle and call george

djsmiley2k in darkness

3:31 PM

@ShadowTheBurningWizard cooler, yeah

Journeyman Geek

Flemish Giants :D

apparently they're chill buns

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch George would be a good name for when I finally can get my own :)

Shadow The Burning Wizard

Found it!

Oct 15 '19 at 12:48, by djsmiley2k

<-- Angry turtle.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Yep, more chill than smaller breeds.

@djsmiley2kindarkness Like, build a whole tank from scratch?

djsmiley2k in darkness

@Tinkeringbell yeahhhhhhhhhhhh sounds easy, right>? :S

Tinkeringbell

3:32 PM

@djsmiley2kindarkness Not really :P

Magisch

@Tinkeringbell when you get some of them maybe I'll pay you a visit

Tinkeringbell

@djsmiley2kindarkness I have a brother that used to be a zookeeper, I could ask him if I see him tomorrow ;)

djsmiley2k in darkness

He needs a tank to bathe in, but he lives on land.... so it's a interesting problem building something

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch Sure! You'd be more than welcome :)

djsmiley2k in darkness

Need a tank that's all like |___         |
`                               |_____|`

errr

Tinkeringbell

3:33 PM

Yeah, I get the idea... I played zoo tycoon :P

djsmiley2k in darkness

/me gives up :D

yeah something like that.

And needs to be nice and wide.

Journeyman Geek

@Glorfindel that HTaccess question needs a fair bit more TLC :D

I was confused over that - hence the non deletion, Might be a better fit off SO too.

Tinkeringbell

@djsmiley2kindarkness I'd be almost tempted to advise something like this for starters ;)

Rubiksmoose

4:57 PM

Whoever see the spam flag on this it's because it looks to me like it is just an automated scrape of the first paragraph of the question.

Machavity

@Rubiksmoose I went NAA. There's no mischief AFAIK

Rubiksmoose

@Machavity Nothing provable at this point, but could be a bot of some sort. I debated between spam, NAA and custom.

In the end, it'll get removed and that's really all that matters.

rene

5:31 PM

@Rubiksmoose I went with abusive, it is a red flag for me as well.

Tinkeringbell

5:45 PM

Red!!!

Machavity

6:07 PM

@rene It's weird to see Cody without a diamond

djsmiley2k in darkness

/me looks in

@Tinkeringbell lol almost works...

curious

6:33 PM

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→ 20 messages moved to Chimney

→ 2 messages moved to Chimney

Rubiksmoose

♫ Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee ♫

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Travis J

7:13 PM

Is it possible to flag comments on the blog post, like, I don't know, this one ?

Tinkeringbell

@TravisJ I don't think so...

Travis J

I don't either, but I was hoping that a comment in here might raise awareness.

Tinkeringbell

;)

curious

@TravisJ O_o

Hard to believe that's still there hours later!

user400654

err, aren't comments on blog posts approved to be shown?

Travis J

7:27 PM

@curious aaaagree.

Tinkeringbell

@user400654 At least sometimes? I don't know if that's for every blog post or not.

user400654

i know every comment i've left was initially pending

probably just a mistake

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

8:43 PM

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A: Underline Overflow™ in links under answers

Ever look at a line of CSS and think "that seems legit"? I should really stop doing that. The fix is live in production. Thanks for the report!

πάντα ῥεῖ

9:01 PM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog And what?

M.A.R.

2

A: Which badge is the rarest?

Each site has a list of badges with the number of times they've been awarded. Not trying to brag, but on this site, i.e. Meta Stack Exchange, the only badge which is awarded only 1 time is Illuminator. Tenacious and Unsung Hero could theoretically be awarded here but there's too much voting for ...

He's totally bragging!

rene

9:26 PM

yes

Rob

9:51 PM

Bragging that he misses Stella - Question favorited by 100 users.

Troyen

10:14 PM

how do you guys handle links to porn on historically significant locked posts (which can't be flagged)? Looks like a domain expired and was taken over by a porn site. Tried flagging a comment under the post with a custom mod message...but it's on a site where iirc all the mods resigned, and I don't know if SE checks comment flags

user400654

flag and move on, one day it'l be gotten to

Troyen

well, you can't flag posts that are locked for historical significance, there's only a share link

user400654

custom flag something else

Rubiksmoose

@Troyen You could write up something on the Mod Team or ping a CM in here.

Rob

@Troyen Share to here.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:44 PM

69

A: What is a historical lock, and what is it used for?

What is a historical lock? A historical lock is a mechanism by which moderators can mark posts as historical artifacts. Questions which are historically locked feature the following post notice: Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has histo...

> The system prevents you from being able to flag historically-locked posts; this is because these posts have tended to get lots of frivolous flags in the past. Therefore, if you notice a serious problem with a historically-locked post (e.g. a broken link that has since started serving spam or malware, content that is blatantly offensive, or substantiated requests to have a historical lock removed), post a question on the per-site meta explaining the exact problem.

Contacting might work better, since moderators resigned.

Catija

11:44 PM

@Troyen Link?

V2Blast

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@V2Blast brews a cup of passionfruit tea for @V2Blast

Machavity

@Catija A little bird told me to ask if you could take a look at this Meta when you have time

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