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Rob
Rob
12:00 AM
@Luuklag Here's something certain to cause controversy:
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Q: Are emojis, fonts, etc. allowed in post titles here on PSE?

risky mysteriesIt has been pretty clear on other sites that eye-catching pixels, like emojis and arbitrary fonts, shouldn't be placed in a post title, and if they were encountered in the title of a post, they should be edited out. However, I'm not sure how strictly that rule applies to Puzzling Stack Exchange, ...

discussion editing title
 
Feeds
Feeds
 
Rob
Rob
12:24 AM
@JuanM It is a reported bug, for anyone interested: meta.stackexchange.com/q/306819/282094
 
 
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Ryan M
Ryan M
5:08 AM
 
 
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rene
rene
8:16 AM
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Luuklag
Luuklag
@JNat the backlog is getting there. Cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20743789/ralph-wulf
@Rob Well I find the answer to that very valid. Should those appear in HNQ, well I don't know. They are as much clickbait as a photo contest is
 
 
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Νеvеrꭑoꭇе
Νеvеrꭑoꭇе
10:23 AM
apparently... neither Edge nor Chrome are able to debug typescript code that makes use of async/await correctly
will have to try Firefox dev edition. Anyway... out of curiosity, anyone else noticed this?
just to give you an example of how weird this is... 
debugger;
alert("test");
debugger;
the alert gets executed, yet neither of the two debugger instructions trigger a breakpoint in the dev toolbar...
 
rene
rene
probably because the async stuff is on another "thread/event loop" and the debugger only knows how to stop the main event loop?
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
note to self, protect worksheetnames the next project I use this spreadsheet
 
rene
rene
10:40 AM
Yeah. I don't let users near the stuff I make. If they touch it, they break it.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Just give them Lego or Play-doh; and let them figure it out themselves ;)
 
rene
rene
Oh, I'm going to try that.
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@rene It was a reporting sheet. But some decided to be funny and change the name of the worksheet from "Input 1" to some random garbage. So now my script that looks for "Input 1" breaks everytime It doesn't find it.
Kinda painfull when there are about 1k workbooks to proces
 
rene
rene
Yeah, that ... is sub-optimal
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Luuklag I mean, that is a funny thing to try XD
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
10:43 AM
watches as users accidentally invent cold fusion, cause an EMP, and knock everything out
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Hire that person as a tester ;)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Ah, but it never happens on purpose
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@Tinkeringbell nah they were just making things easier on themselves I guess. Its a sheet filled by external contractors.
Luckily I set up a breakpoint now, so anytime it finds a missing "Input 1" it just pauses, I can change the name, and let it continue
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Pfft :)
Manual work XD
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
I estimate there are only 20 or so sheets from that company, so faster then writing new code for it
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
10:50 AM
Ah, okay. Only 20 is manageable ;)
But what are you going to do if someone else does it too? Or next year, when those 20 turn up with the same mistake again? ;)
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
Not hire that company again ;)
Or find a way to protect sheetnames as well
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Hahaha
 
rene
rene
@Luuklag yeah ... still ... if you visit that link you can also download tools called keylogger. Not sure how trustworthy it is ....
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@rene well its pretty much WYSIWYG, so your stupid if you download that
 
rene
rene
11:07 AM
@Luuklag sure. I annotated the MS record for that report. If that site pops-up later in a less charitable way we have some evidence to track back.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
11:53 AM
@Luuklag Gotta love the Dutch way of saying things
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@M.A.R. thanks I guess ;)
 
 
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rene
rene
4:04 PM
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Feeds
Feeds
4:41 PM
Strangeworks is on a mission to make quantum computing easy…well, easier
Medi Gwosdz on February 18, 2021
To move this technology forward, the tools and platforms surrounding it must become more accessible.
 
Rob
Rob
5:02 PM
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Q: Introducing Outdated Answers project

Anita TaylorIn our blog post last month on our Community & Public Platform strategy & roadmap for Q1 2021, we announced an initiative to address outdated answers on Stack Overflow. Today, I'll give you more information on our approach and how we will solicit your feedback. Why outdated answers? Why now? Find...

discussion product-discovery answers answer-quality
The MSO announcement is a much better read than the short blurb on MSE.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
5:36 PM
Sure, but posting all of the MSO stuff on MSE would be weird too, so this works :)
 
Rob
Rob
5:58 PM
I can see why it came to MSE, doing an all site search on the answer-quality tag (with the exception of page two) turns up 18 pages of MSE first, before any other results - despite being SO focused there's been a lot of non-SO spillage; as this comes to additional sites in the future the MSE post is likely to be updated (with the fittings for some of the other sizes).
 
 
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Luuklag
Luuklag
7:36 PM
Argh 20:30 on a thursday night and the mailserver dies :/
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
That's a subtle hint. STOP WORKING
Go take a shower, read a bedtime story for the kids, enjoy a good glass of wine and then go to bed, like a responsible adult.
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@Tinkeringbell Meh wish I could. Need to rewrite an article from a journalist and finish a proposal today
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
that's a whole lot of work to still do at 20:41
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
Yup, crazy times last week
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Do you at least get more free time at other times?
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
7:41 PM
In theory yes
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
... Make it practice.
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
Yeah usually during summer break ;)
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Well that's as good a time as any..
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
No its just that my co-workers mother is Ill, and just out of the blue there are 2 people sending us request for a quote
and a third person just follows up on a quote i gave them sept '19
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Ah ugh. Well hopefully you can keep all three (possible) customers satisfied :| As I remember, chances of getting someone to fill in are non-existent?
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
7:48 PM
@Tinkeringbell yup, also he is a very senior colleague, so not going to happen. I hope his mother isn't sick for too long
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
.... that's a sentence that lends itself very well to some inappropriate joke :P
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
From what I heard him say he doesn't have very high hopes for a positive outcome
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Yikes XD Well that makes your remark accurate then ;)
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
Well at least I know why the mailserver is dead
They were migrating it at 19:00
shouldnt take more then 15 mins they emailed the director at 14:30 this afternoon..
 
rene
rene
8:05 PM
They mailed at 19:45 that it will take till 23:00 to get stuff solved
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@rene probably, but usually they are pretty reasonable guys.
 
Jason C
Jason C
8:37 PM
lol
i can't believe i'm so out of the loop that i didn't even know joel was gone @rene
does whats her name chipps still work there
 
rene
rene
Yep.
 
Jason C
Jason C
ah well. how's it going?
how bout that pandemic? lol...
 
Machavity
Machavity
@JasonC And she's still the head CM (waves at Sara)
 
rene
rene
@JasonC it is locked down ;)
 
Jason C
Jason C
i haven't been to my office in a year, lol. actually i haven't even seen it. we were literally supposed to move all 300 people at that branch into a new building the day after the lockdowns first started. good times. our IT people were in hell for like 2 weeks.
 
rene
rene
8:48 PM
I've been three times at the office during summer and 4 times to a customer location for a meeting. that was it. The rest on Teammeetings. You can recognize me in any teammeeting, I'm the one with the webcam off.
 
Jason C
Jason C
so was dev ops. our source control servers were only internally accessible, and they were about 25% through migrating everything to an outside-accessible service, nice relaxed schedule, then suddenly the pandemic hit and all the devs had to work from home, and they had to skip all the pilots and testing and accelerate the schedule by like two months.
lol; yeah. so much teams.
i'm the one chain smoking during the entire meeting.
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
@rene I hosted some meetings during the summer, but that was also pretty much it for me.
Now it all Teams, Zoom, and those annoying things the gov't has to use
 
Jason C
Jason C
DnD over zoom isn't quite the same either
 
rene
rene
@JasonC LOL
 
Jason C
Jason C
i think my favorite pandemic-induced activity so far was when my friends and i started a betting pool on who could get the highest covid nasal swab insertion depth.
which made for some hilarious dr office visits. "doc can you do me a favor; first tell me how long the swab is, and second, can you hold your finger at depth after you take it out and pose for a pic? long story. don't ask."
 
rene
rene
8:56 PM
:D
 
Jason C
Jason C
also i pissed off our IT department by working around our 2fa and recording a pound key tone as my voicemail message, which took the better part of a day to figure out. that was fun too. fsv "fun".
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
good one
I once broke our entire CRM by pushing a single button. They had to hire a dev to bring it back to live
Now we moved away from our custom system to some off the shelf online thing that is way expensive
 
Jason C
Jason C
LOL my single button moment was when i accidentally disabled the firewall and killed our remote connection to a computer that was literally 300 feet off the ground in a concrete tower in the middle of sf bay.
the consequence there was closing 2 lanes of traffic + $30k in closure fees and labor. not my finest moment.
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@JasonC Be nicer
 
Jason C
Jason C
i was nicer. i didn't write what i was actually thinking. :P
anyways nice chatting guys i'll try to pop by more often. gotta get back to work. \o
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
8:59 PM
@JasonC Well lying is bad too :P
 
Jason C
Jason C
haha
 
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Hope to see you again :)
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
9:27 PM
Who thought these ugly blue banners were a good idea everytime you take a curating action....
They talk all about supporting curators, but they just annoy me (/us) in this way
 
Luuklag
Luuklag
9:45 PM
Well that's work for today. cya guys, going to have weekend (hopefully)
 
rene
rene
enjoy!
 

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