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2:15 AM
I may be paying far too much attention to the close details of Aaron's demo video/the screenshots provided, but now I've noticed some stuff, I can't stop :P Catija's profile is used for the demo, but I don't recognise the pfp from any of her accounts. Additionally, she doesn't have 32k rep anywhere and the Q+A numbers don't match. She has visited 429 consecutive days, but hasn't been seen since 2018; she's also a member of a Collective that doesn't exist (AudioBubble).
The About text used for "Jarrod Dixon" appears to be an answer about git on SO, and, as with Cat, the pfp and stats shown a
I really want to know where the profiles/screenshots/etc. came from now :P
 
@Dudecoinheringaahing they have placeholder accounts with staff (current and emeritus) and a few familiar user names for dev I think
 
@Dudecoinheringaahing Oh, and her top tag is , but the site shown is SO
@JourneymanGeek Oh yeah, I'm sure that they aren't the actual accounts. I just find the stats and the stuff that doesn't "fit" to be weirdly interesting :P
The rep/Q&A counts are minor things, but the "429 consecutive days, last seen 2018" and the "top tag is , but site shown in SO" are much more interesting
 
@Dudecoinheringaahing from dev.stackoverflow.com ?
 
 
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@Feeds Building a better onebox platform
 
5:21 AM
@Dudecoinheringaahing It's because it's been since 2018 that he downloaded the data to populate his local instance.
That avatar is Bennett before I had Gus, so when he's only 2, if that. Once I had Gus, they both started appearing in my profile image.
32k reputation is what I had mid-2018 here on MSE and those question and answer counts are likely current at the time.
So, he's using MSE data on the SO site theme.
What's pfp?
 
5:54 AM
@Catija ProFile Picture, I guess
 
6:37 AM
@Spevacus thanks. If the 'Confirm' button doesn't work for the reason you saw, the Cancel and Close buttons won't work either. I had those issues during development when I decided to use GM.xmlHttpRequest (that seems to introduce some kind of sandboxing which I never noticed) but they were gone once I used good old jQuery.
Do you get that error every time you use the script, or only in some instances?
 
 
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8:06 AM
If Nick Craver is leaving, then who gets the blame if SE stops working? Has the company come up with a list? I don't want to live in uncertainty - I demand to know whose fault would it be when it comes to it.
 
@VLAZ WHEEL... OF.... FORTUNE BLAME!
 
@JourneymanGeek But that will be random. There should be a designated person, so we don't have to guess.
 
@VLAZ If I remember correctly - when Jeff left, he kinda said 3 people would be sharing what he used to do - Tim, Shog and Nick....
and it was a smaller company then, and we need to be equal opportunity about blame :D
If that fails...
wheels out a 200 foot tall chart with lots of red string...
 
8:31 AM
Sooo... in today's episode of questions that need answering before I can work: Swiss researchers calculate pi to new record of 62.8tn figures
> Researchers were waiting for the Guinness Book of Records to certify their feat. Until then they have revealed only the final 10 digits they calculated for pi: 7817924264.
How would the Guinness Book of Records certify that?!
Just run another supercomputer for 108 days?
Spend decades just checking all the numbers manually?
 
Probably verify the math behind it
 
Yeah but how do you verify math?
 
Well - you have someone look at the algorithm, and methodology, and compare it to the last known number and....
 
Meh, that'd be some weak evidence... The only thing you can check the algorithm against is previous known numbers, and there were apparently a lot less of those... what if there's a mistake in previous ones? What if anything after 3.14 has always just been people making up random numbers?!
 
Pi is really 3 and we have been lied to all along
 
8:40 AM
Fun fact - we don't actually need more digits of Pi. There is research to get more but that's only done for the sake of researching new techniques, not because we get benefit from more digits of Pi. The value of the research is the research itself.
 
Who knows, it may not even be 3 but 42.
 
@VLAZ why do we even need more digits of Pi?
:D
 
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Q: Do We Need the Digits of $\pi$?

J126I was reading today that someone found $\pi$ to the ten trillionth digit. Whenever I read that $\pi$ has been calculated to more digits, I ask myself whether this is useful. I know that there are conjectures out there about distributions of numbers in $\pi$ and such. So, I supposed knowing mor...

> Practically, one needs only 39 digits of π to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to the size of a hydrogen atom.
 
So uh...
 
Well hopefully those supercomputers have any use besides being super...
 
8:43 AM
its the scientific equivilent of compensating?
 
@Tinkeringbell They can play Doom
 
@Tinkeringbell they could calculate nuclear weapons designs... so they could D00M US ALL
 
@VLAZ Call me back once they can calculate world peace :)
 
@Tinkeringbell Should take 6-8 more digits of Pi.
 
@VLAZ Should've just let the algorithm run for an hour more then.
 
9:29 AM
@Tinkeringbell There are lots of different ways to calculate pi. In fact, there are various infinite families of pi algorithms. Admittedly, they're mostly just different ways of calculating the area or perimeter of a circle, but pi pops in various situations that aren't obviously connected with the circle, eg the bell curve formula.
It's (usually) fairly routine algebra to verify that an algorithm does actually compute pi. That can be tedious, although computer algebra systems can help with that. To do a record-breaking pi calculation, you need an algorithm that converges quickly. And you need good algorithms for basic arithmetic operations. There's an art to multiplying trillion digit numbers efficiently.
 
Rob
😋🍰
 
There are fairly simple pi algorithms that converge quite quickly... but they get a bit slow if you want more than 10000 digits. Here's an example I posted a few years ago: stackoverflow.com/a/26478803/4014959
 
@Rob 🍕 also
 
@PM2Ring That does look rather simple, yeah. I think I get it, at least XD
 
For some reason, I want to get a pizza now...
 
9:45 AM
Just had one last weekend, I'm good for the month XD
 
There is the problem - I haven't had pizza this month.
 
Time to go correct that then :P
 
I know. But I'll have to wait until Friday. The pizza place near me has 50% discount then.
 
Oh well, Friday will be here soon enough ;)
 
10:17 AM
Pi program, using an algorithm by Dutch mathematician / computer scientist, Dik T. Winter. It's not very fast, but it only uses integer arithmetic.
 
10:57 AM
"Nick Craver is departing Stack".... any chance to link to the departure post on MSE, and change to something like "Farewell, Nick and thanks for all the fish!" like the title @Journeyman chose wisely? ;) (Better edit this message so it would preserve the stars)
Anyway wanted to share something pretty crazy.... I went down from 8 cups of coffee per day to only 2, and thus far it's going better than expected. Harder part is to stops snacking around, but trying this too. Had some weird stomach issue few days ago, something I didn't have before, so took this as a sign from my body.
 
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 If @Mithical is ok I'd do it. I don't want to step on their feet
 
@JourneymanGeek you're too kind! :P
 
11:18 AM
I don't mind
 
Rob
> "There are lots of different ways to calculate pi", and pizza.
 
@VLAZ here they do it on Sunday
(Pizza Domino, think it's global company)
 
@Mithical @ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 done
 
Usually it's either this (fixed discount on all menu) or having additions on the pizza for free.
@JourneymanGeek thanks!
 
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Oh, my pizza place does it Friday-Sunday if you go in person. But Friday is just the closest day.
 
11:30 AM
@VLAZ nice!
Kids might get pizza today as bonus for helping with the little one who is in quarantine due to COVID exposure...
(we're all negative, but still one week quarantine is required for the one who came in contact with a positive COVID person)
 
Rob
My dentist recommends Dominoes pizza:
 
@Rob Hmm, I'd ask 9 other dentists first. Maybe they'll agree your dentist is a psychopath.
 
Rob
Perhaps those should practice psychology instead of dentistry.
[Truck starting sound]
 
"9 out of 10 psychologists agree that eating a pizza made from domino pieces is bad for you"
 
@VLAZ psychopizza!
@Rob beware the tunnel
 
11:44 AM
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 heh, Domino Pizza is doing this every day, but they are still expensive as heck.
 
Pizza in general is... super expensive compared to other foods.
 
Most of my pizza is home made :D
 
11:56 AM
Get Ready...
This was sent in by some Italian friend of mine
 
I assume the leaning tower of Pisa exists to throw heretics like that off...
 
should be a discrete trigger for many pizza lovers
In case someone misses the heresy, the base is a chicken cutlet.
 
Its basically the unholy lovechild of a pizza and a chicken parm?
 
Rob
It's hard to beat the $3-4 frozen pizza that you bake yourself.
 
@JourneymanGeek I think the base may be similar to a chicken cordon bleu, without any filling.
So... it is a reverse chicken cordon bleu.
 
12:02 PM
@Rob ehhh.... I suspect its pretty easy, depending on the effort
also, I'm seriously wondering if I can get a proper mini pizza oven in the new apartment... D:
 
@JourneymanGeek could be worse.... that is just tomato/cheese pizza. Suppose that was made for a anchovy pizza....
anchovy + chicken.
 
@SPArcheon Or a GF cauliflower base...
Shog tried it once... he rues the day.
 
@JourneymanGeek I suppose the name "Urusei Yatsura / Lum Invader" does not rig any memory, right?
 
There is an episode in that old anime where the classroom is preparing the "Friendship okonomiyaki"
 
12:06 PM
@JourneymanGeek Everything is possible :)
You just have to pay for it :P
 
@Tinkeringbell Oh, more that those things are high heat
so whether its safe, I can dump the exhaust out...
 
@Glorfindel Happens every time, from the question page or the homepage. Just seems like the saviourOfLostSouls variable is null.
 
@JourneymanGeek Just only use it on cold days ;) Or run the airconditioning harder ;)
(assuming your airconditioning dumps heat outside)
 
@Tinkeringbell uh, I mean "might I set the kitchen on fire?"
@Tinkeringbell oddly enough, its the first estate with a new environmentally friendly central airconditioning system
 
@JourneymanGeek Basic idea: Everyone brings one ingredient that is used to prepare the okonomiyaki, then every one gets a piece. Usually you want to bring things that can make the okonomiyaki better..... In the episode, the thing rapidly degenerates in a fight where everyone is adding disgusting ingredients and then tries to rotate the plate so that they end up as far as possible from them....
 
12:10 PM
@JourneymanGeek Sounds like that could be great or miserable :P
I've heard great stories about the heating/cooling for my apartment (which is supposed to be environmentally friendly too) and also horrible ones...
 
@MetaAndrewT. yeah that's also true lol
 
@Spevacus I see I removed @grant none from the script, that shouldn't make a difference but perhaps ... You could try updating to v2.0.1. If that doesn't work, I'd like to know your OS, browser and plugin manager so I can attempt to reproduce.
 
@Glorfindel Yep! That worked. Just tested the Downvote option and the Cancel/Close buttons on this question (vote retracted in the meantime). Thanks!
For posterity's sake, I'm using Tampermonkey as a script manager on Chrome w/ Windows 10 Professional.
 
12:28 PM
@Tinkeringbell Well I'll find out in 2022 2023
Covid be damned.
 
@JourneymanGeek Just 38 more days until I get the keys for me (hopefully). But yeah, covid threw some things around there too.
 
@Spevacus great, thanks a lot!
 
/o/
 
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2:19 PM
@JourneymanGeek Waffles: superuser.com/questions/1669906/…
Nivver mind, Tink took care of it ^
 
yeah, I was too late.
I can never work on my delete stats this way ...
 
statistieken verwijderen?
 
The number of posts you've single-handedly deleted or helped to delete?
 
3:20 PM
The number of actions that triggered the OP to rage delete :p
 
4:08 PM
Today I'll pretend to be Italian.
@Tinkeringbell 🤌 cosa?
 
4:29 PM
@Tinkeringbell wat?
 
Rob
4:42 PM
 
@Ollie From the lyrics: "Praat Nederlands me me" :P
 
5:16 PM
@Rob ma che vuoi? This is an absolute classic that speaks for itself. (Try it in southern Europe and everyone understands it.)
@Rob but the wiki article also doesn't do it justice. It's necessarily well humored and dispenses words.
@Tinkeringbell Jij praat Português?
 
 
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6:42 PM
Hey people! Can somebody please correct the spelling of Community Manager in this post: meta.stackexchange.com/a/309683. I tried to do it, but.. "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?"
 
How is it spelled? Then I can do a ctrl+f :P
 
@RandomPerson Ah, found it... there's also an extra 'they' above it, and plenty of other little mistakes. So you can do it yourself after all!
@Dudecoinheringaahing Thanks :)
 
Hello. Sorry I've been been in chat as much the past few weeks. It's been busy but I just wanted to pop by and say hi and that I hope everyone is doing well. :)
 
@Rosie You know, you could just schedule a message like that (Hi, I hope everyone is doing well) to be posted at random intervals but anywhere from 3 days to max. 7 days apart :P
Could also throw the 'I hope everyone is having a nice week' in the mix as well :D
 
6:57 PM
is there a userscript for that
 
Maybe, maybe not yet :P
 
I hope i don't have to resort to automating hellos. ;)
 
The law of the userscripts: as soon as someone asks if one exists, it comes into existence :P
 
@Rosie Me neither, but it's always a possibility if you feel you have to sorry about not dropping by much ;)
 
Anyone an idea what to do with this: meta.stackexchange.com/q/368703 ?
 
7:03 PM
@rene Recommend professional help? IPS meta should have a template for questions that require more help than the site can provide...
 
let me check
 
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Q: What's the official SE response to serious mentions of suicide or self-harm in posts?

MTLLast night on Mi Yodeya, someone posted a question that was basically a suicide note, along with the question of what Judaism thought about suicide. The question was put on hold very quickly, and several supportive comments were posted ("You've listed Los Angeles as your location. A local program...

 
@gnat Wait, where did I miss the suicide part?!
Oh nvm I see.
 
👣
 
Red feet?
Sorry, don't get that one.
 
7:18 PM
the foot colour is OS based
I think he menas walk away
waves emoji to english dictionary
 
Oh, yeah... good plan :)
 

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