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M.A.R.

12:06 AM

@Tinkeringbell if your nausea is not caused by some serious medical condition, a simple pill can help

Drink a lot of water, and avoid fatty or spicy food for a while

If you have heartburn, you could try fixing that first.

Some oral infections, or even something so simple as forgetting to brush teeth for a day, has personally sometimes made me nauseous

As for the pill, domperidone should be pretty safe

Some allergies, not just food allergy, may induce nausea

Journeyman Geek

12:43 AM

@ThomasMarkov vaguely a little more this week

Feeds

4:46 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/28/…

Journeyman Geek

5:10 AM

@Feeds How to get more engineers entangled with oneboxing

Tinkeringbell

6:18 AM

@M.A.R. It probably was the spicy food that started it. But I've slept it off now :) As for pills, those are nice if you have them on hand, I didn't ;)

tripleee

6:50 AM

flag-pls spam returning spammer math.stackexchange.com/questions/4353424/…

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag government?! So it means IE6 only. Have fun! ;)

Banks in Israel still using IE6 for their internal apps. And will use it also in 1000 years due to a very simple fact, it costs too much to upgrade their systems.

Also useful for COBOL programmers, they'll always have jobs in banks due to this simple fact. :D

Journeyman Geek

7:07 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard ah, my last job managed to shed IE6... but insisted on edge, which was fun cause we had HTTPS with self signed certs that edge goes "Nope" on

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek lol well, governments and banks are like mountains, they can't be moved.

rene

@ShadowTheKidWizard banks are the worst place to trust your money with ...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@rene pity, but if you're using alternatives, you trust thieves to not break into your house. ;)

rene

I'm in fort Knox

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Or, you can go Ye style and buy social networks with your money. :P

rene

7:13 AM

I go meta

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Yay! Give yourself flower shaped diamond once you buy it. :D

@rene Is the "K" silent?

rene

Not when I pronounce it

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Knock Knock on Knox Doors

What benefit did I now receive from downvoting this unclear question? — Luuklag 12 mins ago

Good feeling, of course! @Luuk ^

And now going to finally play FF14 for my own good feeling, hopefully there isn't a new patch, that can take full hour to install. :/

!!/play FF14

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheKidWizard No such command 'play'.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

:(

Journeyman Geek

7:19 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm kinda confused at the user since most of the downvotes he's gotten is complaining about downvotes

and there's no obvious activity elsewhere

rene

@ShadowTheKidWizard Good vibrations ...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek probably sock, yeah.

@rene Good Old Times

tripleee

flag-pls spam gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/203101

Luuklag

8:01 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard true!

@ShadowTheKidWizard well see, but I think their systems are pretty up to date.

@JourneymanGeek sock?

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag no idea

there's nothing obvious

\o/

I think we'll just deal with the problems in front of us than dig deeper :D

Luuklag

If you want to dig into history you should consult a licensed archeologist.

Tinkeringbell

Found nothing either :P But they dug their own hole by question repetition ;)

Mithical

8:22 AM

@Luuklag Luckily, we have @Tink here.

Tinkeringbell

8:36 AM

No luck was involved there.

Luuklag

Love the race condition on that last smokey post.

It got deleted between me loading the page and loading the flag dialogue

So I could only flag for mod attention

Journeyman Geek

@JNat stackexchange.com/users/26588223/eco-nour?tab=accounts and stackexchange.com/users/26608127/simranjain123?tab=accounts for the backlog - the latter has only one surviving account but Its hard to mug a SF mod

@Luuklag the steel bar one? :D

Luuklag

8:58 AM

@JourneymanGeek The SU one that was posted here

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag ah

that got mod attention

Luuklag

9:30 AM

Nicolas being busy changing Juan into Juan

Wonder why their so aggresively editing out every Guarza part and replacing with M? Even went as far as deleting this perfectly fine question: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/363188/…

Also fun that google indexes things like this: stackmod.blog/2018/07/july-2018-newsletter-ii

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Probably just a 'don't have your full name on the internet' kinda thing.

I just opened the company mailbox (do that once/twice a week as the important mail goes to the client mailbox anyways). Had an email that I didn't submit 'you're weeky timesheet'.

And since the English in company mails is always so bad, it still had me double-check that I did just copy my timesheet from the one from last week, and as such I did submit a weeky timesheet last weeky ;)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

9:52 AM

@Luuklag no? He's changing the last name, though it's still trivial to get to their real name.

@Tinkeringbell why bother with English when all (?) employees speak a different language? Here only fancy startups doing that, but at least pay nicely. :D

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Because expats, for one thing.

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell ugh contractor life

though I did once not file one of my timesheets for a year

@Luuklag HR wierdness?

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell well type in his full name + Stack Exchange and you get a gazillion hits

Don't omit the SE part, he has a nefarious name buddy

I flagged one of Nicolas' post to link him to a blogpost announcing Juan's start on SE, wonder if their going to redact that too

Journeyman Geek

10:07 AM

@Luuklag including the blog

@Luuklag we generally see those flags tho

so.. we'll likely have to re-kick it up

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek i know, but he wasn't pingable in chat so that was the next best thing

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag yeah. sigh it would be so nice to have a headsup about these things

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek headsup coming your way, after the fact though ;)

Journeyman Geek

Then its too late :D

@Luuklag I've kicked it up (formally) for attention. Give it 6-8 units of time

Luuklag

10:28 AM

Yeah no worries, they can do as they see fit. I don't expect anything from it.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag They're aware and its by request/under review

considering the cirumstances uhhh I'm gonna do some creative editing

M.A.R.

10:45 AM

@Tinkeringbell I'll avoid spicy food for a couple of weeks at least. That might be easy or difficult, I'm not familiar with Dutch cuisine besides food that would make thick honey hide in shame

Complex carbs (bread etc.) can help nausea

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. Well Dutch cuisine is generally... salty and bland :P

I was just starting to enjoy sometimes cooking more spicy food :(

Got some good recipes and recipe books...

Probably not going to avoid spicy spices for weeks. I'll get used to it :P

rene

@Tinkeringbell stop adding salt then ....

Tinkeringbell

@rene Not just salt... think about spekjes in stamppot! :P

rene

Yeah, can't have stamppot without spekjes ...

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Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell you need to build up to it

Tinkeringbell

10:59 AM

I do... I mean I don't think half a teaspoon of sambal is dangerously spicy even for Dutch people XD

Journeyman Geek

Depends on how hot the sambal is

I understand that we're not an easy platform when it comes to on-boarding new users or guiding and coaching users but there is one USP that should not be neglected, ever: We're different from the rest of the internet. That is key in why the community that wants to share their knowledge are here and not somewhere else. Being (more) different then anything else should be the driving force behind change, not blending in with the chaos found elsewhere. — rene 2 mins ago

@rene - what's a USP?

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I have no idea. Just 'plain old regular' sambal ulek XD

rene

@JourneymanGeek unique selling point

too late to edit ... feel free to make that change

Luuklag

Unique selling point

Pretty common abbreviation

Oeh quite buggy connection going on

Journeyman Geek

edited

Luuklag

11:13 AM

Being late to the party by almost 15 min

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:18 PM

@Tinkeringbell oh, so that's the case in your company? You have people from more countries?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yep. Expats, migrants, refugees... it's a pretty big company too, so...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag lol no, they don't touch old blogs. Pretty sure even Adam is still Anna in the original welcome. If there is any? Let me check...

Feels good to be correct sometimes! :D

Welcome Valued Associates Anna, Rachel, CarleeJean and Charles!

Alison Sperling on January 26, 2012

Anna Lear is joining the Stack Exchange Team as a Community Manager working remotely from Ontario Canada. Many of you may know or recognize her from her role as a Programmers moderator, and – most recently – Stack Overflow moderator. Anna is a software developer and a longtime SO user. In her spare time she…

They don't rewrite history, just keeping relevant Q&A posts up to date with names.

I prefer to not mention any names to begin with when e.g. mentioning other posts in a post, just write "As written in this other post", but there's no policy and many people write "As written by [name here] in this other post..."

@Tinkeringbell oh, interesting mix.

@Luuklag hmm? What party did I miss? :(

@JourneymanGeek huh! It's about time you'll ask about abbreviation, usually you're the one using abbreviations others (well, me ;)) aren't familiar with. :P

Ginger

Question: if a user hits the ratelimit too many times will they be auto-muted or something similar? having some problems with a bot

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger nope

Assuming you mean chat (not API) at least.

In chat, you'll just have to wait more time.

Ginger

I do mean chat

Journeyman Geek

12:27 PM

@Ginger there's a omnibus post on rate limits I think

Ginger

weird

Shadow The Kid Wizard

There's no auto mute.

Ginger

guess it's a problem on my end then

thanks

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard Its above my non-pay paygrade

Shadow The Kid Wizard

That said, when something is suspicious, the account might get auto logged out. @Gin

Journeyman Geek

12:28 PM

I kicked it up to the community team and they can deal witj it

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek changing Juan's name? I really don't see any point in this.

Ginger

@ShadowTheKidWizard can't tell if that happened here, will investigate further

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard \o/

Shadow The Kid Wizard

There was a big issue with bot in Den, I'll check if the developer shared details when fixing it.

Found some.

in Shadow's Den, Sep 4, 2020 at 14:25, by ProgramFOX

@ShadowWizardWearingMask No, it wasn't, but the restarts caused a high number of logins over a very short time period. SE probably started blocking the login because of that (which has to be a relatively "new" feature).

@Ginger ^

So turns out login itself can be blocked.

Ginger

ok, well that's not my issue but thanks anyway

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:33 PM

Oh wait there's more:

in Shadow's Den, Jan 1, 2021 at 18:18, by ProgramFOX

The preventive solution: restart less
The remedy: wait hours until SE decides to not serve you a captcha anymore

Captcha was blocking the bot login.

Ginger

my bot uses cookies to fix that issue so that's not what's wrong but I appreciate the help

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger well, ProgramFOX might be available, if you want his help let me know and I'll ping him in Den.

He's used to me pinging after months and even years, and usually turns out in a day or two. ;)

Journeyman Geek

which reminds me

@M.A.R. ping

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Shog?

oh lol

First time I see @Journeyman doing nonsense ping, that's my realm! :D

Ginger

@ShadowTheKidWizard nah, it's fine

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:36 PM

@Ginger oh, OK. Good luck!

Ginger

thx

Mithical

@Ginger In chat?

The rate limit will increase in time if you keep hitting it while you're rate limited.

So the more you run into it, the longer you'll have to wait each time.

Ginger

my bot lib implements exponential delay

Mithical

If you're looking for bot help, I'd advise asking around SOBotics, if you can find a human.

Ginger

ok, thx

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:46 PM

@Mithical beep

For years I thought that chat is named SOBiotics i.e. Antibiotics, related to biology or medicine.

:-O

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheKidWizard 01100101 01111000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

haha!!

Ginger

. _ .

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger no worry Smokey doing that a lot, it's not illness. :D

Time to place online order. Cya!

Ginger

ok good just wanted to make sure it hadn't suddenly become sentient :p

Mithical

12:50 PM

@Ginger See the chat profile :)

@ShadowTheKidWizard \o

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Apr 13, 2015 at 19:37, by SmokeDetector

@xkcdBot I'm more sentient.

Ginger

hate it when my bots decide to revolt against me, always ruins my morning

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

added to "Great Quotes: Keep for Later Use"

Ginger

you've got a list of those? where can I find it, I need to add it to my SO fortune database :p

Feeds

1:04 PM

stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/28/…

Journeyman Geek

@Feeds Stack Overflow without oneboxes

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard I hope the list also contains good old classics like "Needs to be 20% cooler", "Believe in ME who believes in you!" and “When flattered, even a pig will climb a tree.”