(sorry if this is off topic here) I'm looking at the rate of new users on stack overflow and noticed that the the influx generally "accelerates", but the slope "resets" near 2013 and 2017. Were there any big changes to the stack exchange platform that might have caused that?
I've only started being active in the past couple months so I'm kind of out of the loop. I've seen a fair share of posts about things that happened near 2019 though.
No idea what Jo king is, or golfling, and how any of those related to my reply to Mith.
@forestdistrustsStackExchange hacker's wet dream
Get the fingerprints, get the jackpot.
I'm 1000% certain that hackers are going to break into central biometric data centers (of countries/governments), take everything, and be able to identify as whoever they want.
So it's worthless idea to begin with.
Password you can simply change if hackers stole it. Fingerprint you can't change.
But people are naive, so meh.... let them be hacked.
@tripleee oh, thanks, but it's actually double layered bug. The second layer is how come experimental reason with weight of 0 was posted here.
@starball mass user deletions, most likely.
There used to be a mechanism that deletes "idle" users that never did any action, it broke years ago and SE aren't going to fix it (too complex probably), but it did work for several years.
(Think feature request asking to fix it was declined, I'll look for it.)
@starball that's pretty common that the help center is out of date. If you care enough, start a bug report on MSE, and a staff might update the help center at some point.
@bad_coder what makes it more important than other bugs? It's just one of thousands ordinary, non fatal, non critical bugs.
Anyway the status-review queue is already more than full, and pretty much lost its value. With 182 questions there, and more added almost daily, but maybe one being done every month, in average.
It was nice idea. But expected utter failure.
So we can have the status review tag on all bugs and requests, it really doesn't matter.
If SE were serious about it, they would assign developers to actually work on bugs and requests from that pool, and fix/implement one every day, in average. That's the way to handle it. But meh, that won't happen.
New dining chairs delivered (which are nice and solid, and I like the store we got them from), had my 2nd booster (moderna bivalent) and... co-ordinating stuff over the phone with the parentals
and I love it when I ask "do I need to do $thing" when its easy
and then I get a phone call with incomplete information asking me to do $thing ....
@SPArcheon My copy of the game will arrive tomorrow, so I can play a little bit on Friday evening (maybe) and a lot Saturday/Sunday after chores :) I'll give an opinion after the weekend ;)
Yep, I read a bit about that too. Then again, I think the initial reviews for Arceus were similar, and I played that and had plenty of fun, so ...
The review I read mentioned "It is hard to enjoy a nice village if the windmill in the distance isn't revolving smoothly"... I often don't pay that much close attention to details like that and they certainly won't influence how much I enjoy the gameplay.
I'm playing a game, if I want to watch windmills I will take a hike/bikeride.
@Tinkeringbell sorry to hear. Maybe as a preventive step stash the frog statue in the backyard for the weekend. At least one kid would be disappointed, but you'll have one less thing to worry about. ;)
@ShadowTheKidWizard Oh yeah. I removed the frog the same day. Until I can find a way to turn it into a poison frog, it's not going back.
I really want to clean the windows in the front, but I overheard the neighbor telling another person that they would continue work on the tiles in 2 weeks (last weekend), so cleaning this weekend would mean having to do it again next weekend.... they look so grosss though :(
@ShadowTheKidWizard No, I said I had it for that purpose... and yeah... I would love if it could stay but in a neighborhood as crazy as this, it is apparently not a possibility so I'm disappointed but it has moved.
But with a neighbor like mine, I can clean the whole backyard on Saturday, then go out on Tuesday and find a mortar/cementlike stuff all over my gravel and on my expensive tiles.
@ShadowTheKidWizard It attracting kids isn't the problem. Adults not intervening but actually encouraging the kid they're in charge of to interact with something that isn't theirs at all, that is a problem.
@ShadowTheKidWizard It does. I just want to be able to feel a little bit of 'pride' in my work and what I have, and the arsehole makes it quite literally pretty impossible.
> Ryan Donovan helps run editorial for the Stack Overflow blog. He's spend over 15 years as a technical writer embedded in software development teams across multiple industries. He lives in New York City and hopes to meet your dog some day.
@Sonic you're better at those things than anyone else I know, can you please go over the flag post privilege page and look if there are more things that needs updating besides what's already reported?
@ShadowTheKidWizard Also, just in: woman shouts to barking dog to "shut up, you're waking everyone up" and is now having a loud conversation with stinky smoke neighbor
I found two other inaccuracies in the page: 1. the screenshot of the flag icon is outdated, and 2. posts are no longer banished from the front page with three spam/abusive flags (the only thing that kicks in is the usual removal if it's a question and scores -4 or below on a main site due to the implicit downvotes). cc @V2Blast — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog1 min ago
I know Sonic asked that but I don't actually know whether that's a thing. Most of the time, it's not an issue? Not that this was, either but... yeah.
I had left a comment but removed it because I didn't have any evidence of it and... I think it honestly slipped my mind and seemed minor enough I didn't want to take too much time to investigate.
@ThomasWard Not every question has the answer of "install/update software", and of the ones that do, they can be closed as duplicates of a canonical (the dictionary word, not the company) post. Just because Canonical (the company) says that a certain release is no longer supported doesn't mean that we, as a community, should stop answering questions about it if they still have useful answers today (e.g. a setting needs to be changed, there's a hardware fault, etc.). — gparyaniJan 30 at 21:35
