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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

5:10 AM

Bit of good news: soon I'll be able to take a train here again

Oct 7, 2022 at 17:08, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

On a bus because the train line is shut

Feeds

5:44 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/03/…

Journeyman Geek

@Feeds Why onebox experience is key to better chat, straight from the CHATO's mouth.

user

6:30 AM

if anyone's down for a music exchange:

Rockin' the Suburbs ('Over the Hedge' Version)

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Shadow Wizard Chasing Stars

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what caused the train line to be shut down for half a year?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizardChasingStars I linked to it at the time

Shadow Wizard Chasing Stars

The train here is trash, always late, always crowded, but at least they don't just shut down lines for months and years.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 7, 2022 at 18:07, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

TL;DR: it's a bit difficult to operate a train line next to the ocean because of waves

Shadow Wizard Chasing Stars

Oh. Well yeah this one is "nature power" then. How did they overcome this then? Any updated article?

rene

6:47 AM

They drained the ocean ...

Journeyman Geek

I think I've seen the documentary... half life 2?

PM 2Ring

what-if.xkcd.com/53 And here's the map after the oceans drop 50 meters:

And after 2000 years of trying to hold back the sea, the Netherlands are finally high and dry. No longer living with the constant threat of a cataclysmic flood, they're free to turn their energies toward outward expansion. They immediately spread out and claim the newly-exposed land.

rene

7:08 AM

@PM2Ring as the Dutch did back in the good old VOC times. Seen in that light we would have laughed at todays 'super powers' ...

PM 2Ring

7:19 AM

@rene We have a lot of people of Dutch ancestry here in "New Holland". ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Australians

rene

:D

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

There was a Dutch business traveler on the rail replacement bus I took today (the line will only be reopening for weekend trains, with weekday trains taking another two months)

Given that Interstate 5 (the highway which the line otherwise bypasses) is under perennial construction and congestion, having the line be closed was a huge problem

Luuklag

7:39 AM

@PM2Ring lot of Ag people moving over, cause there is abput unlimited space in Australia

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog because there are no waves on the weekend?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Luuklag octa.net/Projects-and-Programs/All-Projects/Rail-Projects/…

Looking at the Construction tab:

> Crews are installing ground anchors into the large slope between the railroad tracks and the Cyprus Shore community to prevent the slope from pushing the tracks further toward the coast. Two rows of ground anchors – 104 in row one and 116 in row two – are being drilled into bedrock deep beneath the slope.
>
> Contractors reached an important milestone in January 2023. The first row of 104 anchors has been installed and secured. Crews began excavation activities for row two in mid-January, and work is expected to continue through late March.

Luuklag

So they just don't work on weekends I guess

Also site times out for me

SPArcheon

9:00 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I didn't even realize that chat bypasses the 2MB thing since the chat upload feature has some other issues (no copy&paste for example - useful in some cases) but I assume it has no way to.

The 2mb limit is on SE side. The "I will make everything over 1MB unreadable by using compression algorithms that were already old in the '60" is on imgur side.

Tinkeringbell

9:40 AM

@PM2Ring We don't need sea levels to drop for that. See also 'Flevoland' :P

tripleee

flag-pls spam returning spammer (MS) askubuntu.com/questions/1453280

Journeyman Geek

10:58 AM

→ 23 messages moved to Chimney

tripleee

11:23 AM

was this done using Makyen's archiver script now?

looks nice

Journeyman Geek

@tripleee yup

tripleee

@JourneymanGeek thanks for taking the time to set that up; much appreciated!

Luuklag

11:54 AM

Wow, spam on stackapps, don't think I've seen that before

tripleee

flag-pls spam (MS) diy.stackexchange.com/questions/266135

Mithical

oh, new script?

tripleee

@Luuklag pretty low traffic, but hardly a first metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/…

now here's a pretty quiet one metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/…

and almost half by a single spammer

rene

@Luuklag and of course I missed it ...

tripleee

12:13 PM

flag-pls spam (MS) superuser.com/a/1766610

Feeds

1:08 PM

stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/03/…

b_jonas

Hat season is over on all sites, right? People in chat are telling me to ask a question on the main site, and I want to make sure that they're not asking partly for hat-related reasons.

I can still ask if hats are involved, just want to be clear what's happening.

Journeyman Geek

Sure!

Just politely

b_jonas

Yeah, the website says "The fun ends January 4th at 21:00 UTC." so it should be done.

I'll just have to be careful to try to explain the motivation a bit.

I suspect they might already know the answer and are getting ready to post it, but that's fine.

(Or they think they can get an answer quickly enough.)

Luuklag

2:15 PM

@rene ofcourse you did, I cast the final spamflag :)

SPArcheon

3:38 PM

@KevinB for fun...

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Q: How to use Power Automate "uriQuery()" function on an url that contains special characters

Due to some odd circumstances I have the necessity to use uriQuery() in a Power Automate flow in order to extract the query string from an url. This works as expected in most circumstances, except when the url contains special characters like accented letters, for example http://www.example.com/p...

power-automate

first part done, but I really hope you don't seriously think I will find an answer too :P

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