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user273376

@JasonC could not help myself

12:10 AM

I didn't even know that still happened any more...

@JasonC Why does everyone who complains about downvotes say something about answers? (You downvoted because it's too hard of a question for you to answer!!! Don't downvote if you can't answer!)

Dude, I know. It's weird. I have no idea where that comes from, except maybe from some warped sense of entitlement or a roundabout way to rationalize a question by demonizing (and thus invalidating, in one's mind) the down-voters.

Welp...

@JasonC I have very little problem with receiving down-votes. In fact, nearly all of my points come from asking questions. Take a look. — Paul 3 mins ago

Looks like Paul went off the let's-get-sidetracked deep end. Guess that conversation's over.

user259867

I think it's because they are upset that some other question, somewhere on main, was downvoted and left without answer. Mostly it's the second part. They just want someone to answer. Like, really want it. Want it. Answer, ANSWER, ANSWER.

^ Pretty much.

@Paul Stop nit-picking; it's not constructive. — Frank 1 min ago

I am too blunt.

12:18 AM

Note that user @Gone doesn't have time to respond to my request against his false accusation. — Paul 3 mins ago

Just... wow.

Flagged as not constructive.

user273376

@hichris123 same

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26877076/1234256 opinion-based

cv-dupe meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243425/… (This is the Paul question; should probably be closed sooner rather than later)

@Gone It's gone.

user273376

@hichris123 awesome!

12:22 AM

I almost was going to say 'Gone', @Gone, but then I realized that would be confusing ("Well, my username is Gone, sooo... is he saying hi?") ;P

user273376

lol, I often wonder that

You could just combine it all into one, like:

@Gone <- That

user273376

lol

user273376

such a versatile nickname

Lol. Could come in handy when you're pretending to be afk too.

user273376

12:25 AM

indeed

@Gone Your MSE name is different, too. But you have the same dp, unlike myself.

user273376

yup, I have a different name for A51 as well - Sabre Tooth

I am trying to get cv privs on MSE, so it was kinda pointless to answer a q that will probably be nuked anyway.

user259867

@Frank I have a 100 rep bounty set to expire soon, but it would be difficult to give a useful answer there without hacking the software.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I can't hack software, but thanks.

12:38 AM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I'll break into an SE server farm tonight and unleash a hotfix... all for the 100 rep bounty. Sound good?

^^ JK, if it wasn't obvious enough.

bjb568

@bjb568 Shower, spanish HW done.

user259867

12:51 AM

HSM site is doing very well. Enthusiastic crowd. Went into public beta with no comments from SE team (on the meta, at least). Top question so far: How did German become the language of science?

user259867

Home Automation, on the other hand...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GENERAL RELATIVITY FIELD EQUATION SOLUTION AND GEODESIC EQUATION SOLUTION by Damon Blevins on physics.stackexchange.com

user259867

Be quiet. I may only be 14, but I do not appreciate you changing and misspelling my title, it was done for emphasis you idiot. It was done for emphasis to ensure that it was seen. Just because I am a minor doesn't mean you have to treat me like one and give me a lecture. — Damon Blevins 5 mins ago

user259867

kids these days

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@Rafflesiaarnoldii "It was done for emphasis to ensure that it was seen." Act like a kid, get treated as a kid. Do they not understand?

A: How far apart should I space Thuja 'Green Giant'?

1:02 AM

I think my shortest answer ever:

0

Plant them 5-7' apart for a privacy screen, 15-20' apart otherwise. These trees mature at 35-60' tall and up to 15' wide. I you want a screen, you may like the result even better if you stagger the trees, rather than planting them in a straight row.

user259867

Oh, I almost forgot about your bounty. Awarded.

user259867

Everyone should go serial-upvote Frank to get him to 20K. (And then back under).

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Hey, no foul play! >:|

@Rafflesiaarnoldii is in awe at how that hasn't been downvoted to hell

user259867

Huh, my blog post from 2013 suddenly got a traffic spike coming from search engines only. Not from social media, as usual. Anyone knows why there's a renewed interest in fourier and fouriest transform?

1:11 AM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Maybe a math contest asked a question on it? Just a guess.

searchs what is fourier and fouriest transforms

user259867

satisfied that my evil traffic-inducing plan works

Does the Posts table include deleted posts?

user259867

@JasonC No, it does not.

it does... just the ones that existed before the dump and were deleted after the dump

user259867

1:14 AM

Pretty much everything related to deleted posts is removed from the public database dump and SEDE. An exception is post links.

1:28 AM

Undo

138 2 11

algorithm box2d bufferedimage c# dd dtd entity-framework

copycat

Actually the cool Undo's the copycat. Close him as a dupe...

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/25731343/792066

user259867

Ah, it did come from social media in a roundabout way: a tweet by SMBC creator.

user259867

Really smiling over how "fouriest transform" in google produces a ton of hilarious results.

Tweeted by ZachWeiner on November 11, 2014 at 8:49 PM

Sometimes I google for typos just for fun. You'd be surprised the number of folks who have something to say about "doe snot".

1:45 AM

user259867

@JasonC Yes, that's the 2013 comic that inspired my blog post (among other posts and discussions). For some reason the author reminded the folks about it today.

user259867

It's not a particularly exciting subject, but better than arguing with Paul...

user273376

@JasonC "I am unclear on that, and I think it would help clarify in general" - love it

@Louis inb4 xkcd about "sometimes I X for Y"

btw, I had to click 16 times just to get an account be deleted

@Gone I'm not sure why I'm bothering. I mean, I understand what is really going on here. It's, obviously, yet another new user, perhaps with some confidence issues, who had some problem with some question and is having trouble fitting in, and is now freaking out all over the place defensively. I get it. It happens all the time. We've all seen it all before and it is common, valid, and reasonable, albeit annoying, behavior.

1:53 AM

Let the xkcd appear in all its splendor, if it must!

So I wonder sometimes if it's even worth the effort to try and squeeze some valid points out of it, because those behaviors are a really hard force to fight against.

user273376

it is getting old

Sometimes I start writing an answer and then.... "good grief, I've got better things to do." deletedeletedeletedeletedeletedelete, back button...

Yeah; I am losing interest on that thread. I actually am genuinely not trying to troll him with those questions, I'm hoping he'll think about it and come up with something with more substance. But I think I've about hit the limit of my attention span there.

user273376

interestingly, what is shows is that the community does care - which flies in the face of his 'elitist' etc name calling

1:56 AM

@Louis Exactly.

@Gone Exactly.

wut

user259867

@Braiam A meticulously detailed bug report. Anything odd about it?

Each time I saw "Awww." I was hoping for a catpic :( — Braiam 7 secs ago

user273376

@Braiam lol

bjb568

@bjb568 Chapter 42 complete!

user273376

2:03 AM

@Paul as an aside and response to your constant remarks referring to SE as elitist, and about us members as being jerksetc and the most unnecessary comment about us having a gangbang - the fact people are answering in comments and as answers shows that we care enough to interact and particularly in Jason C's case try and help you clarify your proposal. We don't have to, as like everyone else, we have lives to live and other things to do. But we are here, trying to get you to clarify what you are asking and explaining why the proposal is being downvoted. — Gone 3 mins ago

user273376

now i am tired of this

user259867

Is awww usage about evenly split between "adorable" and "disappointing"? [Maybe an ELL question?]

user259867

Really depends on the tone in which it is said.

user259867

Which does not render in typed text...

2:07 AM

... like sarcasm

Aug 20 at 2:58, by Shog9

@bjb568 xkcd oneboxes. Every time you post a cartoon without oneboxing, Jim Davis kills Garfield.

Yep. "This is such a bright idea." can be a compliment or an insult depending on how it is said. :)

the nuances of life... in the written internet

user259867

The title text on that one is weak, though. No loss.

user273376

LMAO
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243425/how-about-forcing-answers-when-there-is-rapid-down-voting-without-any-answers#comment795683_243429

Lol

2:11 AM

yeah, go skeptics.se!

user273376

I am in a hospital bed, the nurse is looking at me funny from laughing so much at that

awww...

^

@Gone, hospital bed?

user273376

@Louis yup, in hospital

2:13 AM

@Louis :)

I'm flashing back to my heart attack (happened many years ago and much too young: bad genes) and my time in the ICU and then recorvery. The nurses were looking at my laptop with suspicion. There was no Facebook then and most people did not know about the Internet.

user273376

I think they're worried that they gave me too much medicine

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Nurse: "You're not working with this thing, right?" Me: "No, I'm chatting with friends." Her: "Really? You can talk to people with that thing?"

user273376

lol

user273376

that still happens out here

2:16 AM

could we not change how you refer to the nurse :(

@Braiam, what do you mean?

just me being nitpick about unimportant stuff

Braiam's sad because we need to accept that boy nurses can be stupid, too.

user273376

lol

The nurses that took care of me at that time were women. I got guys on other occasions.

user273376

2:21 AM

I think the nurse who is giving me and my laptop an evil eye is a woman

Gone, you "think". What on earth are they giving you?

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user273376

Pain medicines

Let's play a game and say mildly sexist things about various occupations until one of us gets flagged. I'll start small:

The most important thing about a restaurant is a quick waitress.

... well that proved to be as unpopular as I'd imagined.

In my defense my wife was showing me pictures of her family so I was distracted. (Yep, I'm going to go with this excuse.)

user273376

I was getting another injection from that gender-uncertain nurse

2:31 AM

@Gone I think that happened to me last Saturday night... :(

@Louis Is your wife's sister hot?

user273376

lol

user273376

@JasonC that nurse travels far and wide, with her gender-neutrality and pain injections

@Gone I don't think this one was really a nurse. :((

@cVplZ Wow... you don't beat around the bush... my wife only has a brother, and he's settled so....

user273376

2:34 AM

@JasonC uh oh...

@JasonC I didn't know she was the manager of the business.

lawl

user273376

lol

@cVplZ The typical 3rd grade teacher in California has 23 students in her class.

The handyman was sexy to me.

user273376

2:40 AM

no comment

nice one ^

VHDL programmers get all the ladies.

I had no idea that this many words contained woman in them. Are they new words, or maybe they aren't actually words since.. scrabble

I sleep in a two man tent.

(Yeah bet you didn't see that one coming!)

user273376

mind blown!

2:44 AM

You could also probably fit two large dogs in there. Why not market it as a two-dog tent?

Because nobody likes wodogs.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I have a pair of glasses in transit from China right now. Two days to deliver from Chang Zhou to Colorado. Living in the future is awesome.

@JasonC The woman went to the market.

BOOOM!

MY HEAD ASPLODE

user259867

Maybe. Some of the folks on sustainability.stackexchange.com might disagree.

user273376

2:48 AM

@JasonC cranial flatulence?

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Bahaha

@Gone I think that's the proper medical term, yes.

@JasonC she brought our food out on time, wore a funky barrette in her hair...

user273376

@Louis see, being in hospital being watched by a gender-neutral gargoyle... erm I mean nurse, has its advantages

Sorry to read it's gargoyles over there. My stint was heavenly. (If you ignore the fact that my heart had nearly quit on me.)

2:52 AM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii yeah, if you think of it that way it's kinda depressing - two days to ship, less than a week from ordering them to having them in my hands... If I order from a local optometrist, it's a two-week turn around. Assuming they don't have to order the frames from China anyway.

user273376

nah, just this one gargoyle, she has been quite abrupt with all of us in the ward - but the rest of them are very nice, kind and efficient

user273376

@Louis damn glad your heart did not quit on you!

@Gone thanks, I'm glad about that too. :)

@Shog9 Yay 90's.

indeed

2:55 AM

I only had an extended hospital stay once; it involved a gn tube and a foley tube, and was totally not heavenly.

My advice is: If you ever have to get a foley tube, DO NOT WATCH THEM PUT IT IN.

user273376

my extended stay in hospital (far more than now), was when my internal organs decided to go on strike... looked and sounded like Grandpa Simpson

Gotta go... ciao!

That sounds terrifying.

Peace

user273376

@Louis catch ya around

user259867

@LoganMaingi No, I'm never sure which definition of "unanswered" questions we're using today. I was right at one time, but there are currently two versions of 'unanswered' in use... neither of which agree with 70,304 questions with no upvoted answers. You're right and the text is wrong — fixing it now. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 5 hours ago

user259867

3:04 AM

I have long given up on SE definitions of "unanswered". For me it is now simply answers:0.

user259867

Does anyone find Unanswered tab useful?

I don't use that tab

I still believe it's answers:0 OR isaccepted:no

user259867

hasaccepted:no (isaccepted is for answers)

ya, that's what I meant, thanks for the correction

user259867

SO has just reached 2M SE-defined unanswered questions...

user259867

3:13 AM

user259867

The lead of android as the most unanswered tag is undisputable.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii yes

but only the "my tags" tab

user259867

It's sorted by votes, so the first page is the same old problems-from-hell I've no clue about.

user259867

I'd take the search parameter unanswered: instead of that tab.

that just means your tags suck

user259867

3:20 AM

The tags in my case are branches of math: every branch has very hard problems that nobody on the site can solve for years. They are great to have and show off, but seeing them every time on that tab is not useful.

yeah, I can see how that'd be a problem

Meanwhile, this unanswered question just got a new answer today. One that works!