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Jan Dvorak

9:02 AM

too broad, or remove the last paragraph? stackoverflow.com/questions/27144935/…

Bart

Well, the last paragraph seems to be the actual question. And I'm not settled on "too broad".

rene

In the context of Google, any question that asks if you need to worry can be answered with Yes....

Jan Dvorak

> Google says it needs to know my hard disk size. Do I need to worry?

SmokeDetector

9:22 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: I quote myself there while muscles by Marion Brown on meta.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector tup

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244158/…

MysticMagic

404. so quick!

Bart

"You are going to the gym" was offensive enough for many @MysticMagic.

Unihedron

9:34 AM

It took three minutes though. One time we nailed a piece of spam in under 70 seconds.

MysticMagic

:D

user271022

Please see "About me" section in my profile

Bart

You followed the advice here? stackoverflow.com/help/deleting-account

If so, give it some time. Your account will be scheduled for deletion at some point, and you will receive a notification iirc @KasiyA. I believe you then have 24 hours to reconsider.

But if a mod/cm is around, I'm sure they'll tell you whether or not I'm wrong.

.... is it just me or is the entire chat section in the page moving up and down slightly?

Hmm, refreshed and it stopped

Ah no

rene

9:52 AM

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/27145971/…

Vogel612's Shadow

@Bart I get this too on lower resolution chromium...

Bart

It seems to come and go @Vogel612'sShadow

Vogel612's Shadow

it jumps up and down for something around 5 px..

Bart

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27145414/…

rene

spam gone

@Bart no repro on IE11

Bart

9:57 AM

I have no clear repro here either @rene. It happens every now and then

rene

I've loaded this room in chrome now as well...

Bart

And there we go again ...

Hmm, I'll capture a vid at some point.

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls Wordpress: stackoverflow.com/questions/27145751/…

Patrick Hofman

10:25 AM

cv-pls unclear: stackoverflow.com/questions/27146630/…

SmokeDetector

10:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ARE YOU INTERESTED IN YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM? by sarahidalgo on stackoverflow.com

Bart

^ es spam

Jan Dvorak

es pointless as well

nobody here speaks spanish

Bart

Sigh, stop wasting close votes people

Jan Dvorak

aw c'mon, it nearly got closed...

rene

Go spend those votes in the queue...

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

10:40 AM

@rene Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244159/…

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak proposal: shouldn't we store those spam post in an appropriate stocking silos until the 15 December? then we can use them to claim whatever flag-as-spam related hat they are giving out this year.

Jan Dvorak

@SPArchaeologist Why? There is going to be plenty of fresh fruit to eat this winter

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak but... the tale of the ant and the cicada.... we should stock up!

Jan Dvorak

NAA, or trolling? serverfault.com/questions/137951/…

Bart

10:47 AM

@SPArchaeologist with all the spam gone, all we would be left with is ham. We'll be fine.

Unihedron

@SPArchaeologist Nah, drupal will always have more spam.

Plus, just go flag "What have you tried" comments, they're easiest.

Infinite Recursion

^^

SPArchaeologist

@Bart ham? no bacon? Would someone please think of the bacon!

Bart

Canadian bacon @SPArchaeologist. Final offer.

Vogel612's Shadow

@Bart what is canadian bacon anyways?

Bart

10:52 AM

Disappointing @Vogel612'sShadow.

SPArchaeologist

@Bart Blu-ray or DVD?

Bart

@SPArchaeologist interpretive dance.

Vogel612's Shadow

@Bart we could still have some SPAM, bacon and eggs, or SPAM, SPAM, SPAM and eggs

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27147230/…

Bart

I prefer SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM baked beans and SPAM myself @Vogel612'sShadow.

Vogel612's Shadow

10:54 AM

@Bart you left out three SPAM's at the end

Jan Dvorak

Wow. This question is unclear, too broad and a recommendation request. — Jan Dvorak 12 secs ago

SPArchaeologist

@Vogel612'sShadow no SPAM SPAM SPAM HUMBUG?

(removed)

(removed)

(removed)

11:00 AM

> whats wrong there i can speak english very will.... – KOREANGIRL 2 mins ago

troll?

Andrew T.

very yes

Infinite Recursion

@FZhu A lot of people don't think that a woman wearing jeans and t-shirt equals "ugly". If you want to be allowed to wear what you like without nasty comments, surely that should also apply to styles you yourself don't like? — Jenny D Jul 16 at 10:43

Lazy question, good answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/5376303/…

Patrick Hofman

11:17 AM

cv-pls off-site resource: stackoverflow.com/questions/27147695/is-ilnumerics-open-source

Mooseman

11:31 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27148025/1234256

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls Convert this code: stackoverflow.com/questions/27148089/…

Mooseman

0

Q: IS this an extreme copy of Stack Exchange?

I just came across http://answers.splunk.com/ Not only is the UI similar to Stack Exchange, but they have identical badges and even diamond mods. (The biggest difference I see is that they have karma, whereas we have rep) Is this SE 1.0 or a knock-off? If it is, indeed, a knock-off, will SE ta...

Infinite Recursion

Why is "IS" shouting?

Bart

No problems there it seems @Mooseman

@Mooseman see also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5558/…

Infinite Recursion

11:47 AM

@MysticMagic :)

Vogel612's Shadow

@InfiniteRecursion why are you shrouding yourself in mystery?

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244161/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VISA DENIAL,PLEASE ADVICE by Joy on travel.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244162/…

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls GMTC: stackoverflow.com/questions/27148325/…

Jan Dvorak

11:51 AM

Fast come, fast go. Both pieces of spam gone without autodownvotes.

Infinite Recursion

Fading away into oblivion @Vogel612'sShadow ;)

Vogel612's Shadow

@InfiniteRecursion Don't do that, please! I We still need you around

Patrick Hofman

reject-pls stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6323051

cv-pls tool: stackoverflow.com/questions/27148739/…

SmokeDetector

12:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ORA-27102 ON WINDOWS 64 BIT by Yasir on dba.stackexchange.com

MysticMagic

Good evening firends... :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Hauke Lauking is a fucking bitch by Problems on unix.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

Jan Dvorak

and gone

Unihedron

12:29 PM

@SmokeDetector clean

grr.

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2706788#2706788

^owl sleeping?

Vogel612's Shadow

@SmokeDetector there isn't even a user named Hauke Lauking on unix..

OP should learn how to copy paste...

SmokeDetector

12:46 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ORA-27102 ON WINDOWS 64 BIT by Yasir on dba.stackexchange.com

Vogel612's Shadow

that's a dupe......

Infinite Recursion

@SPArchaeologist He isn't a bot, he is human. He only corrects those who he cares for.

Bart

Ouch

Jan Dvorak

1:01 PM

Also, I missed that typo

Infinite Recursion

good to kow

Jan Dvorak

*know

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO READ MOBILE NUMBER FROM APP? by AJITHA on android.stackexchange.com

MysticMagic

:D

rene

1:29 PM

Is it caps-lock hour?

YES

YES, WHAT?

NOOOOOOOOOO

NO, WHAT?

WHYYYYYYY???

1:33 PM

OHHHH

ProgramFOX

LOL:

80

Q: How do I draw a pair of buttocks?

I'm trying to develop a function which 3D plot would have a buttocks like shape. Several days of searching the web and a dozen my of own attempts to solve the issue have brought nothing but two pitiful formulas below. They have some resemblance to the shape I want, though not quie. Could you h...

plotting

Bart

@ProgramFOX "You, madam, have some wonderful asymmetric probability distributions"

And PlotStyle -> {Brown, Brown} ... that has to be the right answer.

Infinite Recursion

1:54 PM

in Shadow's Den, 2 hours ago, by MysticMagic

I know about Inf and Duck, but not Jan, though :)

in Shadow's Den, 2 hours ago, by SPArchaeologist

@SweetWisherツ I was referencing the "Jan is becoming a orthographic corrector owl" movement started by ~~the duck~~ Infinite Recursion

in Shadow's Den, 2 hours ago, by SPArchaeologist

@MysticMagic post something with a typo in the Tavern and you will soon...

^ good job girl, @MysticMagic

jadarnel27

@Bart Glad this is what I woke up to today.

Haha, excellent.

Have a brown day :)

You too!

Brown days for everyone.

Infinite Recursion

1:59 PM

Brown days for everyone.

Andrew T.

Brown days for everyone.

ProgramFOX

Brown days for everyone.

Jan Dvorak

Brownies for everyone.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ORA-27102 ON WINDOWS 64 BIT by Yasir on dba.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

... again?

Unihedron

2:13 PM

That's why you don't crash the train, else something bad happens

2

MysticMagic

@InfiniteRecursion :D nothing happened.. Jan missed that :|

ProgramFOX

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244165/…

MysticMagic

done & removed too :)

< 56 secs. cool...

rene

@JanDvorak edit in the queue dba.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/35983

Jan Dvorak

decides to thoroughly check every @MysticMagic's comment for any typographic mistakes

MysticMagic

2:16 PM

:D deciding to be more careful in not making typo in hurry ;)

Jan Dvorak

*careful of

*in a hurry

Infinite Recursion

Now he won't miss @MysticMagic, have fun :)

Unihedron

O-o

Johannes Kuhn

lol

0

Q: Opinion about chat technologies

I am building a web chat and I was wondering about which technology to use. Since I am already using Node.js to handle the video calls, my first thought was to use Socket.io for the chat part. But then I thought there was no need to reinvent the wheel and I could use something like Tigase and int...

node.js socket.io chat irc tigase

primarily opinion-based?

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak d͏̖̭o͖͓̩̲̞͚ͅ ͎̦̼̱̮̟͠t̘̯̭͓̤h̗͔̮͎e̡̝̫̲̺ ̮̞̲ͅs͚͎̳̜̬͖̣͜p̞̦͈̞͢e̷̺̰̹̖̬̺l̲̳̤͍̖͇c̫h͞ec̸̖̗̞̳̟k̬̝e̗̙r̩̤̞̝͖̖͓ ͇͍̱͓̫̲͕o͏̥w̮̤͕̗l͉͙̬͜ ̬̣̻͖̘͚̯̀w̪͓̞̰o͔̗̻͉r̥͍̺̯̱̻͉k̭̯ ̥͎͙͇̳a͙̙̬̙̩l̬̻̠̼̥ͅs̸̘̣o̭̬̣̳͇̻̪ ̦̞w̵̱̯͕̺ͅi̹͠h̗͢t̻ ͞Z͇͈͕a̡̲l̳̖̙͍ͅg͖o̠̬͓͖͢?̩

Vogel612's Shadow

2:20 PM

does*

Jan Dvorak

Closed by the tavern

Johannes Kuhn

yay

Jan Dvorak

@SPArchaeologist I'll let others read that mess of a text

MysticMagic

@InfiniteRecursion :D

@JanDvorak thanks :)

SPArchaeologist

Evil plot scheme of doom:
1) start writting every message with Zalgo
2) make all other users do the same
3) develop grease script to de-zalgify text
4) profit when the Owl won't correct you anymore

Jan Dvorak

2:23 PM

5)wait a while

Unihedron

5.5) forget to think of Plan B

Jan Dvorak

6) watch as I create a dezalgify script as well

MysticMagic

7) Complete work and go home :P

Johannes Kuhn

@Jan CG for dezalgify?

Jan Dvorak

code golf?

Johannes Kuhn

2:24 PM

yeah

if you spec it well

ä -> a or ä?

\o

o/

requiring 2+ modifiers before removal might be more fun

Unihedron

2:28 PM

\o/

Johannes Kuhn

Simple version: throw all characters with CP > 127 away.

Jan Dvorak

that's not fun

Vogel612's Shadow

also it doesn't account for cool special chars...

™ <-- CP 0153

or ╬ <-- CP 2254

Johannes Kuhn

yeah, it also removes the moderator diamond

Vogel612's Shadow

nope..

that's CP 4..

Jan Dvorak

2:33 PM

also, combined characters should dezalgify to their bases

@Vogel612'sShadow which codepage?

Vogel612's Shadow

umm... I don't know it works for me....

Johannes Kuhn

codepage?

Vogel612's Shadow

probably Cp1252

Jan Dvorak

in unicode u+0004 is a control character

Vogel612's Shadow

hm...

and it's not CP1252..

because there 153 isn't TM:..

Unihedron

2:42 PM

The joys of finally near completing a sudoku where you've done all of it carefully, then at the end there's one mismatched pair...

Bart

Fill in random numbers, look around you with a smug expression, and then throw it in the trash. Nobody needs to know @Unihedron

5

Infinite Recursion

codepage windows-1252 @vog ?

Vogel612's Shadow

@InfiniteRecursion yea?

well it's a guess..

Infinite Recursion

Windows-1252

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 is a character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows in English and some other Western languages. It is one version within the group of Windows code pages. == Details == This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by using displayable characters rather than control characters in the 80 to 9F (hex) range. Notable additional characters are curly quotation marks, the Euro sign, and all the printable characters that are in ISO 8859-15. It is known to Windows by the code page...

ok..

@uni ~~Don't~~ follow @Bart's advice

Unihedron

am confused

Vogel612's Shadow

2:53 PM

thanks for reminding eme why I hate encodings @Inf

gunr2171

joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

rene

Just flip the right dip switches on the printer

Infinite Recursion

^ does anyone see a typo in vog's message or is it just eme?

Vogel612's Shadow

NOOOOO!!...

emy ecredibility eis elost

Infinite Recursion

etotally

gunr2171

2:58 PM

Right now i'm typing this on an emac, and soon this joke will progress to an imac

Infinite Recursion

I am trying to restore the ecosystem to it's earlier state which was disrupted by my entry....spam canary is up and running again, hopefully grammar nazi will be back soon...

Vogel612's Shadow

@InfiniteRecursion you probably will always stay a mystery to me ... maybe it's good that way.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW DO I EXPORT DATA FROM AN EXCEL FILE TO XML WITH FIXED WIDTH COLUMNS? by SUSAN on superuser.com

Infinite Recursion

3:20 PM

@Vogel612'sShadow They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~ Andy Warhol

Only you can undo the change you bring, there isn't any mystery in that :)

Vogel612's Shadow

@InfiniteRecursion I'd say that is not a way I'd like to look on things..

because that means the mistakes made in the past by others, that still affect the present cannot be atoned for..

or how one of my favorite bands put it: "It's not your fault that the world is the way it is. It'd be your fault if it stays that way."

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

3:31 PM

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

3:33 PM

Morning!

Mooseman

Morning!

Vogel612's Shadow

C-C-C-C-C-C-Combobreaker!!!!!

Evening!

Evening!

Evening!

Evening!

3:34 PM

Evening!

Evening!

3

3:37 PM

SPAM : Inf ^^

:P

Infinite Recursion

@Vogel612'sShadow I don't want someone else to fix mine, I hope I will be able to fix it.

SPAM : Cat gifs by @TGMCians on MSE and MSO :P

Unihedron

Fox vids > cat gifs

The internet is full of cat / fox people because the dog people actually go outside.

5

TGMCians

@InfiniteRecursion haha

Infinite Recursion

3:43 PM

agrees with @uni

Vogel612's Shadow

Meaningful conversation> Fox vids

Unihedron

is glad that the random joke got appreciated

SPArchaeologist

@InfiniteRecursion Kitties?

have some free kitties.

Infinite Recursion

yes

SPArchaeologist

Vogel612's Shadow

3:46 PM

@SPArchaeologist you do know that this is not kitties, right?

TGMCians

@InfiniteRecursion didn't you see that answer has more upvotes than others..that can't be considered as SPAM, you're wrong [status-declined] :P

Vogel612's Shadow

status-too-tired-for-this

SPArchaeologist

@Vogel612'sShadow totally cats. The similarities they may bear with something you had seen somewhere else are purely casual.

Infinite Recursion

SPAM + sock puppet voting ring @TGMCians [status-flagged-for-mods]

TGMCians

Ah

Infinite Recursion

3:49 PM

Ha

Unihedron

Ha

Infinite Recursion

No more trains @uni :D

bjb568

Ha

Unihedron

aww :P

Infinite Recursion

You made four trains already :P

bjb568

3:50 PM

I like trains!

Unihedron

TrainOverflow

Infinite Recursion

I like trains!

TGMCians

@InfiniteRecursion huh you broke train!!! :/

Infinite Recursion

yes :D

bjb568

:O

Infinite Recursion

3:51 PM

Too many trains :P

Unihedron

Trains In Evening

21 mins ago, 7 minutes total – 25 messages, 8 users, 24 stars

Bookmarked just now by Unihedron

TGMCians

Too many trains :P

Infinite Recursion

go do sudoku!!!

Unihedron

I've completed all the puzzles I'm supposed to finish though.

goes to flag stuff

Infinite Recursion

please flag @TGMCians spam cat videos, @uni :P

The Guy with The Hat

3:57 PM

So apparently there is an encoding issue on Stack Exchange that causes encoding issues to be replaced.

Although it might just be my computer.

Unihedron

Wait... what?

ProgramFOX

8

Q: What if I don't want to work at "Rochester Institute ofï¿½"?

As I was closing terrible questions, I noticed something strange in the Careers ad: There appears to be an encoding problem. I'm not sure what is supposed to be there, but it shows ï¿½ instead. More examples: Leadership for Educationalï¿½ instead of Leadership for Educational Equity. Stansb...

bug careers advertising encoding

The Guy with The Hat

Unknown incoming characters from the web are replaced with �

ProgramFOX

Hi @TheGuywithTheHat! It's been a long time since I saw you on chat. Nice to see you're back!

The Guy with The Hat

Which shows up as ï¿½

Unihedron

3:59 PM

+1 for "As I was closing terrible questions"

The Guy with The Hat

@ProgramFOX Thanks! I recently started being more active on Stack Exchange, so I decided I might as well see what The Tavern was up to :)

TGMCians

@InfiniteRecursion :D

Infinite Recursion

@TGMCians: Please provide a hat for our favorite cat

TGMCians

@InfiniteRecursion okay, /me doing and will share asap with her glasses :)

Infinite Recursion

TIL: bjb is a gal

5

ProgramFOX

4:10 PM

@bjb568 ^

@bjb568 ^

@bjb568 ^

@bjb568 ^

@bjb568 ^

5

The Guy with The Hat

What's the deal with all these trains?

Did I miss something while I was gone?

ircmaxell

4:13 PM

@balpha or any other SO dev ping

ProgramFOX

@TheGuywithTheHat We... have a lot of trains.

Braiam

@TheGuywithTheHat people that want to be young again to play with trains...

2

Unihedron

Trains In Evening

43 mins ago, 7 minutes total – 25 messages, 8 users, 24 stars

Bookmarked 22 mins ago by Unihedron

The Guy with The Hat

So it just sort of happened?

ProgramFOX

Yes

balpha

4:14 PM

@ircmaxell sup?

The Guy with The Hat

Ah

ircmaxell

@balpha can we get a private room? I think I may have found an issue

TGMCians

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/756/secrets

Bart

Ah, why can't we join in on the fun? throws tantrum

Infinite Recursion

throws Bart

Bart

4:16 PM

Good luck with that @InfiniteRecursion.

Unihedron

throw new TrainsOverflow();

gunr2171

throws error

throws rock

ProgramFOX

throws up

(not really)

Infinite Recursion

My luck was good, you didn't break @Bart :)

Unihedron

throws a party

(not really)

The Guy with The Hat

4:20 PM

throws throw

rene

tries to come up with something

(not really)

ProgramFOX

lol

Unihedron

throws a bounty frenzy

Infinite Recursion

@TheGuywithTheHat: The trains started with Uni, Sam and I. We entered and used to greet everyone in the morning and then star them. Gradually the trains grew longer...

ProgramFOX

@InfiniteRecursion Wait, you were the people who starred all those?

Unihedron

4:22 PM

And TGMCians, for greeting with emoticons

@ProgramFOX No, me..

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron ಠ_ಠ

Infinite Recursion

Some @ProgramFOX :)

The Guy with The Hat

I should make a userscript that automatically continues a train once it starts