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Braiam

12:00 AM

@SmokeDetector no joke man!

SmokeDetector

12:21 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SOCORRO.. COMBOBOX EM JAVA (ECLIPSE) by Marcella on pt.stackoverflow.com

Braiam

in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 16 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

Interesting that spammers are now commenting to each other.

in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 16 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

"Oh thanks. I'm a real person yanno, all made of meat that is not spam"

hichris123

More spam flags needed on stackoverflow.com/questions/29719297/… and dba.stackexchange.com/questions/72045/…

tchrist

@hichris123 The first is spam?

I mean sure it’s crap but I don’t see the spam aspect. I’ve delete voted it for spite. :)

Or do you mean the now-deleted answer?

It has an accepted answer, so Roomba won’t touch it.

AstroCB

Gone.

!xkcd find victory

xkcdBot

Really, the comforting side in most conspiracy theory arguments is the one claiming that anyone who's in power has any plan at all.

Braiam

12:40 AM

@xkcdBot Well, Google plans sucks

tchrist

@AstroCB Martijn.

He gave it the rest of the delete it needed but it is not "spam-deleted".

Alexis King

I, for one, welcome our new Martijn overlord.

tchrist

Which is good, because that’s what I thought should happen, so I didn’t flag.

Alexis King

Though I suppose that's not a very controversial opinion.

Braiam

> Why are there so many Avengers
> Why are the Avengers fighting X men
> Why is Wolvering not in the Avengers

why indeed

tchrist

12:44 AM

Wolvering wolverines.

A poetic collocation.

bjb568

What's the thing at the bottom there?

tchrist

huh

hichris123

@tchrist The accepted answer is spam (see chat.meta.stackexchange.com/…); the question is a spam seed.

Braiam

anyone can view the image ^?

bjb568

no

reverse "anyone" and "can"

I can see that tho.

Braiam

12:51 AM

yeah, that's what I wanted to link...

tchrist

@hichris123 Doesn’t spam make it hard not to so come to hate the spamming branch of humanity with all your heart and mind and soul that you grow into an insanely vindictive spammocidal maniac and rage against the darkness?

hichris123

@tchrist Either that or watch in amazement at the stupidity (or ingenuity) of the aforementioned spammers.

tchrist

All we need is WANTED DEAD NOT ALIVE posters, and an exemption from all legal consequences of making it so.

Declare them outlaws in the ancient sense of the word: that they and their heirs and affiliates have no recourse to the rule of law, and that all may do as they please with them.

No bag limit.

hichris123

"SEO experts" too?

Roombatron5000

@tchrist is it possible to not like spam but like advertisements in general, they both are sickening

tchrist

12:56 AM

@Roombatron5000 To me they are the same.

It’s a form of assault.

Ooh, gnat bountied the CVRQ question.

I wonder the bar is set too high asking for two golds or a gold and a silver.

He really just wants more votes, not that votes be more effective.

28

Q: Give extra close votes, only accessible via /review

With question and answer up and down votes, one has so many they may cast per vote period. From What are the limits on how I can cast, change, and retract votes? : Thirty post votes per day per user (includes upvotes and downvotes) Up to ten additional question-only votes per day per us...

hichris123

@tchrist I dunno. I'm halfway to a silver tag badge, but I've cast thousands upon thousands of close votes. I think the Steward makes sense... but I'm not sure about the tag badges.

Braiam

cc @hichris123 :P

user259867

I want more up/down votes. For example: 40 plus 1 for each 1000 rep.

user259867

When approaching the limit, I sometimes open several posts in tabs to decide which ones are the most worthy.

yellowantphil

@2mkgz vote on things that are doomed to be deleted before the day is over. You’ll get in tons of votes

hichris123

1:10 AM

@Braiam ...

yellowantphil

@Braiam people still use Firefox? ಠ_ಠ

hichris123

Dec 4 '14 at 2:24, by Shog9

I mean, I don't want to say that hand-feeding the Roomba has driven folks like @Raff completely mad.

yellowantphil

@hichris123 I’m only partially mad so far

hichris123

(raff == 2mkgz by the way)

Doorknob

@yellowantphil I do.

yellowantphil

1:12 AM

is there a wiki answer somewhere that enumerates his/her/its/their names?

Roombatron5000

Dec 4 '14 at 2:25, by Shog9

But, that's probably only because they were borderline to begin with.

tchrist

@hichris123 Yeah, that’s what I’m wondering. Should CV Steward be enough by itself to grant heavier CVs?

hichris123

@yellowantphil Uh.. not sure... @2mkgz?

@tchrist Hrm, I wonder on SO how many people have CV Steward.

tchrist

@hichris123 I dunno, but I have four of them on ELU. :)

user259867

4

Q: Find old display names of a user

As observed here, it can be confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names So I've made a simple API-based tool: Old display names of a user It is based on /users/{ids}/mentioned method of Stack Exchange API, which returns all comments in...

app users website

tchrist

1:14 AM

They just won’t keep awarding me the missing ones. :)

AstroCB

yesterday, by AstroCB

2 days ago, by AstroCB

Anyone working on a userscript that replaces all references to @user147263's name with "That user who changes usernames once every two weeks"?

yellowantphil

@2mkgz very handy

hichris123

@tchrist I hit 2k CV queue reviews and then decided not to use the CV queue anymore.

tchrist

Cuz why?

hichris123

I prefer to use my close votes where I know they'll count.

tchrist

1:16 AM

Right.

hichris123

i.e. where they won't age away... where they helped to close a post, not where they languished, bored.

tchrist

So I go to the 10k tools and look for stuff I can off.

hichris123

yeah, I don't have the 10k tools. :(

tchrist

But that has the problem of making you multivote.

hichris123

But I do have SEDE.

@2mkgz rollback if you feel like it: math.stackexchange.com/posts/1253540/revisions

tchrist

1:18 AM

@hichris123 Oh, I thought this was a 10k-on-SO-only room. :)

yellowantphil

@2mkgz this tool doesn’t work right

user259867

@hichris123 meh, it wouldn't improve the post much.

hichris123

@tchrist Sadly not. But I'm getting there!

@2mkgz That's why I said "if you feel like it". :P

yellowantphil

the usernames tool chokes on . in names, and assumes @anything in a comment is a name

tchrist

@hichris123 I now only use the SO CVRQ to Mjölnir, and skip stuff I’m not sure of.

yellowantphil

1:20 AM

I was “S. Morgenstern” for a month, and it concluded that my name was S

user259867

@yellowantphil Feel free to improve. I forgot to state the license there, but it's WTFPL.

tchrist

Which is one way to make sure your votes count.

But you have to take responsibility to reopen stuff if you’ve made a mistake.

yellowantphil

@2mkgz or I’ll change my name frequently and put a leading . in every name, to be extra baffling

hichris123

@tchrist That actually makes quite a bit of sense. I assume you filter on dupes then?

tchrist

@BJB568 WERE YOU SUSPENDED?

@hichris123 Yep.

bjb568

1:23 AM

what?

yellowantphil

@tchrist perish the thought

tchrist

dupes and golds.

@bjb568 The old flags.

bjb568

Why would I be suspended?

wat

tchrist

Didn’t you just complain about old chat flags?

bjb568

wat

When?

tchrist

1:24 AM

Stop woostering.

Alexis King

Whelp. I have a job interview tomorrow. I'm really anxious. >.>

tchrist

I must be misterecalling.

bjb568

…

yellowantphil

@AlexisKing what are your best and worst qualities? If they ever ask me “worst” again, I’m going to say it’s that I have little tolerance for stupid interview questions

bjb568

Well, speaking of complaining, more serial dvs. stackoverflow.com/users/2371861/bjb568?tab=reputation

tchrist

1:26 AM

I have never had my serial delete votes reversed. :)

bjb568

Oh wait, those are the same ones.

The rep tab is confusing.

Braiam

this... is a thing!?

Alexis King

@Braiam Welcome to latter-day capitalism!

yellowantphil

@Braiam what if the aliens hold you for ransom? should I get ransom insurance or abduction insurance?

tchrist

@bjb568 Looks like you’ve peaked, laddie.

Alexis King

1:29 AM

Life goals: figuring out how to evade the SE serial voting detectors.

tchrist

@AlexisKing Use votes that aren’t up- or down-votes.

Roombatron5000

@bjb568 isn't that likely just b.c a user upvoted an answer of yours but that user is now deleted?

tchrist

@BJB568 Looks like it’s all downhill from here:

Braiam

@AlexisKing use the middle arrows!

Alexis King

@tchrist Psh, those don't let me screw with other people's rep.

tchrist

1:30 AM

bjb568

history.stackexchange.com/a/21494 what is this even

tchrist

@AlexisKing Yes they do!

yellowantphil

it’s an answer to a question

tchrist

@AlexisKing Although generally not the way you would like.

bjb568

@Roombatron5000 I was talking about the older thing, it didn't look as old as it is because the rep tab is confusing.

@yellowantphil yeah, but like, what's it talking about?

tchrist

1:32 AM

The further away you are from old, the older it looks.

Alexis King

@tchrist Look, all I want to do is get Jon Skeet's rep to one million. Is that too much to ask?

yellowantphil

@bjb568 he’s quoting the Bible, a verse that appears to promote short hair for men and long hair for women. Saying that those standards have been around for a long time, at least off and on

bjb568

Wait, he asserts the bible is an authoritative and appropriate reference?

Alexis King

@bjb568 The bible had to be written by somebody.

yellowantphil

he asserts that the Bible is older than World War I. what do you think he’s asserting?

that verse was written nearly 2000 years ago. Therefore, it’s on topic for the question

bjb568

1:34 AM

Well, if the bible is crap, it may not reflect on cultural norms of any culture.

And I'm not saying it's not crap.

yellowantphil

so what are you saying?

it’s just an old reference to hair length for men vs. women

Alexis King

@yellowantphil He's saying that it's just like, your opinion, man.

3

bjb568

"When and why did having long hair become associated with women, and short hair with men?" "The holy s**t mentioned it so maybe probably there was something related or something before WW1"

yellowantphil

you’re being a little slow here...

bjb568

So basically what alexis said.

tchrist

1:43 AM

@bjb568 salt Sart saut scat Scot scot scut seat sect Sekt sent sept sett sext shet shot shut sift silt siot sist skat skit slat slit slot slut smit smot smut snit snot soft soit sont soot sort spat spet Spit spit spot stat stet stot stut suet suit sunt Swat swat swot

yellowantphil

it was the holy Scot, clearly

Braiam

@tchrist wow, so many typos of Sket, you know that you wanted to write it ;)

Alexis King

The Holy Snot

tchrist

@Braiam Nothing wrong with wry tits.

Braiam

@tchrist maybe

tchrist

1:45 AM

Nor with ryed its.

bjb568

sext porbably

tchrist

@bjb568 No thank you.

bjb568

:p

tchrist

@bjb568 Don’t point that thing at me unless you plan to use it.

3

bjb568

:d

tchrist

1:48 AM

is making a list of BadJapeBoy’s most common responses and preparing an autoreponder for each

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Is Herbalife safe, and can it actually promote sustained weight loss? by user15871 on skeptics.stackexchange.com

yellowantphil

@tchrist automatically pondering again?

or are you writing a tchristBot

tchrist

@yellowantphil pandering to the missus

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

yellowantphil

1:52 AM

wait, I thought Smokey retired

@SmokeDetector one of those answers is NAA

I can’t flag it without an account

bjb568

get an account

hichris123

@yellowantphil this one: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18112/…. lol

yellowantphil

@hichris123 yup

@bjb568 nooooooooooooo

bjb568

yer so binary

like my future girlfriend, if she exists

yellowantphil

cats don’t really date

tchrist

1:57 AM

@bjb568 \ʇ\^\s

bjb568

@yellowantphil hey, we're civilized over here!

tchrist

@bjb568 With a sex change, all things are possible.

yellowantphil

@bjb568 it’s part of your culture as a cat!

bjb568

ಠ_ಠ

yellowantphil

@tchrist he can’t be his own girlfriend. I think...

Braiam

1:58 AM

@yellowantphil he's a quantum cat

tchrist

@yellowantphil He just shanghais one of his mates and sends them to the kitty-fixer.

bjb568

I don't get why teachers record attendance. They are so bad at it anyway.

yellowantphil

they don’t do it in college

generally

bjb568

good

tchrist

@bjb568 Nap time.

bjb568

1:59 AM

yawn

need to do hw tho

tchrist

@bjb568 *thou

yellowantphil

@tchrist thou art doing homework?

bjb568

I don't take art.

tchrist

@bjb568 How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that’s a hw problem.

bjb568

:p

tchrist

2:00 AM

@bjb568 Simonizer.

bjb568

stop pinging me so I can get to work!

yellowantphil

Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! I am come of good kin, I tell thee!

tchrist

14 mins ago, by tchrist

@bjb568 Don’t point that thing at me unless you plan to use it.

@bjb568 The death of a thousand pings awaits thee.

bjb568

mutes computer

This guy used to be a math teacher.

tchrist

@bjb568 🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉‌🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉�‌�🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

2

bjb568

2:02 AM

I wonder why he isn't now.

Braiam

@tchrist err... why....

tchrist

@bjb568 Because he forgot to set The Odyssey in an italic face.

yellowantphil

@bjb568 I thought that said epic smiley work ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

tchrist

There goes that dumb UCS-2 bug again.

bjb568

no smiling at skewl

yellowantphil

2:04 AM

@tchrist more broken unicode?

in the middle of a post?

bjb568

nah, SE is broked

tchrist

@bjb568 skews skewered skuas

@yellowantphil Yes.

19

Q: Unicode mishandling bug in chat starboard truncation

I see dead charac�... TD;DR: Just like how when you cut a worm in half, you don’t get two worms because both parts die being non-viable each on its own, so too does cutting a character in half result in dead characters. Characters are atomic and must never be split. In chat when something lon...

bug chat unicode

yellowantphil

let’s storm SE HQ with pitchforks and picket signs with � printed on them

4

@tchrist huh, I’m famous. The Cat Spammer 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱‌🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

although your screenshot makes them look more like mice

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Url in title: problema com a posição da Camera (unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/survival-shooter) by elio on pt.stackoverflow.com

tchrist

@yellowantphil That’s BakedJehoshaphatBoffin’s fault.

yellowantphil

2:10 AM

bug also appears in comments on posts

tchrist

@yellowantphil I keep telling you: these damned C♯ programmers have no flipping crew what Unicode is.

yellowantphil

@tchrist it’s that thing with accents and cats and stuff in it, right?

AstroCB

Alright; this is experimental, but...

!xkcd explain 676

xkcdBot

> The comics points out the large number of levels of abstraction working together at any given time in today's computers.

AstroCB

*comic

yellowantphil

2:12 AM

is that Explain xkcd’s fault?

AstroCB

Yes.

tchrist

@yellowantphil The borqed C♯ pogromizers also miscount characters in comments.

yellowantphil

or has xkcdBot evolved bad grammar, learning from bjb

AstroCB

If any of them don't work, it's SE chat's fault.

yellowantphil

@tchrist yeah, I only got half my allocation of cats

AstroCB

2:13 AM

Although if it's too long, it should strip it down to two sentences.

tchrist

@yellowantphil Again, they don’t know how to count. These are the same people who brought you 1 files deleted.

AstroCB

try {
        sendMess("> " + pars[parToUse].textContent);
    } catch (e) {
        try {
          setTimeout(500);
            // Too long; use first two sentences
            var sentences = pars[parToUse].textContent.split(".");
            var mess = sentences[0] + "." + sentences[1];
            sendMess("> " + mess);
        } catch (e) {
            try {
              setTimeout(500);
                // Still too long? Try first paragraph
                sendMess("> " + pars[0].textContent);

Braiam

@tchrist they accidentally the UTF-16

yellowantphil

I am getting U+FFFD U+200C U+200B U+FFFD everywhere that the cats break in my comment

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Get a definite weight loss cleaning formula by abinaeverett on math.stackexchange.com

tchrist

2:15 AM

@Braiam The stoopiders think they are using UCS-2.

yellowantphil

zero-width non-joiner and zero-width space? Why?

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

AstroCB

I like how it's possible to flag a post as spam and as a duplicate.

hichris123

Math.SE weight loss spam? Okay then.

Braiam

2:17 AM

@hichris123 hey, its about a formula!

hichris123

hah

user259867

@Braiam And it was appropriately tagged markov-chains

tchrist

@yellowantphil That is really really really bad.

My contempt for C♯ and Java and Windows grows ever deeper. Somebody needs to send these kids back to Little Unicode School.

Actually, the right answer is to grep the whole damned SE code base for the Code Stink whose signature this leaves. It would be easy.

Fix it once and for all and then forbid every using those stoopid code units again. Use code points || die.

yellowantphil

I wonder if cat spam breaks in answers too

I hesitate to add an answer just for that, since it would be NAA

hichris123

I feel like @tchrist wants to poke balpha.

Braiam

2:25 AM

@yellowantphil doubtfully, it uses html tags to format the text

tchrist

@hichris123 I am willing to dispense Unicode flamelessons to SE staff completely gratis.

yellowantphil

@tchrist you could add comments to your bug report

tchrist

@yellowantphil Moar?

I did that just a second ago.

yellowantphil

I don’t see it

tchrist

@Braiam Right: it’s specific to people who mistreat the variable-length encoding UTF-16 as though it were the obsolete fixed-width encoding UCS-2. Not naming any names. It’s part of the lie they tell you when they say 255 characters left in a comment. Those aren’t: they’re lying because they are not counting characters but say that are. — tchrist 8 mins ago

Or did you mean the offer of free flamelessons? :)

yellowantphil

2:27 AM

I meant tag your question with comments

Oh.

or approve my edit

ok

so I collect my precious 2 rep

hichris123

I feel like the question needs more upvotes: this is obviously the most important thing for SE devs to work on.

tchrist

2:28 AM

@yellowantphil Do you get that even for added tags?

yellowantphil

@tchrist yep

I probably got a two badges too

tchrist

@hichris123 BOUNTY! BOUNTY! BOUNTY!

AstroCB

0

Q: Change request for linguistics.stackexchange CSS font-family list

Recently I raised a question on meta.linguistics.stackexchange about which fonts are used to render text formatted as code. Briefly: linguists often need to add diacritics to distinguish speech sounds, and diacritics don't align properly in some typefaces (the question has a couple screenshots if...

bug design

Shouldn't that be on M.SE?

tchrist

@yellowantphil DOUBLE-BADGER!

hichris123

I'm only going to bounty if I get above 3k rep again. :P

Braiam

2:29 AM

en: Mother's memento -> es: La Madre de Memento!?!?!??!??!

tchrist

The starboard is twink�ing.

4

AstroCB

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2

Whoa.

yellowantphil

@AstroCB what is that from?

AstroCB

@yellowantphil I just pasted the character in tchrist's last message a bunch of times and it somehow rendered like that.

yellowantphil

strange

tchrist

2:33 AM

I’m completely serious about the stupid code smell in all those guys’ C♯ code. They do need to root out the stench and the horror once and for all.

yellowantphil

but will any of the devs realize that?

Braiam

googleratings.com/some. aspx

tchrist

@yellowantphil Apparently not. They have the brain-bug.

Bring them here: I shall have Words with them. Let them come, I say.

2

Braiam

what the...

yellowantphil

I only got Organizer from that edit, not Editor :-/

thunderstorm abrewing outside here ☔

minitech

2:38 AM

100k on Stack Overflow \o/

yellowantphil

\o/

Braiam

downvotes

several times

tchrist

I propose that all SE programmers be forced to sign the 𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕮𝖔𝖉𝖊.

In blood.

𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕀 𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕞𝕪 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕟 𝕠𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝕊𝔼 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕀 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕌ℂ𝕊-𝟚 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕌𝕋𝔽-𝟙𝟞 𝕟𝕠𝕣 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕌𝕋𝔽-𝟙𝟞.
𝚄𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝙸 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚗 𝚘𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝙴 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚄𝙲𝚂-𝟸 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚄𝚃𝙵-𝟷𝟼 𝚗𝚘𝚛 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚄𝚃𝙵-𝟷𝟼.

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yellowantphil

𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕮𝖔𝖉𝖊

tchrist

2:45 AM

Aye.

@Braiam So pena de muerte is the new finalizer. :)

Bountied.

Braiam

@tchrist use Latin, is more solemn

tchrist

@Braiam True.

Braiam

knows his stuff

tchrist

But if they don’t know Unicode, I abandon all hope that they shall be able to figure out Latin.

draws a new Circle of Hell for programmers who confuse code points for code units

casts programmers who confuse pointers and integers into the supercited circle

@Braiam Maybe I’ll just add some more terza rima to Dante for them. :)

I mean, it’s kinda Latin. :)

I know where the next Unicode emoji are coming from. . . .

yellowantphil

3:13 AM

I have roomba’d 1.8% of the questions on travel.SE recently... didn’t realize how few questions they have at first

bjb568

heh

yellowantphil

no, it’s probably more like 1.7%

the awkward thing is that they have a competition on travel meta where people guessed how long it would take to reach 11,111 questions. Now that I think about it, @bjb participated

they would be well past that question count if it weren’t for me :-|

confessions of a roomba’er

bjb568

"'" use it

yellowantphil

I didn’t find out about the competition until the damage was already done

tchrist

@bjb568 What’s wrong?

You’ve forgotten your close-quote.

@yellowantphil Speaking of damage already done: techworm.net/2015/03/…

bjb568

3:18 AM

w00t, you win because of roomba! — bjb568 10 secs ago

tchrist

> What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Any page with ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܝܬ ܐܦܪܝܡ will crash the chrome tab on a Mac
2. Just create any dummy page with the unicode characters, and the Mac Chrome tab will crash hard

What is the expected result?
Expect it not to crash

What happens instead?
It crashes

yellowantphil

@bjb568 I am going to get banned now. Alas. Guess I had it coming

Braiam

> What is the expected result?
Expect it not to crash

What happens instead?
It crashes

2

tchrist

heh

For the record, the murderous "ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܝܬ ܐܦܪܝܡ" string is "\N{SYRIAC LETTER YUDH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER WAW}\N{SYRIAC LETTER HETH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER NUN}\N{SYRIAC LETTER NUN} \N{SYRIAC LETTER BETH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER YUDH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER TAW} \N{SYRIAC LETTER ALAPH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER PE}\N{SYRIAC LETTER RISH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER YUDH}\N{SYRIAC LETTER MIM}"

Braiam

byebye @bjb568

yellowantphil

3:22 AM

so how many browsers crashed just now

bjb568

I not go bye.

I'm on safari.

tchrist

@bjb568 A crucible steel made in southern India by fusing magnetic iron ore with carbonaceous matter.

yellowantphil

well that’s a relief

tchrist

I’m on Safari. Still here.

Braiam

@bjb568 you are missing all the fun :P

bjb568

3:23 AM

tested on chrome, no repro

tchrist

Maybe they fixèd it.

durron597

Ummm I just got java gold badge on SO but I didn't think I was even close to it

My activity page only says 775 next to the tag

bjb568

Version 42.0.2311.90 (64-bit)

durron597

Is that a bug? Or am I scoring it wrong?

bjb568

Mac OS X 10.10.3 if it matters.

tchrist

3:24 AM

@durron597 It doesn’t update the count right away.

bjb568

shouldiblamecaching.com

durron597

@tchrist I didn't suddenly get 225 upvotes in the last week

bjb568

probably borked

post on meta

Gah, seal lullaby is stuck in my head.

Braiam

@durron597 quickly, clean up the whole dup queue of the java tag!

durron597

@Braiam srsly

bjb568

3:27 AM

vry srsly

yellowantphil

srsly srsly

bjb568

srsly vry srsly

Andrew T.

@durron597 you got 143 from questions and 775 from answers (both non-wiki) = 480 posts with 918 scores... perhaps you got the badge before some posts were being roomba-ed

yellowantphil

@bjb568 wot iz dis

^ I hope I spelled that correctly

bjb568

it iz singlequot

U SHUD OOZE

yellowantphil

3:34 AM

are you objecting to my ’ ? too curly?

tchrist

It’s because he doesn’t know how to “type” these fancy–shmancy bits.

bjb568

@yellowantphil yes

@tchrist I choose to not

yellowantphil

apostrophe-hater!

durron597

@AndrewT. I don't think questions count. And also that's still almost 100 votes

tchrist

Shh! You’ll attract the Apo’strophic Jihad!

bjb568

3:36 AM

oh noes

Andrew T.

@durron597 oh yeah, I misread the badge info. Strange bug.

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yellowantphil

@tchrist how do you spell “roomba’er”?

durron597

shrug

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Q: Did I get my gold tag badge incorrectly?

On StackOverflow, I have 428 java questions answered with a total score of 775 as of the writing of this post. However, I was just awarded the Java tag badge. Am I counting the score wrong? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have it, I just want to make sure everything is as it's supposed to be.