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tchrist

12:11 AM

@Shog9 No: that I lost zero rep in the quoted snarls.

Shog9

heh

SmokeDetector

12:49 AM

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hichris123

@tchrist Poor you. Maybe we need more Perl docs. ;)

tchrist

Considering that I also wrote or rewrote all the original perl man pages, and perl faqs, not to mention thousands of pages of perl books, that's saying something.

hichris123

That's why I said that. ;)

tchrist

What's the line about any business requirement about needing smarter customers is doomed to failure?

Because I keep wanting to suggest it, and I keep getting shot down. :)

hichris123

What exactly needing smarter "customers"?

tchrist

1:06 AM

Better customers ask better questions.

hichris123

Ah. So what would you be suggesting then? Eventual doom, the future is bleak, the world will end?

tchrist

Final exam: Compare and contrast the varying pros and cons of both curating and crowd sourcing in the context of contemporary information repositories.

hichris123

That's... more like a graduate thesis than a final exam. :P

bjb568

It could be either, depending on the level of detail.

hichris123

Well, if you're only writing a limited amount on it, you either don't understand the topic or haven't fully thought out everything.

bjb568

1:19 AM

You can definitely compress it down to a few pages for a final exam.

hichris123

1:49 AM

Can't say I'm overly-familiar with this logic, but I'd guess it might reset the backoff if you keep trying, @hichris123 - otherwise a badly-designed client would just keep hammering away until the request went through. — Shog9 ♦ 1 min ago

@Shog9 I thought that might be it, but you can see the timeline here - first a backoff of 10 seconds, a violation 1 second later, then the next request 14 seconds later - still a violation.

user202362

persistent client, I like that ...

user202362

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Shog9

@hichris123 you sure that's the only place that client is hitting the API?

nothing else with the same key / token / IP?

hichris123

Fairly positive -- obviously I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure.

Shog9

2:05 AM

@hichris123 because your timeline... Is odd.

You get the backoff, then retry 1 second later instead of waiting 10

Then you wait 12 seconds - I assume that's something the app decided on as a reasonable response to a backoff error - and retry three times.

Then you retry again 15 seconds later, and again twice more 14 seconds after that

Which suggests some combination of errors to me:

hichris123

@Shog9 Well, the short version is we have terrible handling of backoffs. It's multithreaded, so a couple threads will be fighting to retry their request immediately after the backoff ends. However... we still never receive another backoff from the API - it just keeps saying we violated the backoff and nothing more.

Shog9

1) you're relying on system timers that do not have a guaranteed rate of fire and can and do batch up triggers.
2) you're not actually debouncing triggers.

@hichris123 ok, that's just dumb then.

nothing the API can do will fix that

hichris123

... thanks, I guess?

My point is that it should be telling us that the backoff was extended.

Shog9

@hichris123 I kinda don't think it is

At least, I can't find anywhere in the code where it would be

bjb568

Why not use one of those fancy things where the backoff_until date and the callback pointeris stored at one memory location that all thread see?

Shog9

2:10 AM

again, it's possible that it resets if you keep hitting it, and I'm just missing that; first time I've ever looked at this code

But... Outside of crazy error conditions, you shouldn't be hitting it anyway

hichris123

@Shog9 Hmm. The simplest way I found to reproduce it was just click run on api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers 11 times (once per second). After the 11th time, it still says you've violated the backoff.

Shog9

Not trying to be mean, but the API is pretty well-defined in this area and from the sound of it the design of the app makes it all but impossible to fulfill the conditions set out.

hichris123

@Shog9 True.

bjb568

So the takeaway is that you should use DevDoodle because there's no rate limiting on the API?

hichris123

Obviously.

Shog9

2:13 AM

Ideally, you have something to manage your requests; you're not trying to handle this every place you need something from the API, and whatever is handling them for you is also keeping track of the rate at which you're hitting it, any backoffs that might be in place, etc.

hichris123

I'm also somewhat confused why we're suddenly getting backoffs -- is server load increased or something? Nothing major changed in our code related to API handling, and yet backoffs suddenly increased sometime in August: chat.stackexchange.com/….

Shog9

That frees you up to queue requests, feed them in at a reasonable rate, log everything in a consistent way and most importantly: not make any when there's a backoff in place.

@hichris123 not sure what you're doing there, but it's entirely possible that it got slower

hichris123

@Shog9 While I agree, there's the time vs. benefit tradeoff. And it worked for us for a good year-ish until recently, so...

I mean, usually we only saw backoffs close to 3 UTC or midnight UTC (times of high server load). Now we see them all the time.

Shog9

@hichris123 are you getting any errors along with the backoff?

or is everything working, but now there are more backoffs?

hichris123

The second one. Just more backoffs.

bjb568

2:17 AM

Wow. fold.it is still in beta. I played it like 6 years ago on an ancient iMac. Ah, the memories…

hichris123

It's also interesting that hitting /answers on SO without any parameters gives an immediate backoff of 10 seconds. Perhaps there's a bad query in there or something?

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hichris123

Although that shouldn't affect us, we rarely hit /answers.

user310756

@Shog9 can you please come to chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/41570/so-close-vote-reviewers

Shog9

@hichris123 the backoff is actually based on how expensive the request is. If it takes more than a little bit of time - even if it's successful - it'll tell you to back off.

@Yvette I can in a little bit; just finishing supper. What's up?

user310756

2:19 AM

There's some disgusting people going out of there way to make women feel demoralised

user310756

@Shog9 they won't stop the line of chat

user310756

that's why I came here

user202362

just troll back

user202362

works every time for me

user310756

@Telkitty I'm trying not to get into arguments

hichris123

2:20 AM

@Shog9 Right. I suspect something similar to meta.stackexchange.com/a/244314/237685 is going on -- maybe that should be another bug report...

Shog9

@Yvette ok, well, I'll look in a little bit. They can... wait for me, so to speak.

user310756

@Shog9 thanks

Shog9

@hichris123 sounds like it

JamesENL

2:52 AM

I want to watch "The 'Shog-ening"

user202362

x 2

hichris123

→ 3 messages moved to Sandbox

... oops, that invited you to the sandbox, @Yvette. Sorry. :/

user310756

3:09 AM

@hichris123 lol it's cool ;)

hichris123

I wonder how many times I've invited Smokey to the Sandbox. Smokey must like sandcastles by now...

JamesENL

4:02 AM

Why is that person shanking Firefox? How is Firefox sexist?

user202362

coz modified this

user202362

JamesENL

Ahhhh fair enough

JamesENL

4:28 AM

SOCVR is going off so I'll ask this here. How the hell do you strikethrough in chat?

the usual suspects don't work

user310756

three --- on either side ~~like this~~

JamesENL

ahhh thanks!

user310756

;)

Magisch

Morning

Jason C

cv, dupe, stackoverflow.com/questions/39503002 (of stackoverflow.com/questions/29197521), i messed up and wasted my hammer.

JamesENL

6:13 AM

@Yvette should we break Drew's heart and tell him Shog showed up because you asked and the burnination topic was his clever way to move the discussion on?

Shadow Wizard

6:40 AM

@JNat not a troll or spammer this time, but a user who post very poor answers all around the network, to old questions: stackexchange.com/users/8732591/ty-smith?tab=activity

(one of his answers on MSE was already deleted by Adam, other one flagged by me)

What you think we should do?

user310756

8:09 AM

@JamesENL yeh I know ... don't break his heart

JNat

8:26 AM

@ShadowWizard Meh, just let 'em be. I've deleted the answer on MSE you flagged. They only seem to have contributed with poor answers there, aside from a single one on SF, which is deleted too. It's not like they're leaving a massive amount of new crappy answers all over the network (at least for now), so I wouldn't do anything. If they keep it up, they'll get blocked anyway, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hichris123

10:40 AM

→ 34 messages moved to Sandbox

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11:06 AM

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rene

11:22 AM

needs a final delete vote: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/284567/upgrading-my-schwinn

needs two more delete votes: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/284566/…

Ferrybig

Is my combined user flair only broken for me, or for everyone? (shows internal server error for me)

Bart

@rene voted on the 2nd. Already did so on the 1st

That's what I see

rene

11:40 AM

I see what he ^ sees

Bart

That's ... disturbing ...

rene

Yes ... it is ...

user202362

Magisch

There is a flower in here

Shadow Wizard

There is a smiley in here

rene

11:55 AM

I'm so much offended when people think that my username should start with a capital...

user202362

rENE

rene

:D

Magisch

@rene rEnE

rene

You had to push it, right?

Bart

12:13 PM

Hey @Yvette. Chat works again?

user310756

@Bart yes, it's driving me crazy

Bart

So a very intermittent issue then? That's weird

user310756

I am changing things in my Norton settings

user310756

well interesting thing

JamesENL

Just something I've realised. The Chat notification sound is the same as the Star Trek door sound. You clever coders!

user310756

12:15 PM

I clicked on a link in a smoke detector report

user310756

and it was porn

user310756

INSTANTLY I could not get into chat

user310756

I think it's my anti virus software

Bart

... hmm, that's interesting

So Norton would block you from a site, if it had a link leading to something problematic

user310756

@Bart perhaps?

user310756

12:17 PM

and I just changed some settings in Norton and can get back in

Bart

Hah. Norton doesn't have logs that show you what it did?

Don't use it myself

rene

Let's try to link to offensive stuff to see if we can block @Yvette again ...

user310756

lol

user310756

yeh I knew it was a conspiracy

rene

all for science ...

Bart

12:19 PM

A picture of your face @rene?

High five anyone? Anyone? No? ...

rene

pretty offensive, yeah

user310756

well if Norton things stack chat is offensive,. then my meta question is moot

Bart

:D

user310756

;)

user310756

@Bart high five (flower squashed in middle)

user202362

12:23 PM

kinky ...

user202362

I mean

user310756

@Telkitty lol

user310756

I was meaning, like a flower- literally

Magisch

I'm a smiley my mouth is ~65% of my face

:D

user310756

@Magisch so a big mouth? literally

Magisch

12:25 PM

an apt metaphor for my social skills

(or the lack thereof)

user310756

we're all renowned for our social skills on here

rene

@Yvette oyi ...

user310756

@rene yo?

rene

I tried to mimic the sound I make when smashed ...

user202362

that's too intense for me ~faints~

user310756

12:31 PM

@rene ahhh

rene

fans are fainting, I'm a pop-star

Bart

Pretty much the Bieber of the flower world

Derpy

Still trying to find a way to rearrange the letters in @rene name to write out "Serial Murderer".

Explanation of the joke here: 1, 2, 3

JamesENL

@Bart harsh dude

Derpy

12:46 PM

(Yep, @rene. We still think you must be the same flower. Or a close relative)

Bart

I know @JamesENL. It's just that I dislike the Dutch. That's all.

Magisch

I always picture @rene as the flower from undertale

user310756

@Bart do you like the Austin Power movies? Michael Caine. there's only two types of people I can't stand in this world, bigots and the Dutch

Bart

@Yvette I might have been referring to that. And of course i'm Dutch myself. :)

user310756

@Bart ah of course, so you can insult them. gotcha

rene

1:00 PM

@Yvette oh, nice you give him the go-ahead with his insults.

user310756

@rene whenever anyone insults someone for being Dutch I think of that movie

user310756

the movies are so stupid they're funny

user202362

raccoon emojis, good idea or not?

user310756

@Telkitty you are around the corner from me

user202362

where are you

user310756

1:05 PM

I'm at St Ives

user202362

true, very close, like 20-30 minutes drive

user310756

I'm also looking for an ios developer to do a small fix

user310756

yep

user202362

I am going for a holiday for 2-3 weeks next Monday

user310756

@Telkitty can I email you?

user202362

1:06 PM

yeah

user310756

I have a job we're about to advertise, will only take 1-2 days

user310756

I've never programmed ios

user310756

email sent

user310756

got it

user310756

email sent through website and from gmail

user202362

1:10 PM

yeah I have received it, but if it's for something urgent, I suggest you contact someone else

user310756

@Telkitty sure thanks

user310756

Good to meet you

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user202362

also I generally take on whole new app development from scratch and not do bug fixes based on hourly rate

user310756

yep that's ok

user310756

1:15 PM

We took over the whole project including the web app. I can manage the android app, the ios app is buggy

user202362

what's it written in?

user202362

swift or objective C?

user310756

both

user310756

don't laugh

user310756

we want to do a rewrite into C# with xamarin, but just need to fix a couple of things in the meantime

user202362

1:16 PM

I have an app that's on the market which I have written 5 years ago and have not touched since

user310756

they had a wordpress site and webapp, which we've rewritten into asp.net/ mvc / C#

user202362

why? wordpress not good enough?

user310756

@Telkitty this one crashes when the notification is pressed. We think we know the cause, but cannot test it well enough.

user310756

@Telkitty the php web app and database were not very good

user202362

you know you can customize wordpress - it's written in PHP & mySql right

user310756

1:18 PM

yep

user310756

it was customized, poorly

user310756

and the previous developer bought a package for plugins, so they needed to be removed and readded, could not just be updated

user310756

the db was so bad, there was one table with so many null values to cater for such a variety of types within it. The types didn't belong in the same table

user202362

so whoever customize the wordpress didn't do a complete job

user310756

nope

user310756

1:20 PM

it was changed and code was just commented out in both the php and android

user310756

empty classes left

user310756

it was a mess

user202362

I messed around with wordpress, domain name, IP etc for a little while, then things start to break at places where you least expect them

user310756

I don't like word press. It can be expensive anyway

user202362

you mean plugin packages?

user202362

1:23 PM

wordpress itself is free?

Magisch

@Yvette we have a single table to process EDI / EDIFACT requests

user310756

yes, but I more mean paying a developer to customise a web app

user310756

@Magisch this database was terrible. The business logic changed and the database was just changed to add null values to tables, rather than a proper refactor

user202362

Oo, I do all my own customization

Magisch

@Yvette Our edi database is equally terrible. It has 689 columns, and the usual request fills about 20

user310756

1:26 PM

@Magisch I can't comment.

user310756

There are rules for databases that can be used to work out if they are efficient

user202362

My VPS provider is very good, I get some help from them

user310756

we work as a team for corporate clients

Derpy

@Yvette noticed your question on meta, expect a reply later when I have time.

user310756

@Derpy oky doky

Derpy

1:30 PM

I am starting getting pretty annoyed about this whole "how you dare to flag" thing...

user310756

that is what upset me

user310756

Not the comment, those things will happen, it's the community reaction to the flag to the comment and how that caused a cascade of comments. that really upset me. It's like: Have I entered the Twilight zone?

user310756

I missed than dang nabbit

user310756

ah really

user310756

we should meet!

tchrist

1:33 PM

Sim?

user202362

Yeah, we should

Magisch

@Derpy Lots of people are super salty about the chat flag system since there is no option between "This is an appropiate post" and "Tempban the user for this"

user310756

well we have our emails now. I will give you my number. You are the closest person to me on SO!

user202362

lol

user310756

literally

Derpy

1:37 PM

@Magisch there isn't? Very strange, all the times I flagged inappropriate posts (see all the multiple offenses to Kalina for an example of the kind of stuff) and the room backfired at it the result was at best removed post + 30 seconds ban.

Bart

The power of Telkitty and Yvette combined ... I fear the Tavern is in danger. :p

Derpy

Seems to me that whoever was handling those flags had plenty of options to slip them under the carpet imho

user310756

@Bart oooh yes... it will be great to meet someone from here!

user202362

yeah I replied

Magisch

@Derpy If you get repedeatly flagged (same user) the ban lenghts escalate

Derpy

1:39 PM

@Magisch Aaaaand what is the bad part in this?

Magisch

Most people view bans as an extreme measure, inappropiat for people they think have just overshot chat a little

user310756

@Telkitty yeh I look like my pic. I'm a 49 year old woman. (not like really a 60 year old man)

Magisch

I'm not agreeing with it, thats just the vibe I got from the lounge

@Derpy There is a pretty strong feeling of encapsulation within chatrooms

user202362

I look like my picture

Magisch

going so far as that many many people think if someone is offended by crude language, they should just leave the chatroom.

There was a whole meta crapstorm about it earlier this year and it got downvoted to -160 by the general community

user310756

1:42 PM

well we have lift off.. ready to take over the SO @Telkitty ;)

Bart

@Magisch link?

Derpy

@Magisch and that is exactly why people need to finally realize they are still on stack and not drinking grog in a far away buccaneer's den on Tortuga island.

user310756

@Derpy exactly!

user310756

particularly in rooms that are for moderation

Derpy

And do beware that I try to be far more reasonable in flagging over other rooms of what I would do in my room. But there is a bare minimum one should always enforce

Like, if you really have to post a questionable image as part of your joke avoid to onebox it

the people interested in your joke will probably still click it if you use a link but I won't have to see it.

and that is just considering posting of contents that may or may not begin questionable based on the viewer sensibility.

user310756

1:52 PM

I'm going to bed. night all

Derpy

rudeness to other users isn't likely to be something open to subjective interpretation.

night

Btw, since you are actually here...

@ArtOfCode

> In essence: "What is and isn't inappropriate" is a community process that can and should be overridden by moderators where necessary.

I think that the mayor problem we have here is that some of those communities agreed on a standard that is simply "not-strict-enough" and that isn't going to work well just because "the community get to decide". The mod can and should override, but the point is that they shouldn't come to this point in the first place

(and when they have to, I still think that the result should be more fearsome that what it is now. I want to see the sign of the fire and the burning on those chat rooms wall for a while...)

@Bart ^ happy? Now you have a photo of Rene.

tchrist

2:08 PM

Fanged.

Shadow Wizard

Who is Rene?

Are Rene and Bjb friends?

Derpy

@tchrist Not my fault if Asriel is the long lost brother of Sue Sakamoto...

bjb568

2:37 PM

@ShadowWizard Just our resident friendly flower.

Derpy

Wondering.

Has anyone actually ever asked why stack exchange still allows for external images hosts in posts/chat?

(where external means anything but stack.imgur)

rene

@Derpy yes, here

Derpy

2:53 PM

@rene Thanks. Was searching for "disable external image providers". Found nothing. Must be blind.

rene

@Derpy I borrowed @Bart's glasses to find it ...

I love the pings ... I hope he does as well...

Bart

My headphones ran out of battery. I hear nozzink

tchrist

@Bart Try not sticking the pen so far up your nostrils.

Bart

But I like how it tickles my brain

Derpy

Should I be worried that the more the time passes, the more I am starting to think of @Bart as someone pretty close to Uncle Grandpa?

user202362

3:15 PM

Uncle != Grandpa

tchrist

@Telkitty That varies by family.

user202362

eww ...

Derpy

Uncle Grandpa

Uncle Grandpa is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network that premiered on the network on September 2, 2013. The series is based on Browngardt's animated short of the same name from The Cartoonstitute. Uncle Grandpa is also a spin-off of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, which was in turn a spin-off of the Cartoonstitute short. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The show is a surreal action-adventure comedy that relies extensively on visual gags and catchphrases. Creator Pete Browngardt has cited the work of cartoonists Don Martin, Gary Larson...

not a big fan, but lately our local tv stations seems to only buy cartoon-network shows.

And.... this is a problem if you prefer anime instead.

Shadow Wizard

@bjb568 so you say @rene is not case sensitive? Or, not sensitive to case?

bjb568

I dunno.

Shadow Wizard

3:21 PM

me Too

Derpy

@ShadowWizard A Rene by any other case is still a flower

Shadow Wizard

but a different flower

tchrist

> Uncle Grandpa has a large rectangular shaped head, a brown horseshoe moustache, pink nose, a red fanny pack that talks, a propeller hat, and an outfit consisting of a white t-shirt, lederhosen with rainbow suspenders, knee high tube socks, and black slippers. His outward appearance is depicted as rather clownish and unsophisticated, but he is well-meaning, fun-loving, supportive, and surprisingly competent when need be. His catchphrase is "Good morning!"

GnomeSlice

Beware, I live

Bart

\o/

user202362

3:30 PM

@tchrist hypothetically, if I take grey hound from L.A. to NY, which national parks or nature attractions can I stop by to visit?

user202362

close to the route of course

tchrist

I don't know what routes are available.

user202362

routes not set, but not too close to the north because that would be cold given spring

tchrist

There are lots, and lots and lots and lots, of places west of the Mississippi. East of it, not so much.

Bart

If you wait a little, you can go south and visit the great wall of America

user202362

3:33 PM

only if trump gets elected, which is uncertain ...

user202362

also wall building is not instant

tchrist

@Bart No no no: the ʍall of america is in the north not the south.

user202362

building continuation of malls between the U.S. and Mexico? what an awesome idea! @tchrist, you rock!

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4:48 PM

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5:28 PM

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tchrist

5:51 PM

@SmokeDetector Why?

SmokeDetector

@tchrist Title - Position 30-31: 🌍

tchrist

What's wrong with it?

rene

it is an charcter in the non-latin range on a latin site?

Shadow Wizard

6:08 PM

!!/test 🌍

SmokeDetector

> Bad character in title
----------
Title - Position 1-2: 🌍

Shadow Wizard

!!/test ☺

SmokeDetector

> Bad character in title
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Title - Position 1-2: ☺

Shadow Wizard

hmm...

!!/test א

SmokeDetector

> Mostly non-latin body, mostly non-latin title
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Title - Text contains 1 non-Latin characters out of 1
Post - Text contains 1 non-Latin characters out of 1

Shadow Wizard

6:09 PM

Looks like any non English character will trigger Smokey

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Registered question as false positive and whitelisted user.

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6:41 PM

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rene

6:55 PM

sd f

Aaron Hall

Alexa on stackoverflow.com: alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com 64th most popular site in the US (global rank of 49), most links seem to come from youtube (?) and AWS (makes sense), it's in the top quartile of all sites in terms of loading speed, and we get more than our fair share of college graduates

Most popular searches that land people here are "favicon size", "git checkout remote branch", "facebook debugger", "jquery checkbox checked", and "unsupported major.minor version 52.0"

Now why does youtube send people here?

Shadow Wizard

Guess where it links to... (source page)

Aaron Hall

7:16 PM

aha!

plus one for the hand-drawn red circle.

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Aaron Hall

Slow week on SO?

stackoverflow.com/site-analytics

traffic seems declining a bit, but this week's an underperforming outlier for me in particular. I'm going to have go out there and start answering real new questions like everyone else! Harumph.

And that's interesting that my week is so down because I just put up a github.io page pointing to a lot of the questions I've answered here (I didn't point directly to my answers...)

Hey, it's ok to link to my site like I do in my profile, right?

rene

@AaronHall yes, it is

Don't link to your own site from posts though, that is considered spam

But you'll get notified here by Smokey if you do ;)

Shadow Wizard

7:38 PM

@AaronHall yay!

@rene nope, he won't report users with more than 200 rep

rene

I'll push a change to report users < 200 rep and @AaronHall

Shadow Wizard

lol

!!/rev

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard 3f840a7 (ArtOfCode: +huintech)

Shadow Wizard

huintech??

hichris123

@tchrist It's in

\p{Block=EnclosedAlphanumerics}|\p{Block=Cherokee}|\p{Block=Georgian}|\p{Block=‌MiscellaneousSymbols}|\p{Block=MiscellaneousSymbolsAndPictographs}

. That list might need adjusting, but the check is only on for titles, and those symbols are very rare in legitimate titles.

tchrist

7:42 PM

Hm.

Why are you using a|b|c|d instead of [abcd] ?

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 but what about ☺? That's just a basic ASCII symbol...

tchrist

If you think the python regex compiler is going to optimize that for you, hahahahaha

hichris123

@tchrist Don't ask me, not my fault. :P Not sure; does it matter a lot?

tchrist

@hichris123 Probably not.

@ShadowWizard beg yer pardon mate?

uniprops -ga ☺
U+263A ‹☺› \N{WHITE SMILING FACE}
    \pS \p{So}
    All Any Assigned InMiscellaneousSymbols Common Zyyy So S Graph Miscellaneous_Symbols Other_Symbol Pat_Syn Pattern_Syntax PatSyn Print Symbol
    Bidi_Class=ON Bidi_Class=Other_Neutral BC=ON Block=Miscellaneous_Symbols Script=Common East_Asian_Width=Neutral General_Category=Other_Symbol GC=So General_Category=S General_Category=Symbol
       General_Category=So GC=S Line_Break=AL Line_Break=Alphabetic LB=AL SC=Zyyy Script=Zyyy

Block=Miscellaneous_Symbols != Block=ASCII

But ’tis Common, aye.

rene

@ShadowWizard just don't make fun about unicode ... you see what happens

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