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Shadow Wizard

3:00 PM

@Fawad oh

Jason C

Hehe

Journeyman Geek

I generally like animals ;p

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek humans are animals too

Jason C

Some day when I have my own house with a yard

I was hoping Vinnie would be able to live long enough to experience that :/

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I like some humans ;)

Fawad

3:01 PM

qz.com/953978/…

Jason C

He stayed at my parents house for about a year and a half, though, they have a big house, and enclosed outdoor areas that he could hang out in. So he did get the joy of large areas to run around in.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC nice! Real model... ;)

Jason C

My previous apartments were much bigger, too.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek normal humans?

Journeyman Geek

3:02 PM

with normal human hands? Those I am a little suspecious of.

Jason C

Haha, ok, I will also admit that there are a small handful of humans that I do not mind in moderation.

My sister and her family are super cool, so are my cousins. And I even know a few people here in NYC who don't suck.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jason C

Man. On a totally different note, I want to marry basically every doctor at the animal hospital. Holy crap.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jason C

They're all about my age, they're all gorgeous, they're all smart and successful.

I asked one out on a date a few years ago and she said she didn't date clients, lol.

I never tried again.

I feel like the collection of desirable women at this hospital rivals old school Pan Am flight attendants.

Journeyman Geek

3:12 PM

lol

Jason C

Later I found out that the one I asked out quit her job there and is dating the medical director, lol.

heartbreak

Oh, feelings of inadequacy, I love you.

Without looking: YES YOU DID EVERYTHING WRONG

looks

Oh whatever

Fawad

@JasonC let me know

Journeyman Geek

@Fawad does that belong here?

Jason C

That's his choice don't take it personally.

Fawad

@JourneymanGeek in shadows den

Journeyman Geek

3:17 PM

What happens in vegas needs to stay in vegas

Jason C

Theres 8 or something billion people on this planet, you're an idiot if you expect to get along with all of them. Most of them will not like you.

Also, that ^

Fawad

@JasonC OK,let me know whenever I make mistakes

Jason C

No

I philosophically refuse to

Your mistakes in my eyes are only in my eyes. I'm not some sort of universal judge.

Journeyman Geek

as I once told someone on root access

Jason C

You keep on doing whatever you're doing, it's none of my business.

Journeyman Geek

3:18 PM

I'm not your baby sitter ;)

I don't even have mod or RO powers, or even the slightest standing here ;p

OH

Jason C

→ 1 message moved to Chimney

Journeyman Geek

I get to see chat flags here, right?

lol

Jason C

How much time do I have to delete? I forget

Journeyman Geek

er I seem to recall 5 minutes

Jason C

Hm, no it's definitely < 3 minutes. I can't delete a 3 minute old message above.

1 minute confirmed

Journeyman Geek

3:22 PM

And its not really an issue cause I have no limits on chat.se ;p

rene

@JasonC I thought 2 minutes

Jason C

Yup

2 minutes just confirmed

rene

I use an US for that i.stack.imgur.com/KeZDv.png see the red line: that is the 2 minute marker

Jason C

I am going insane waiting for the doctor to call

Oh neat

Hey can I have that script?

rene

I was afraid you were going to ask that ...

hold on ...

Jason C

3:24 PM

Lol

Don't worry about it if it's a pain

I can put one together too

rene

@JasonC here it is raw: raw.githubusercontent.com/Aralun/SO-chat-things/master/…

Jason C

Sweet thanks

Nice

rene

You have to thank @kyll over in SOCVR

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jason C

It's fun to watch the lines ominously advance forward on their own.

I feel like I have to keep talking so they don't catch up.

Oh god the green one is getting closer

Mithrandir

3:30 PM

(I just tried to look at the deleted chat message. I'm getting too used to being blue o_o)

Jason C

People like you are why I have to move chat messages, lol.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@JasonC he can't see them anyway

lol. Its slightly trippy being here for site mods ;p

Mithrandir

Mhm.

Jason C

Lol

Mithrandir

I'm not the only one who peeks at deleted messages... *wiggles eyebrows*

Journeyman Geek

3:33 PM

lol

Mithrandir

@JasonC probably not as many as around here...

rene

The main incentive to become a mod/RO/10K: look at deleted things.

Journeyman Geek

lol

yup

tho, becoming mod here is tricky ;)

Mithrandir

*applies for job as youngest CM ever*

Jason C

I wonder why the Java syntax highlighting highlights the word object.

Journeyman Geek

3:36 PM

lol

oddly I'm not even sure how that mostly works ;p

@Mithrandir or dev or SRE

I'm sure there's a few other roles that might be diamondy

Fawad

@JourneymanGeek SRE means?

Mithrandir

@JourneymanGeek can't be a dev, I don't code

Journeyman Geek

@Mithrandir !!!

Neither do I ;p

Jon Ericson

@Fawad Site Reliability Engineer.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

not sure if its a googlism or not, but essentially a sysadmin + +

rene

3:39 PM

@JasonC probably a reserved word since version 0.1 of the spec. What is our language about? Objects! Ok, let's make object a reserved word. That is one, what is next... the rest is history and the syntax highlighters follow a formal spec?

Journeyman Geek

in a sense, they keep the ~~hamsters~~ unicorns running

Jason C

@rene Actually I'm just now discovering it doesn't generally highlight object. Just in this one specific case. Trying to narrow it down.

Hmmmmm

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC could be java messing with your sanity

rene

You found a bug. I'm not telling yet if it is in your code or somewhere else ...

Jason C

It highlights object in the inner loops of stackoverflow.com/a/21963189/616460 but I cannot construct code to reproduce that. It's weird.

E.g. not highlighted in i.snag.gy/87mtBL.jpg

Oh it only does it with the default java highlighter, but not if lang-java is explicitly specified. That's weird.

Ah, meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/… says it uses a "default generic highlighter". That makes sense. I always thought it picked the specific highlighter based on the tag.

Bart

3:45 PM

@rene even if it's in your code you say "It's not us, but I think I can work around it"

rene

true ... and guilty ...

Jason C

Oh it's because it's tagged both java and xml, so it defaults to the generic one

rene

@JasonC yeah I have described the behavior of the generic one here

M.A.R.

4:44 PM

@Fawad Nope

user315433

> Fun fact: JAVA stands for "JAVA's A Valid Acronym" -- David Haney at 9:18 AM - 12 Apr 2017

user315433

> Guess why my son is named "Yuri"? twitter.com/RSGovUK/status/852040617194471425 … -- Marco Cecconi at 7:50 AM - 12 Apr 2017

user315433

Because having a foreign name builds character?

user315433

"Are your parents Russians or just communists?"

rene

5:01 PM

@Gerry is that your pick up line?

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek "SRE is Google's approach to the devops philosophy"

Anonymous

I think something like that was the line

user315433

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A: Why Would Aliens Enslave Humans?

What do you mean? You feeling okay? Of course, they already do , as everyone knows perfectly well--as we breathe, dear friend, as we breathe.

user315433

@rene No, that one is ^

rene

:D

user315433

5:05 PM

0

A: Advanced care of an indoor avocado plant

My avocado has no leafs. It just looks like a tall stem. advice welcomed...

user315433

"Check if it's not a cactus?"

Jason C

5:20 PM

Lol

"first time avocado grower"

user315433

8:09 PM

Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe is a user on mastodon.technology. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse

user315433

Seriously... mastodon.technology

Jon Ericson

@Gerry Well named. The page might load before the next ice age.

user315433

8:42 PM

Elon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.

user315433

Still no Stack Exchange site for Notepad++ :(

user315433

9:20 PM

Area 51 Discussion Zone got a moderator... those Russian hackers again. :-/

user315433

9:54 PM

0

A: When I Press Install Ubuntu It Won't Let ME

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? I thought not. It's not a story a jedi would tell you. It's a Sith Legend. Darth Plagueis was a dark lord of the sith so powerful and so wise he could use the force to influence the midichlorians to create... Life. He had such a knowledge ...

Journeyman Geek

10:46 PM

yeah. lol. A recruiter from google's SRE team got in touch with me ages ago, probably due to SU I kiiiinda blew it I think. Ended up doing a ton of research on that.

Happens every time I get my hopes up on working for a place XD

and Tom Limoncelli's an SEer (though I see him quoted more than postin ;p) so I wouldn't be surprised at some of the same philosophies in use.

@Gerry isn't he the russian CM?

user315433

Well... employees are suppressed from moderator lists. So if he's there...

Journeyman Geek

lol

A51 is one of the parts of SE whose mechanics totally befuddle me.

yup, he's on the employee page. Oddly I don't remember seeing him on the CM post on meta when I was fixing animuson's flair.

ah he is

Shog9

11:09 PM

So, the problem there isn't that Nicolas isn't marked as an employee... It's that his Discuss profile isn't linked to either his Area51 profile or his network account.

there's a merge gone wrong here somewhere, I suspect