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Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

1:10 AM

@Catija Where are the best fireworks viewing places for Independence Day in Austin?

Catija

Dunno. Ladybird Lake?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

We stopped going to downtown San Diego to watch the fireworks after a certain incident in 2012

Catija

We don't go to them any more.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Thankfully, the high school near our home shows fireworks, and we can view them from our backyard. Except they do them a day early to cut costs down.

And it's official: a couple of relatives from India have booked a last-minute plane ticket to see us

Gaurang Tandon

2:34 AM

@rene ah, I only now realize what you meant by having to do the clicking :P

I was too sleepy last night :P

@ShadowWizard aye, that's great. Thanks! :)

Somewhat Memorable Name

Grrr, sore throat and insect sting(?) on arm...

Gaurang Tandon

@ShadowWizard that's actually cool. without the diamond, he correctly does not show up in the list for moderators on MSE

@ShadowWizard Though, how did you find them out so quickly? o.O

@rene the SEDE query is helpful...but I have to get the list of all employees for a userscript...I was hoping to fetch the list of all employees every week and store it

Okay, this seems interesting enough, I'll post a self-answer on StackApps

Somewhat Memorable Name

2:56 AM

@GaurangTandon a certain user on SE has already done that here, but it's rendered as web page, not JSON

Gaurang Tandon

@SomewhatMemorableName wow that's great! too bad its source code is hidden though :/ I requested access nevertheless...

> but it's rendered as web page, not JSON

The rendering doesn't matter. I only wish to understand the underlying logic by which they are determining which users are employees.

I also noticed that the script tracks employee additions and deletions (which is pretty cool imo). Apparently, it polls the SE API every day for all users and then filters those with `is_employee` property true. That's as far as I can guess.

John Dvorak

As opposed to performing a query that filters inside the database? Seems vastly inefficient.

John Dvorak

3:45 AM

MFW a community project to clean up mess on Stack Exchange has a spam explanation field before Stack Exchange proper does

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@JohnDvorak It's only there because I pushed for it

github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/issues/1965

Makyen

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog While this answer looks NAA to me, I don't see a reason to report it to SD. The spam answer plagiarized that answer and added the spam links. From the point of view of spam, that answer appears to be just an innocent bystander.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Makyen It looked more to me like it's the same spammer, but they forgot to include the link (or assumed it was stripped off), so they tried again with a new account.

Makyen

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog That's possible, but I'd consider it unlikely.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Makyen FYI: me and @gparyani are the same person :)

John Dvorak

3:52 AM

socks

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@JohnDvorak Go check

Makyen

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Hmmm... that's interesting. Do you switch bodies back and forth? I'd think it would be disorienting.

Somewhat Memorable Name

Been a while browsing the latest 100 comments on SO...

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Makyen @Shadow switches bodies between a hedgehog and a wizard, so...

John Dvorak

That's just werehogism then

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

3:59 AM

@Catija Out of curiosity, where did you end up seeing the fireworks?

Catija

3 hours ago, by Catija

We don't go to them any more.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Catija Oh, I thought you were specifically referring to the Lady Bird Lake ones.

Catija

We have a toddler who goes to sleep at 7... not really possible.

John Dvorak

AM?

Somewhat Memorable Name

both.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

4:01 AM

@Catija Especially when you can hear them from miles away

John Dvorak

them toddler? :P

Somewhat Memorable Name

the lady bird

John Dvorak

Lady Bird (film)

Lady Bird is a 2017 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California, in 2002, it is a coming-of-age story of a high-school senior and her turbulent relationship with her mother. Lady Bird premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2017, and was released in the United States on November 3, 2017 by A24. Critics praised the film's screenplay, direction, and Ronan and Metcalf's performances...

My, that's a loud cinema

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Lady Bird Johnson was President Lyndon B. Johnson's First Lady, and they were from Austin

Thus, there's a Lady Bird Lake in Austin.

Gaurang Tandon

@JohnDvorak what kind of filter would you apply?

John Dvorak

4:07 AM

SELECT ... WHERE

Gaurang Tandon

...actually, I am writing a userscript ;)

so, no SQL is allowed