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Meta Andrew T.

02:42

I'm... kind of alive?

oh, right, Septembrrrrr...

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404

04:53

Some users may be unhappy with MRE and MCVE because these acronyms take an effort to pronounce. Something neater is needed...

For example: Minimal, Instantly Reproducible, And Generic Example - MIRAGE.

Well, I did not try hard.

Tinkeringbell

05:14

Morning!

Journeyman Geek

06:02

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Magisch

06:37

morning

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

plz-delete batch of three: Bharatanatyam course, easyLG package, and Real numbers @rene @Bart @Glorfindel @Sonic

Mithrandir

06:57

m̧̞͉̩̘͓͈͓̳͇ͤ̏͋̇̀̐̒̂͘ơ̯͕̲̓̽ͫ̃̋ͤ͝ͅr̜̻͉̜̗̙̿̊͛̔n̗̝̙̎̂̈́ͩ̐i̫̻͍̪̱̜̰̺̙̇̂̆ͪn̥̟̠̭̮͚̩͚̅͜g̥̲̲͖̈̉͌ͤ͗͛̓͋͗͘

Magisch

@Mithrandir why you gotta start the week with eldritch horrors

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

status-3x-completed

Mithrandir

Seemed as ḡ̯̮͈̩̘o͍̳ͥ̀ö͕̠̟̬̜͉̘́̓̉̈́ͯd̲̜͚͓̏͋ͨ̓ of a choice as any.

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog cheers x 3

@Magisch blame me ;)

Mithrandir

We do that anyway.

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

07:05

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheDragonWizard It's Stephen Rauch's fault.

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

Mithrandir

!!/blame᠎ ‌᠎⁠⁠⁠᠎

SmokeDetector

@Mithrandir It's Shadow The Dragon Wizard's fault.

Mithrandir

;)

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

07:06

lol

Glorfindel

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog welcome to the club.

I already voted to delete those, but here's another one which should bite the dust: meta.stackexchange.com/q/332951/295232

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

07:48

@Glorfindel kaboom

M.A.R.

Now you're just teasing me

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

Who?

Why?

How?

Where?

M.A.R.

When?

Tinkeringbell

What?

M.A.R.

Which?

Tinkeringbell

07:56

Whatever.

Who starred that? Now I look like an unfun person! :P

Mithrandir

You are an unfun person.

;)

Tinkeringbell

Probably true... :P

Meta Andrew T.

Cannot unfun it!

Tinkeringbell

Especially at this moment. I lost 4 weeks of relaxation in 10 minutes this morning :/

Minirant: Vacation was way better than work.

Mithrandir

Well that's a surprise.

Meta Andrew T.

08:10

I code when I'm vacant

wait, wrong word...

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, I hadn't expected this either. I thought I had pretty much tied up every loose end before vacation, but it seems some sagas aren't done yet.

M.A.R.

@MetaAndrewT. vacatn is the right word

. . . Vatican?

Tinkeringbell

@Tinkeringbell that 29 sites have left beta announcement. It's still being featured. How come? More than 30 days have gone by. Is it because it's still a Sunday in the US? But yesterday was the 1st September. — Mari-Lou A 3 hours ago

Anyone know why featured tags stick around longer than 30 days? I thought they'd be gone by then :/

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell Ca-ching, probably

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. For days? It's September second, we're talking about a tag that should've been gone August 31st according to my calculations :/

M.A.R.

08:17

I didn't vote on that particular FR because what does a dropdown solve?

@Tinkeringbell Oh. Hmm . . .

Mithrandir

The last time a diamond edited the tags was August 2. It should be gone by tonight, if I'm right.

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir Huh? It looks at when a diamond edits the tags, not when the featured tag was added?

Mithrandir

I think so

Tinkeringbell

this one weird trick can help you keep a featured tag forever!

Mithrandir

We'll see in six and a half hours, I guess?

Tinkeringbell

08:20

@Mithrandir I hope so! ;)

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

08:32

@Tinkeringbell someone must kick the server side cache, it's not new

Tinkeringbell

08:54

@ShadowTheDragonWizard Oh, kicking. Kicking stuff sounds good :D

Mithrandir

@Tinkeringbell Like this?

;)

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir Oh, do try. I have bigger guns to fire here :P

It'll be fine. Just... another two or three weeks of phone calls and e-mails and managers, I guess....

Mithrandir

Oh, uh, erm, I just remembered I have an urgent errand on a chat server far away from here.

Tinkeringbell

At least I found the 'right' manager, one that does help, just before I went on vacation ;)

Mithrandir

Well, at least you get paid for it?

Tinkeringbell

09:05

@Mithrandir Ehhh.. not really. I get paid to code, not to bicker ;)

Mithrandir

Code a bot to bicker for you. That should solve everything.

Tinkeringbell

Oh well. I'll look at it like pooping on the boss' time.

@Mithrandir At this point, that might work :P I can have it just repeat a few choice words and sentences :P

Mithrandir

Pooping on stuff is something most birds are good at.

Tinkeringbell

Heh. Maybe I should try pooping on a manager then.

Mithrandir

Let us know how that goes :P

Tinkeringbell

09:07

I will ;) Perhaps if I ever go back to retail, I'll try it on my last day on the job :P

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Shadow The Dragon Wizard

10:12

@Tinkeringbell indeed! :P

@M.A.R. Morse code?

Mithrandir

It's the result of a command issued in CHQ. Don't worry about it.

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

So confusing

Mithrandir

It's almost never used.

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

plz-delete 5 (!) days old setInterval @Bart @rene @Sonic

M.A.R.

@ShadowTheDragonWizard 5! = 120

Shadow The Dragon Wizard

10:44

@M.A.R. true

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rene

17:33

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Feeds

19:13

Eventually they agreed to "an auto-retracting dog leash with one end clipped to your house, so you can press the button on the handle and water-ski home."

M.A.R.

Hey, meta.SO is fun tonight

Some of the classic popcorn drama. Not any of the new cheap crap.

John Dvorak

19:38

Link please? Unless you mean "nerf downvotes plz #20 000"?

M.A.R.

Hey, I enjoy the classics, OK?!

It's much better than a welcoming rant (ha). Those are like B movies.

John Dvorak

I'm not complaining, just clarifying. Thank you.

M.A.R.

You're welcome, crystal clear person.

There's also the witch hunt with that new rude new contributor thing.

The last fun post was from Aug 29th, so there's that.

404

20:12

@M.A.R. Is there a "new rude contributor" icon now? Similar in shape but with most fingers curled.

M.A.R.

@404 Or gothic metal symbolism

404

20:30

@Feeds Is it deserted island, or desert island, or dessert island? I can never remember which one to use.

Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots discuss desert island choices at Green Room TIFF

►

Mine is probably Wilco.

Mithrandir

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

21:28

Q: Is SE allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

This is pretty much a follow-up to this meta announcement by SE. Ideally that announcement would have resolved the issue, but the language in it was vague and evasive, and there have been no clarifications by SE in the 2.5 weeks since it was posted. The trigger for this issue was a report that o...