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John Dvorak

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Mithical

6:50 AM

Sheesh, lots of lost souls today

AMONG US but it's Ace attorney

7:10 AM

I lost soul many moons ago

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Νеvеrꭑoꭇе

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Feeds

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The Overflow #41: Satisfied with your own code

Ryan Donovan on October 02, 2020

Welcome to ISSUE #41 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week is pumpkin-spiced so your code can easily fall into your commits. We’ve got bushels of goodies this week: what our chief product and technology officer learned from hiring hundreds…

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Rubiksmoose

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1:24 PM

This smells like a spam seed, but I'm not sure: meta.stackexchange.com/q/354884/622284

Ah, and the edit makes it worse.

2:04 PM

@QueenieGoldstein One million messages?

2:17 PM

Looking left

Looking right

bumping into @Ollie

user400654

🦠

Blue pill?

Morning to you as well, Shadow.

sdc coffee Shadow

SmokeDetector

@Ollie brews a cup of Macchiato for @Shadow

After noon, you mean. :D

5:18 PM here now. ;)

2:18 PM

It's only ten here.

AM.

Late bloomer.

@Rob Well, I made an FR for that: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/354858/…

@NordTheLoftyWizard hey, give it back! :D

Too late

Haha, @Spevacus 5K!

Next privilege: Access to moderator tools!

@Ollie oh no. Who know what you'll do with those tools.... hides

2:27 PM

Oh please...

Splevacus has had them for a while, and nothing's gone wrong.

Hmm...

Eh, the /tools page is alright. Deleting questions isn't used very often on this site because of how infrequently closed questions stick around for 2 days (unless they're duplicates, in which case, deleting isn't always a good idea.) The most important bit imo is being able to see deleted questions... There's a lot of deleted drama running around on Meta.

I'd love that

I hate peeking around in web.archive.org to see deleted posts.

Soooo slow.

2:44 PM

lol

10K

JMG over here with a diamond and almost 100k looking down on the plebeians

Mithical

3:10 PM

3:38 PM

@Spevacus it did take a while

11 years, by your profile's count.

Yup

You're a grizzled old veteran by now, I suppose.

Though admittedly I didn't get that active until the post @Mithical is referring to

Tbh, most of the grizzled is from last year

4:06 PM

@Ollie yes, to destroy everything using Cottrell Smoke Precipitation

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Nord The Lofty Wizard

5:29 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Ha! my local gremlin already took it o-o

they said they might give me my old socks back in exchange...TIL i get swindled again

sdc coffee Shadow

SmokeDetector

@NordTheLoftyWizard brews a cup of Latte for @Shadow

Nord The Lofty Wizard

in exchange for your socks :P

We have an imposter among us

user400654

🚽

5:50 PM

@Ollie Your post says "300-500 milliseconds", you know that's 0.3 to 0.5 seconds; the later being especially slow. --- You be sitting there pondering the meaning of life, and whomph! interrupted by a pop-up. --- Also see here: ux.stackexchange.com/a/34624/118567 here: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/358/… and ux.stackexchange.com/a/359/118567 .

- people don't think library authors are any good at UX.

You have to read all the answers and comments; not just The Chosen One.

@DavidPostill there is some debate about a post you migrated (back) to SO: chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/50599782#50599782 stackoverflow.com/questions/64175954/…

@Ollie you can also ask for screenshots... :)

Is that ^ some spam?

@NordTheLoftyWizard OK! activating sock self destruct

fatal error! Self destruct aborted!

DavidPostill

@rene I know :) Just close it.That will reject the migration. It's a crap question. The dupe question is ff only and was posted in 2011 (op doesn't specify browser) and almost certainly won't work with modern browsers. The only solution is to maybe write some javascript which is off topic for su.

@rene I can't send it back. SO has to do that.

6:02 PM

Feeds

Haunted Halloween masks from a mysterious costume shop that turn you evil and grow into your skin score a surprisingly high 80% filtration efficiency in R. L. Stine-sponsored NIOSH tests.

6:15 PM

@Rob Well actually, it's 300ms for all tooltips...except that one.

@Rob Updated my post.

Why is there no monkey mask in that image, @Feeds?

6:36 PM

@DavidPostill that question is now back at SU.

6:47 PM

@rene It also looked like off-topic nonsense to me at first, but a few others mulled it over in CHQ and we decided it was pretty blatant spam. The first link appears to be a piracy website. Here's the Metasmoke report if you wanted to review it.

@Ollie Design, Timing, there are lengthy discussions on best practices. Some recommend as short as 100 ms, which would be a bit quick for some mousers. --- It's been a while since I did web page design, seem to remember almost 300 was good (for me), but accommodating touchscreen is

currently my (our?) greatest concern.

@Ollie Probably just that one that needed fixing.

@Ollie Doesn't that fall under Mysterio?

7:17 PM

random question : How does IQ test work

Meta Andrew T.

@Feeds Vader's too effective. The heavy breathing tells.

^^ There's more than half a dozen types:

Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book.Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction (quotient) is multiplied...

Meta Andrew T.

> Intelligent Quote.

@Spevacus thanks

@Rob Yes I saw this...but I don't get the mechanism to determine a score....people proefficient with Geometry would definitely score better than those who have extremely high grasping skills(multilingual people)

7:25 PM

@MetaAndrewT. Cylon mask, also missing, is clearly the most effective:

The page says "Psychometricians generally regard IQ tests as having high statistical reliability"....this looks like "Sharks in a survey say humans like to be eaten"

This is why we have experts. Usually sharks don't bite or eat people, sources: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sharkseat.html animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/sharks/shark-diet.htm - more people eat sharks than the other way around. --- Guess why I don't like seafood, and thus don't eat sharks?

7:49 PM

@Ollie "Don't use tags that are not about your question.".

Mark

8:02 PM

@QueenieGoldstein "Statistical reliability" means the test is providing a consistent measure of something, but says nothing about what that "something" is. IQ tests have high test-retest reliability (if you take an IQ test today, then take another one next week, your scores will be very close) and high inter-rater reliability (if one psychologist gives you a test today, and a different one gives you a test tomorrow, your scores will be very close).

8:37 PM

@Mark Also a good thing is the Flynn Effect where every decade the tested people's scores rise by an average of 3 points, while as age increases there is a decline in one category and an increase in the opposite. --- Those findings have also been repeated in different studies.

Now people I knew from highschool have an excuse for themselves and why many young people are very smart and make better decisions (usually).

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9:44 PM

What other sites have the yellow "Improve your question" tips that are shown on Math SE?

On the ask question page.

10:01 PM

Does the "All Votes" tab really show every type of vote you can cast and how many of them you have cast?

I've cast 2224 votes; my "All" tab shows 1948.

Never mind.