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1:10 AM
 
Rob
1:20 AM
@Sha, something broken that needs fixing, only shows one image?
 
 
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Rob
2:34 AM
... and her brother.
 
 
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7:08 AM
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7:31 AM
@Rob works fine for me, you need to scroll down to see the other images, it's not a grid.
 
8:14 AM
lol wrong room
 
9:13 AM
🙀
 
All good!
in Shadow's Den, 1 hour ago, by Shadow 10 Years Wizard
!!cat BelfastMet
 
9:57 AM
congrats @Shadow10YearsWizard
 
10:21 AM
Sooo... I've just found an excellent color picker, but it's GPL or eighteen bucks and my userscript is in CC. So, no go.
 
11:00 AM
@JNat long time no cross site spammer from me. So now you have. Thanks! :)
@Luuklag thanks!
@JohnDvorak ditched the idea to do it from scratch?
 
I haven't!
 
@JohnDvorak good! ;)
@John you started working on it just because I asked this, or did you plan to do it anyway?
 
I planned to. Now, if a preexisting color picker allowed custom color spaces (namely, HSV where full saturation goes from certain grey to certain other grey) I might consider it. But I don't see that happening.
 
Customization is always a pain.
And in SharePoint.... @Νеvеrꭑoꭇе can probably share some horror stories about it...
 
Microsoft Word except it's a website generator. Yuckkkkk.
 
11:12 AM
I can also share, but it was many years ago (well, 10-12) and 1) Don't remember full details, and 2) SharePoint might have changed since then, so my experience might not be relevant. ;)
I just remember running tons of JS to change/overwrite/fix internal SharePoint stuff on the client side.
 
@JourneymanGeek seeing this user also has a SU profile, they might be cross-site spammer: meta.stackexchange.com/a/355940/361484
 
eh, nothing obvioudly dpsmmy
just very very low quality
 
Meh you might be right, was thinking they were going to come back and edit spam in.
 
if they do, flag em
@DavidPostill tends to leave me very little to do, spamwise anyway :D
 
11:30 AM
lol
7 out of 36 users have broken avatar here. Pity this old time bug doesn't get any love and attention...
Is it even in review? checking
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard I count 8 on the first page, many more on the following
They error to 400
400. That’s an error.

Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. That’s all we know.
@JourneymanGeek here is one for you stackexchange.com/users/19849779/…
 
@Luuklag yup
Think this is the main bug report for it:
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Q: My picture is missing on my profile page

Apass.JackThe profile picture is missing on my profile page. The relevant part looks like Since this profile picture appears almost everywhere when I am referenced, quite a few other pages looks buggy. For example, leagues page, users page, questions page if it includes a question I just answered, a pa...

@Journeyman can you please throw it into the review pot? ^
 
Rob
@Shadow10YearsWizard Thanks, there's no scrollbar; so that wasn't obvious.
 
@Rob huh? Let me see again...
 
Rob
Mobile, FF.
 
11:41 AM
@Rob it's on your side, I see scrollbar:
(and a very young Abby ;))
oopsie
They look the same, from some angles... :-O
Lucky I added a tooltip. lol
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard hmm. Might not be obvious to the devs its a issue again
 
@JourneymanGeek not again, it always was.
 
Post a new question referencing the old one. We'll close old -> new and I'll status review the new one
 
I saw broken avatars for years, just not many.
Always gmail.
 
@Luuklag jnat is a better option
 
Rob
11:44 AM
@Shadow10YearsWizard Not FF compat:
 
Rob
 
@Rob well, it's on you.... and nice face. lol
You did it on purpose?
(i.e. waited for this to take the screenshot?)
 
@JourneymanGeek okay, cool. Not much point in removing those anywyas. All they ever do is set a profile description no-one ever looks at. I even doubt they are indexed.
 
Rob
@Shadow10YearsWizard ....
 
11:50 AM
lol
Wonder if @Adam still has those cats?
 
Did anyone already call the '90's, they wand their sweatband back
 
Cat usually live...14 years.... and they're quite young in the pic... so probably they're still alive.
@Luuklag the teenager me refuse to answer the call.
I was a good boy, never talk with strangers. :D
 
hahaha
 
@Journeyman before reporting the broken avatars bug, I want to check deeper, so will pass for now. Need to see what exactly is going on, to make solving it on SE side faster.
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard ping me, and I'll do the needful.
 
11:56 AM
It's something about changing Google's account picture after creating the SE account, so the picture that SE initially reads is no longer valid.
Quick solution will be to copy the picture to imgur, so it won't break.
ohhhh wait
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard meh seing they are google generated that will probably don't fly with copyrights
 
no no... no... can it be that simple?
{broken} --- {not broken} (same image)
 
yeah it really is that simple @Shadow10YearsWizard
Lets ping the heck out of Yaakov, and have him fix this asap
xD
 
.......
Don't make me bite y'all.
 
Well this makes the report easier, @Luuklag feel free to do it. :D
 
12:02 PM
@Shadow10YearsWizard Nah, I should be fixing my own select case problems
 
@Luuklag add a break. Fixed. You're welcome. Now report the avatar bug.
:P
 
Well you found it ;)
Not going to take that credit from you
 
I have enough rep :D
This reminds me, need to give 500.
Done.
Doubled the rep of the user.
 
such a cool guy that Shadow bloke
Ill write an answer to the original report, or would it be better to make a new Q @Shadow10YearsWizard
@Shadow10YearsWizard adding a break doesn't fix it. It just selects something which conditions aren't even met....
 
@Luuklag new, as this is different and more serious issue.
The one I linked before is 404, this one 400.
@Luuklag wrap the break with if statement. You're welcome.
:-D
 
Rob
12:12 PM
@Luuklag It's funny, now we have the "you report it", "no, you write it up" argument. Whereas last year someone would do the work, now people won't do extra work.
 
It's already done @Rob
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Q: Profile images served by google return error 400

LuuklagLooking at the new users tab there are several users that get served a blank profile picture. Upon inspection they link to a Error 400 page from Google. When the URL is slightly adapted (Exclude =s96-c=k-s328 ) the image is served. The last part of this url is dynamic, as other values are also no...

 
Rob
Busy beavers
 
@JourneymanGeek Status-reviewed?
Frigging MS office auto-updater
keeps popping up, even though the automatically checkbox is unchecked
 
is done
 
they really want us gone from office 16 I guess
 
12:18 PM
@Luuklag well done!
 
Found a new one in the process? i.stack.imgur.com/XJ1bI.png
 
@Luuklag what?
 
How is 10-3 8?
 
@Luuklag +1 from a downvoted answer being deleted, those don't show up ;)
 
@Luuklag the last -1 there is probably older, and you cleared the notification since then.
oh it's highlighted too. hmm...
 
12:26 PM
@Tinkeringbell nope, they do show up on your profile page, but doesn't exist
Perhaps the counter messes up because I downvoted 2 answers on one question
Or Balpha once wrote code to mess up anyone who downvoted any of his posts
 
So anyone got any other clues, otherwise I'll post that as well
 
12:44 PM
Reversed downvote on a post of yours?
Otherwise... not really, no.
 
That would be a +2 then right @Tinkeringbell, and would show up in the reputation history
 
Oh yeah.
sorry!
 
np ;)
Will I break this running it on two pc's at once?
Appears not to be the case
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Q: Recent achievements reputation counter is off

LuuklagThere are numerous posts with similar titles as this, and usually they are perfectly explainable by either removed votes, or un-upvotes etc. In my case the recent achievements showed the following: The number on the trophee shows as +8 whilst the unread achievements total up to +7. I checked my ...

 
Rob
1:14 PM
Badges too.
 
Rob
1:33 PM
^ Spams JG's question, about embroidery.
 
@Rob alas, not a SR.SE mod... flagged anyway MWAHAHAHAHA
 
Rob
Harold was not coy, err'd
Now that's just cooperative.
 
1:58 PM
@Rob This Harold?
 
You and your Icy Tower XD
 
lol nice that you identify. :D
My son is already better than me, lol
He did 140 combo
 
I didn't get time this weekend to try it.
 
Your loss. ;)
My combo record is 130, big daughter best combo is 80, and little daughter (3 y/o) still never did any combo, but she reached floor 180 without any combo which is impressive.
The act of jumping while still running is hard for her to grasp, but she'll get there sooner or later...
 
Rob
2:17 PM
@Shadow10YearsWizard This one, of course.
@Tinkeringbell Cookie Tower!:
 
Yum! I can win that one.
 
Rob
Guinness World Record
Not really that many cookies.
 
It's plenty of cookies if they're just for me :D
 
I'd love to see you try in one sitting @Tinkeringbell
 
Depends on the definitions of sitting XD
 
Rob
2:28 PM
After she finishes her chocolate bar.
 
I'm out of chocolate already :(
 
Rob
Here's a refill:
 
@Rob but it has a top
Icy Tower has no top...
 
I'm considering risking death and doing some grocery shopping tomorrow, to get a chocolate bar as well.
 
@Tinkeringbell can't you order online?
 
2:31 PM
It will be very expensive on the delivery costs to get just a 2 euro bar of chocolate delivered :P
 
Fun fact: TV advertisement to a delivery service got banned (censored) because it had scary scenes about super markets, and kids got really scary when seeing it.
They took scenes from actual horror films and planted them in real super markets.
 
Rob
@Shadow10YearsWizard Alternative measurements.
 
@Rob not enough, you can't measure something without an end.
hmm.... I suspect the game will just crash when you reach floor 32768.
 
Rob
Catsplosion Tower has no top too.
 
AFAIK, world record is about 2000 floors, so we're still far.
What height is a building with 32768 floors? @Rob
 
Rob
2:36 PM
20' high floors, or 16?
 
@Tinkeringbell even your secret stash?
@Rob standard
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard I only have secret stashes of chocolate.
 
Rob
Like your elevators?
 
@Tinkeringbell and stuff that goes boom!
 
do the floors have to be 100% stacked? or can they be more like stairs
3' floors
 
Rob
2:38 PM
@Tinkeringbell and Ketchup
 
That too. They want to ban all consumer fireworks this year, because the usual yearly fireworks casualties would cause 'extra pressure on the healthcare system'.

They're kinda forgetting that it's covid that causes the extra pressure, not a small number of yearly idiots...
@Rob Huh? No, the ketchup is stored in the kitchen, with all the other non-secret stash food.
 
@user400654 judge for yourself:
 
Rob
@Shadow10YearsWizard 💡 Stores fireworks next to electric heater 💡
 
@Rob That wasn't plugged in XD
 
@Tinkeringbell think they mean that with the healthcare busy with covid patients, they won't be able to take care of the idiots, who might just die as result. :/
 
2:43 PM
We're not that stupid.
 
@Tinkeringbell which brand of ketchup?
 
Rob
Bad lesson for children.
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard Nah. Most of the fireworks injuries won't even require the same doctors as covid patients. Plastic surgeons and eye surgeons aren't flooded with covid patients right now.
 
@Rob Tink has no little brothers. ;)
 
@Rob We're all adults here, my 'little' brothers are 19 and 25 ;)
 
Rob
2:45 PM
But your kids see it.
 
@Tinkeringbell but I expect hospital itself being full with covid patients, no? Not just doctors being busy.
@Rob her kids are unborn yet, so have no eyes.
 
Rob
Yours.
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard 'expect' is the wrong premise here ;) We don't know what the numbers will be like in 2 months, given that we're in a pretty strict lockdown rn.
 
@Rob they don't see the chat now, they're busy jumping.
 
eh, for minor injuries related to fireworks, that's not a hard problem to solve
setup a tent outside
 
2:47 PM
@Tinkeringbell during lockdown numbers go down, but once lockdown is over.... numbers sky rocket again.
 
our lockdown had pretty decent results, but it woulda been better if it was accompanied by a mask mandate and less businesses marked as "essential"
 
@user400654 no money for a tent, all money goes to fight covid. ;)
 
Rob
Numbers learned jumping from your kids. :)
 
hospitals here have tents for fighting covid, they're used for pre-screening
same tents can be used for minor injuries
 
@Rob my kids sometimes do see the chat and ask "what is this cat?" or "what you write".
 
Rob
2:49 PM
Answer: eh, don't read that ...
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard See, it's two political parties that have been pushing the 'ban all fun/fireworks' for years now: The animal party and green-left. Both are ... not to be taken too seriously, but are known to use twist current events and try to wring some political gain out of a serious health crisis... which is probably politics in a nutshell anyways.
 
No worry they're far from actually reading English.
They can understand several words, but not whole sentences.
 
Rob
They must know the short words.
 
@user400654 our lockdown is one big joke.
 
here pretty much all businesses other than hair salons and barber shops/tattoo parlors were considered "essential"
except for planned parenthood facilities
they were shutdown too
 
2:51 PM
O.o
 
First and most annoying is the global "pass" given to some people, and we talk about hundreds of thousands. And not due to essential work, just due to them being religious.
 
Rob
^^ That's an effective way to spread germs.
 
So they're all allowed to mingle, to travel, everything as if there's no Corona.
And naturally.. they get sick.
 
Rob
Fake news
 
2:52 PM
churches weren't shut down here either, but most major self-respecting churches shut themselves down
 
Rob
It's an expression.
 
the ones that didn't... well, ended up shut down one way or another anyway
 
Rob
It's a problem that fixes itself.
Like fire.
 
@Tinkeringbell here it's just a mess, each party try to help its voters to get a pass from lockdown.
 
Same here, most mosques and churches are either limiting themselves to the rules (which is a max of 30 visitors or less if distance can't be kept, and preferably no singing), but there are cases of churches that had services with up to 600 people, thrice a day.
 
2:55 PM
it's one thing to shut down something where the people who participate there are essentially forced to do so
like a place of business
work or lose your job etc
churches are... entirely voluntary
 
@Rob they're too lazy to look. They have better more interesting things to do. ;)
 
Rob
Like jumping?
 
@Rob or eating snacks.
We have drawer full with all kinds of snacks, they're allowed to choose two every day.
 
It's... consumer fireworks have been a thing as long as I was little. And when I was little, I would be out with fireworks from until they started selling them up until after midnight on New Year's Eve, just one kaboom after the other.

But people that have trouble with that (scared dogs, or lung problems with smoke) + the grumpy people that are generally annoyed at the sounds are getting more and more vocal each year.

And it's these people that are muddying the discussion around it as well: No one has numbers on how many injuries are e.g. because of illegal fireworks vs. legal fireworks,
 
Rob
Plus whatever you don't see.
 
3:00 PM
@Rob nah, I keep track, nothing is ever missing.
 
All in all... It sucks but I fear eventually fireworks will be banned. Especially now that the popular twist can be 'cause the rona!'
 
@Tinkeringbell yeah, too bad...
 
Rob
People now resort to Bear Bangers, or several tied together. No pretty colors, but a nerve rattling boom.
 
@Tinkeringbell well, it's not a very good tradition to begin with.
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard Says you. :P
 
3:03 PM
@Rob you have fireworks tradition too in your place?
 
If everyone stays sober and responsible, it can be very pretty and very fun.
 
@Tinkeringbell I don't play with fireworks. :D
 
yeah... i mean, a favorite past time growing up was throwing bottle rockets at each other up and down the road
 
What I do is (usually) safe for others. ;)
 
Of course you don't play with fireworks!
You light them up responsibly.
 
3:04 PM
occationally someone would get burned, but... meh
 
hehe
@M.A.R. you're usually more vocal when arriving the room, you're OK? ;)
 
Rob
@Shadow10YearsWizard Yes. Fireworks company won't go out of business for a few thousand more years.
People here also make their own.
 
@Rob you're in China??
 
Rob
No.
 
Rob
3:08 PM
No fireworks in North America a 1000 years ago, AFAIK.
 
Well not talking about official events using fireworks, but rather what @Tink talk about, which is private people going outside each with their own stash.
 
Rob
1 min ago, by Rob
People here also make their own.
 
Tink's people don't make the fireworks, they buy them.
 
Rob
The people?
 
Making them from scratch is whole new level of "stupid things to do", no? :D
 
3:09 PM
Oi, they're not 'my people'! I do not want to be responsible for the idiot part of 'that people' :P
 
Rob
They make people from scratch.
 
@Rob we all do
 
I don't think sperm and egg count as scratch. And even if they did, only roughly half the population has the physiology to actually 'make'.
 
@Tinkeringbell roughly half the population act as the oven, the other roughly half just put ingredients in the oven.
 
3:12 PM
@Shadow10YearsWizard An oven doesn't combine flour, eggs and butter when someone puts in a jar of butter.
 
Rob
Barrel rockets that your neighbors make seem to travel fairly far, and annoy.
 
@Tinkeringbell eww butter... :D
 
Rob
Butter helps.
 
I don't mind butter. Makes the sprinkles stick to toast :D
 
Well that's the beauty of human making: most things are automated.
 
Rob
3:13 PM
Sprinkles. Like crumbs in the bed.
 
Nah, sprinkles are better than crumbs in bed. Trust me.
 
No need to actually do anything, the body do most of the work all on its own. Like some automated oven.
 
I don't mind other people appreciating the beauty of human making... I will have no part in it though.
 
@Tinkeringbell well, still fun even when the timer is disabled.
 
Eh, not going to take the risk.
 
3:15 PM
@Tinkeringbell yet.
 
@JourneymanGeek Well feel free to patent the idea ;)
 
naw, some guy will have an IOT thing where you put in batter pods and it will squeeze it out and bake it
 
Tink will take the credit for the patent and get rich in 6-8 years. :D
 
I'm old fashioned :D
 
3:17 PM
Who says I want to get rich?
I'm already having friends that seem to mostly clinging for the money :/
 
@Tinkeringbell your money?
 
To be fair, it's probably an overstatement to call them friends
more like acquaintances at this point?
 
Case by case.
 
3:18 PM
Oh sure...
 
@Tinkeringbell rich, no. But I need money to do things :D
 
Still... wouldn't want to be rich as I'm sure the problem will only be worse then.
 
and having enough money not to have to worry about money sounds nice :D
 
One can just stash all the money in the bank, and forget about it until it's needed.
 
@JourneymanGeek I basically have that right now... and a few people that know I have it and as such, 'expect' me to pay for certain things now. Might've been my own fault for offering to do so incidentally, but now it's become an expectation and one is even acting entitled.
 
3:25 PM
ah
lol
@Shadow10YearsWizard that's roughly what I am doing :D
 
@Tinkeringbell I assume you already asked about it on IPS? If not... think you should.
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard Nah, it would be too much of an 'AITA'.
 
It's a serious matter, and better get good advice if possible.
@Tinkeringbell AITA??
 
I know how to handle it interpersonally.
@Shadow10YearsWizard Reddit? Am I The Asshole?
 
@Tinkeringbell lol never heard that. Thanks for the daily new word! :P
@Tinkeringbell but no! You're not the A word.
Anyway, that's really something that bothered me too in the past, when I had lots (?) of money.
If it was still an issue for me I'd probably ask on IPS, but due to less money, and less friends in general, no issue anymore. :P
 
3:31 PM
Heh, yeah. As soon as people start acting like that, they're not really friends so it solves itself eventually ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek good! Now be a good friend and give me few thousands? :D
@Tinkeringbell really case by case... can be just jealous people, and there can be ways to make them see their mistake and be friends again.
 
/me returns @Shadow10YearsWizard's shoe instead
 
lol
Change of subject! Two headed snake:
(it's real)
sdc snake
 
@Shadow10YearsWizard No such command 'snake'.
 
 
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5:03 PM
@CRABOLO why I have this deja-vu? @Shadow10YearsWizard... maybe you remember, didn't we had someone with ants in his keyboard in the Tavern in the past? I kinda remember that becoming a recurring joke
YEP! FOUND!
@Unihedron, that was him.
Desperate enough to actually ask on Lifehacks....
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Q: How can I remove ants from my laptop keyboard?

UnihedronThere are ants in my laptop keyboard again. It's happened before and ended up killing my productivity occasionally as the little critters suddenly show up from within the gaps of the keyboard. I had to bring it over to my uncle and he got rid of the ants, somehow, but I forgot to ask how he did i...

 
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