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> Requesting historical lock. Some users seem to want to try to delete it (chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1971710#1971710), and I believe there's real, valuable info here.

If you wanna flag that one question with something like that it'd be much appreciated.

More flags should raise it higher in the diamond queue.

Annonomus Person

@Undo Mes is empty :(

Undo

6:58 PM

hehe

Annonomus Person

Tear

hichris123

@Undo k, I'll flag.

finds tab in mess of tabs

3ventic

I don't think they use historical lock for questions that were not good fit when they were posted..

Undo

well it needs some kind of lock.

3ventic

It seems like an alright question tbh

Undo

7:00 PM

(IMO)

3ventic

I don't see how it's primarily opinion based

It shouldn't be deleted with the vote count it has though, that's for sure

Annonomus Person

I have an idea for a new chatroom description:

> The chatroom where SE is hacked, people sound dumb [everyone else does, why not?], and moderators loose, and use, their diamond hammers. Helpful links: [dadadada]

Yeah... historical sounds good to me.

3ventic

2 mins ago, by 3ventic

I don't think they use historical lock for questions that were not good fit when they were posted..

It would allow people to post off-topic, but popular questions

Undo

looks at lock reasons

3ventic

and gain reputation for something they should not have

Undo

7:02 PM

hmm

Annonomus Person

@3ventic They would if it was or it wasn't locked. A historical lock would cease voting

Undo

ideally people just wouldn't delete vote it :P

3ventic

Historical lock isn't used if the question isn't highly voted..

Well, yeah

but some people have this "if it's closed and not a dupe, it should be deleted" mindset

hichris123

> Can we have a historical lock for this question? [Apparently there's 6 delete votes on this question](chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1971710#1971710), but it seems to have good information and is a bad candidate for deletion.

@Undo ^

3ventic

markdown doesn't work in flags afaik..

Undo

7:05 PM

me like

hichris123

@3ventic It does if you don't have trailing commas. :P

3ventic

hmm

hichris123

> Can we have a historical lock for this question? [Apparently there's 6 delete votes on this question](chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1971710#1971710) , but it seems to have good information and is a bad candidate for deletion.

^ That would work.

Undo

markdown works

3ventic

k

Undo

7:07 PM

does not work in decline reasons :P

hichris123

Ooh, @Undo you can poke people's chat profiles now. :D

3ventic

or accept reasons

Undo

@hichris123 eh?

@hichris123 I don't see any new buttons

hichris123

@Undo Refresh a person's details via API. Not quite sure how it works....

Undo

linky?

hichris123

7:08 PM

@Undo I meant with a diamond.

@Undo Gah, that would be a lot of chat transcript searching.

Undo

like force refreshing from the parent site?

hichris123

Yup.

Undo

Yup, we've always been able to do that

that's how you remove someone's diamond

hichris123

But you need a diamond to do it.

Undo

yeah

Annonomus Person

7:10 PM

Yep.

Undo

yay!

hichris123

7:26 PM

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A: No results from mysqli query result when using bind_result

It is always a great amusement to see a question that is based on the lack the most basic learning, and a handful of hastily written answers, each of those failed to correct these extremely basic issues. This. Is. Sparta Overflow!!!

@Undo ^

Annonomus Person

Grrr..... why isn't javascript working?

Grrr

hichris123

8:02 PM

@Undo Your register/signup button doesn't work. :P

3ventic

8:17 PM

> elements with an src attribute specified should not have a script embedded within its tags.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/script

Annonomus Person

@3ventic Ahh... duh!

Thanks! Works great now...

3ventic

ಠ_ಠ

Annonomus Person

hehe

Undo

@hichris123 Oh?

What's it do?

hichris123

8:40 PM

@Undo Nothing.

Undo

@hichris123 which button?

[red-freehand-circle-plz]

hichris123

Okay!

Gimme a sec.

@Undo ^

Undo

what's it do?

It should kick you over to the log in tab

and then you can use your new creds

hichris123

It does nothing.

Undo

will it let you log in with them?

actually, lemme check the db

weird

uhmm...

sigh I dunno

hichris123

8:46 PM

@Undo What?

Undo

it doesn't show up :P

ah, I see it

just a minute

Seth

@hichris123 Not him again.

Undo

@hichris123 should be fixed now

hichris123

@Undo k.

You... forgot the signup file @Undo?

rofl

Undo

yeah :P

hi @Christoph!

Seth

8:53 PM

@Undo You really should unstar the second "Project links".

and support this:

35

Q: Clearing chat pins results in a self-imposed moratorium on future actions

Eight steps to reproduce a trivial yet annoying bug whereby acting as a moderator/room owner bans yourself from taking future action: Be a moderator and take your mod-hammer with you into chat. (or just create a new room) Pin a chat message. Unpin same. Realize you didn't really want to unpin i...

Undo

already upvoted that :P

Seth

oh ok :P

Blaze

[Blaze] answer flagged by hichris123: stackoverflow.com/questions/23031969/…

hichris123

Ooh, it works. :D

Undo

:D

hichris123

8:57 PM

Hmm... @Undo can I have a copy of the Blaze database?

(local testing)

Undo

there's like nothing in it.

just a minute

Seth

yay, I figured it out.

Undo

CREATE TABLE `flags` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `userId` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `postId` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `reason` text,
  `postUrl` text,
  `timestamp` timestamp NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=261 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

and

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `username` text,
  `email` text,
  `password` text,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

hichris123

Ooh, okay.

Seth

Hey @Undo how do you do the fancy slide down thingy on the login/signup box? I know it's simple, but I never looked it up (partly because I wasn't sure what search terms to use)

Undo

8:59 PM

just a modal

getbootstrap.com/javascript/#modals

Seth

oh ok.

Hm, but report: I can't hit enter to activate the button.

Undo

yeah :P

[status-not-by-design]

Seth

lol

Seth

9:25 PM

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php mysql html android jquery javascript java

O...kay.

hichris123

@Seth Beat you to it. :D

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 2 hours ago, by hichris123

̇̇̇, kakinada

1.3k 4 15

php mysql html android jquery javascript java

Hey @Andy!

Seth

hah :P

hichris123

@Andy Do you have a local copy of that? I'm wondering if it still has false positives, like I can't foo the bar when 123456789.

Blaze

10:00 PM

[Blaze] answer flagged by Undo: stackoverflow.com/questions/19961239/…

Annonomus Person

10:28 PM

Are animations bad if they add to the post?

Undo

no

like GIFs?

GIFs are awesome

Annonomus Person

@Undo Yeah but they're 400x400

Undo

linky?

Annonomus Person

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Q: How do I use 2 ultrasonic sensors to control a 5v motor?

I've hooked up two ultrasonic sensors to my breadboard and I also got a 5v motor installed. I also got the diode installed and the usual set up. I can easily control the motor with one sensor. But what I'm trying to do is I want the motor to run at let's say 100 once I start it up: The first ...

arduino-uno sensors

Undo

I like 'em

might... try to make them smaller :P

Annonomus Person

10:32 PM

@Undo But how do I compress a GIF.... all my hard work.... should I put them in a spoiler blockquote?

Or just links?

Undo

No, make the GIF smaller :P

Either way, I'd say go ahead and use 'em.

Annonomus Person

@Undo How do you compress a animated GIF?

Undo

Physically smaller.

3ventic

half the width and height

Undo

Not hard-drive-space wise :P

3ventic

10:33 PM

compressed gifs look bad anyway

Undo

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A: Do any (LEO) satellites move east-to-west?

The correct term for this type of orbit is retrograde. Here's a shiny animated thing showing the orbit: Due to the difficulty to achieve such an orbit, it is rarely used. Most commonly, artificial satellites using this orbit are commercial earth-observing satellites. Some satellites which use...

^ I used a GIF here :D

Annonomus Person

<img href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/jmOp6.gif" width="200" height="200">

Not working.... :(

@Undo ^

Undo

@AnnonomusPerson Just embed it like a normal image :P

Annonomus Person

Lol src not href

:D

I knew that!

@Undo Well these aren't normal images :)

Undo

they'll work

3ventic

10:51 PM

src vs href is confusing..

Annonomus Person

@3ventic Yeah...

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A: How do I use 2 ultrasonic sensors to control a 5v motor?

This is very simple using the map() instruction. Here's the code you would use (feel free to modify values: int speed = 112 + map(distance_1, 0, 20, 0, 112) - map(distance_1, 0, 20, 0, 112); So if both sensors gave equal values, they would offset each other. To make it still work if an object ...