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user41796

9:00 PM

Snow men are definitely better off beardless

user114359

@GlenH7 it is actually quite warm here today given it is November in the midwest

user114359

If I really were a snowman, I would be melting

Jimmy Hoffa

@Snowman I read s/hate/had/ at first and just figured "eh to each their own I guess"

user41796

We've got a semi-unusual warm spell going on as well. Supposed to end tomorrow / by Friday

user114359

@JimmyHoffa You got me, I married the bearded lady.

user15026

9:06 PM

@GlenH7 We don't want another yogurt incident.

user41796

Is that the royal, 3rd-person "we?" :-D

user41796

Actually, several of us could fix that issue immediately now

user41796

as a mod can manually unsuspend a user from chat

user41796

I'm dealing with first world problems. I need to replace my clothes washer and dryer. Blech. Too much to research.

Robert Harvey

9:37 PM

Ultimately, the way this question is going to get answered is to knock up some code and measure it. If one of us is going to take some of our valuable time to do that, it would be nice if we were assured that we are not answering the wrong question. Can you at least show us what a graph node looks like in F#? — Robert Harvey 28 mins ago

[sigh]

Crowdsourcing his profiler.

Also, arbitrary "code goes on Stack Overflow" rule is arbitrary.

user41796

@RobertHarvey I'd vote to migrate out of spite, but I'm out of close votes anyway. :-)

Robert Harvey

Guy won't show me his graph.

[insert gratuitous, off-color joke here]

user41796

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. You first.

user55340

9:57 PM

Distributed systems are hard. Time is hard. Time in distributed systems is very hard. Even just figuring out whether event A happened before or after event B will earn you an instant PhD and a no-interviews-necessary fill-out-your-own-salary lead developer spot at Google. So, no, it is probably not impossible. It's just that the smarted scientists of the world have been working on it for 50 years and haven't figured it out yet. — Jörg W Mittag 8 mins ago

Thomas Owens

What the hell....

That's not even reasonable.

user41796

@ThomasOwens I ran out of close votes today before I could VTC on that question

user55340

I was out many hours ago.

user41796

Worth noting that not even stock exchanges bother trying to guarantee that level of synchronicity. They merely expect their clients to purchase co-lo space ever closer to the broadcasting server from the exchange.

enderland

@GlenH7 it's ok, you just need to be more accepting of ~~shit~~ people needing help!

user55340

10:02 PM

Now all I can do is say "you are being unreasonable" in a nice way and hope other people take the hint and cast close votes.

user41796

> I, GlenH7, do solemnly swear that if given a diamond on Programmers that I will not delete more than one fourth of the site while attempting to learn Haskell.

user55340

Just need to elect four new mods then.

user41796

@MichaelT Calling them an outright nutter probably isn't going to work either

user55340

People start throwing around links to be nice.

user55340

Btw, look at rev 1 of that question.

user41796

10:06 PM

most^4 professionals

user41796

I resent that remark.

user114359

> Hi, this goes out to the most most most most professionals among you.

enderland

damn I'm only mostly a most professional. :(

user114359

Well, I don't qualify, bye.

user41796

@Snowman Was better with the typo, tbh

user55340

10:07 PM

Amateur AI questions are fun too.

user55340

-2

Q: How do you detect repeated objects in an image?

Say I have a completely white bitmap image with three identical (or near identical) pictures of black cats on it. How can I use image recognition to let the computer know that "There is a pattern here. There are 3 nearly identical blobs on this otherwise blank page". If the blobs were equally sp...

image-processing

enderland

From the help page: Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.. Your question clearly falls under this category. — Doc Brown 47 mins ago

Ampt

@Snowman What do I get for last place?

user41796

@Ampt The obligation to create a fake twitter account

Ampt

@GlenH7 is that a fake fake twitter, or do I actually have to fake having a twitter?

user41796

10:09 PM

erm, yes

user55340

Reading that question about plagiarism of code on academics, I wonder if my answer on AST similarity was useful.

user55340

A: quantitatively comparing AST shapes

One approach would be to compile the source to XML and then look at how different the two bits of source are. For example, in the Java world, the static analysis tool pmd does this as its approach to looking for things to warn about. class Example { void bar() { while (baz) buz.doSomethin...

user55340

heh post id: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/299998/…

user55340

Look at the number in the link.

user41796

@MichaelT So. Close.

user41796

10:16 PM

Surprising to see them back to back like that on the site too

Robert Harvey

10:45 PM

@LightnessRacesinOrbit *[shrug]*(programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/301764/…)

Robert Harvey

11:38 PM

Anyone in here know XPath?

enderland

Sep 10 at 1:35, by Robert Harvey

Anyone here know XPath?

Robert Harvey

I have an XPath tester that is specific to HTML Agility Pack, but I can't seem to figure this one out.

Free repz on Stack Overflow:

Q: Html Agility Pack XPath to return the td following the td containing a specific text string?

I have the following HTML (a small part of a larger HTML document): <tr class="even"> <td width="35%"><strong>Restrictions or particulars</strong></td> <td> MAINTENANCE OF REFRIGERATION/AIR CONDITIONING UP TO 1000v - REFRIGERATION/AIRCON EQPT<br> </td> </tr> What would be the XPath e...

c# xpath html-agility-pack

user114359

11:53 PM

> Please Programmers, you're my only hope.

user114359

Help me Obi Wan Kanobi you're my only hope

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user114359

Q: How do you modify this audio source code?

I am a learning game developer trying to get this programming right. I got a free first person script from Unity and I'm trying to alter the code. Currently, the way the code works is that when the character is running, the code makes the running noise at random intervals, however, due to somet...

random

user114359

> Daily close vote limit reached; please try again in 5 minutes

Robert Harvey

Figured it out.

A: XPath to return the next column following the td containing a specific text string?

//tr[contains(., 'Restrictions or particulars')]/td[2]/text()

enderland

It's hard to edit images. That's your problem - you need the actual code itself. I guess you could put this in paint and try to overwrite the text, but that doesn't seem reliable. It'd be hard to match the font exactly and get the formatting the same. Related question on Stack Overflow. — enderland 57 secs ago

user114359

11:57 PM

That particular animated GIF is too flashy/annoying...

user114359

@enderland Nice. I never realized that SO question existed until now.