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12:00 AM
I prefer emerald and sapphire
 
@trichoplax Thank you!
 
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Q: Randomize the test

QPaysTaxesI'm a teacher, and in a few days I have to give my students a test. Now, I'm always worried about my loveliest students being hurt by the least loveliest ones when they cheat, so I want to randomize the tests so no one can cheat off of anyone. Right now, I have my tests saved in this format: Wh...

 
nice
 
12:15 AM
@AlexA. TIL not to use regex?
 
Yes
 
@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@EasterlyIrk I'm just using irb
 
@AquaTart Yes I do
 
12:26 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Note: The easy way to tell Java apart from C# is that it uses POSIX-style naming (System.out.println) while C# uses .NET naming (Console.WriteLine)
 
My parents used to keep meat and batteries in the same drawer in the refrigerator.
 
@AlexA. Have you seen Freeman's Mind?
 
@AlexA. Your parents kept batteries in the refrigerator?
 
@AquaTart Yes
@MarsUltor Yes
 
@AlexA. Why?
 
12:31 AM
@AlexA. Have you watched it all?
 
@AquaTart Yes
 
Good
I myself started watching it from (more or less) the beginning, now I'm going back and binge watching it
Good memories
 
@MarsUltor It was a pretty common misconception in the 90s and early 2000s that batteries last longer if they're kept in the refrigerator. As it turns out, the opposite is true.
@AquaTart Yes
 
@AlexA. _UNK
 
I'm not sure if you're a good idea but I'm not sure about _UNK
 
12:33 AM
@AlexA. Opposite = refrigerators last longer if they contain batteries? Or opposite = batteries last longer if they're kept in the fireplace?
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
@MarsUltor No, batteries last longer if you keep your refrigerator in them.
 
@Geobits TIL
 
You can also recharge them in the microwave.
 
@Geobits Even non-rechargable ones?
 
12:37 AM
for some reason I remember the taste of batteries
 
@MarsUltor Yep. The RF energy blasted into them does something to them.
@Quill because 9Vs are fun :P
 
@Geobits You mean a microwave at low-power settings? High-powered settings recharge them to >1000%, so they explode from all the energy.
 
@MarsUltor I never said it was in keeping with safety or common sense.
 
I think half of my childhood conversations with my parents were just "I need more double As"
 
12:39 AM
Daily reminder that using a microwave is the most efficient way to charge your phone. It's so much faster, too.
 
@Geobits Wait, you probably just need a microwave lined with compressed carbon nanotubes.
 
@MarsUltor I think I've got one of those on my space elevator... lemme check.
 
> This is less readable than I thought it would be.
ah-hahaha
 
@RenderSettings Daily reminder that using a phone is the most efficient way to hard-boil your egg. It's so much faster, too.
 
@MarsUltor I'd believe it.
 
12:40 AM
lol the revision title
 
> Meanwhile, in another thread, people are talking about how Java code looks like it was written by Cthulhu.
 
@Geobits Where?
 
I dunno which one they mean. I don't remember any java-cthulhu crossovers at the moment.
 
It will be some ugly scarce conception out of the 90s or late 2000s that capacitors last shorter if they're lost outside some ovens.
^ The actual opposite
 
> Completely, agree, let's just assign people IPv6 addresses. Then we can also do away with this addressing bullshit of "Dr." and "Prof." and "Ms." and "Mrs." and what not.
lol
 
12:42 AM
Reflow your capacitors in your oven to get extra life out of them.
 
has the best idea for a language
Regex with efficient maths
 
@Quill T-that is surprisingly close to Urbit's idea
 
Seems like you can't search comments on Reddit. ಠ_ಠ
 
@El'endiaStarman From the search bar?
 
Via @MoscowTimes: "Donald Trump’s Refreshing Lack Of A Filter" somelink.com
TIL that's actually a website
 
‮test
Nope
 
@LegionMammal978 Can't you just use the actual symbol?
 
‮est
 
12:51 AM
What was that? RTL character? EDIT: Yes it is
 
‮Yay! It works now!
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‮Yup, U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
 
‮Ninja'd
 
@Geobits That is amazing.
 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,minimal-ui">
    <title>Somelink - just another link on the internet</title>
</head>
<body>

<h2>somelink</h2>

<p>Just another random link on the internet</p>

<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
 
@LegionMammal978 Looks like it didn't quite work the way I was hoping it would. :P
 
12:56 AM
Seriously, Google Analytics?
 
> i,s,o,g,r,a,m
 
Congratulations on hitting 10k, @Zgarb!
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(Looks like I'm late to the party...)
 
2 hours ago, by Digital Trauma
@Zgarb Congrats on 10k!
Sumo'd
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Sill no new comics? BLASPHEMY
 
5 mins ago, by Dennis
(Looks like I'm late to the party...)
 
1:06 AM
dam son
Ninja'ed your sumo.
 
@Dennis Oh, I thought that was some other party. :P
 
I only participate in figurative parties.
 
@Dennis does TIO use a later release of CJam then cjam.aditsu.net does? It seems that a weird bug on aditsu's site is not present on TIO.
 
It's technically not a release, but yes, it is a later revision.
 
Ok that makes sense.
 
1:09 AM
I figured if there are two online interpreters, there's no point in having them behave identically.
 
Naturally
 
^
@RenderSettings where is your avatar from?
 
Pokemon
 
(In case anyone thinks I'm joking, I'm not.)
 
I think it's a gambler from FireRed/LeafGreen but I honestly don't remember
 
1:10 AM
@EasterlyIrk Pokemon!
 
Okai.
 
I think it's PI from diamond/pearl, i don't exactly remember
I recolored it blue instead of red though
 
@Quill ...except there's 3 seats and 3 candidates
 
1:12 AM
@Quill Hey, I'm a member of that site. Not sure why.
 
> Nominations close in 4 days.
 
> You must have more than 300 reputation to nominate yourself as a candidate in this election.
Well, I'm out.
 
@Dennis Apparently I am too. Odd.
 
Is Signal Processing just Video and Image Editors Stack Exchange?
 
Audio processing too, among other things.
 
1:13 AM
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Q: What is the complete log-likelihood expression for EM

SKMLet the measurement vector $\mathbf{y} \in R^N$, given by $$\mathbf{y = Z h + w}\tag{1}$$ or, the recieved signal is $y_n$ can be written as $$ y_n = \sum_{m=0}^{M-1}h(m)z(n-m)+w(n)$$ in the form of a Moving Average model where $\mathbf{h} \in R^M$ is an unknown sparse channel impulse respons...

does that look like image editing to you
 
@Geobits I think I got bored one day and started joining random SE sites until I couldn't avoid clearing my incoming rep thingie. I don't even know what signal processing is...
 
that looks like off-topic to me
 
@Quill ...I'm not a member of their site, but I immediately recognized one of the names.‌​..
@Quill Looks like beautiful LaTeX. :D
 
@El'endiaStarman it's never good when they have posts but only 1 rep
 
Ha, that's because they're suspended.
But yes, that is true in general also.
 
1:16 AM
Um... the "Welcome to Stack Exchange Chat!" box just popped up for me when I entered :P
 
New thing.
 
@ETHproductions does it for everyone
 
Happens one time then never again
 
Oh, it's new? Cool
 
That's what you get for not chatting in a few days.
 
1:16 AM
@AlexA. (Until they make a new one 7 years later.)
 
it should happen everytime you open a new window
 
eww no
 
It should pop up every 40 minutes or so.
 
@Geobits SE Chat forgets me entirely? That definitely makes me want to come on more often ಠ_ಠ
 
@ETHproductions No, meaning if you'd been on in the last few days it wouldn't have happened now (and you'd already know about it).
 
1:18 AM
Oh, I see
 
o.c
 
@ETHproductions Marky misses you.
 
If there was a Meta post about this new think, I must have missed it
 
He's been torturing Vihan in your absence.
 
@Geobits I'll go pay him a visit right now.
 
Oh good, he golfed it in revision 4.
 
Social experiment: See how long it takes to get edit-banned on SO by golfing accepted answers' code. And yea, I'm pretty sure edit-banning isn't a thing (yet).
 
it is. It's called a suspension
 
I guess, although that's a bit broad.
 
@Geobits sometimes it worries me how hard you try to get banned/flagged etc.
 
1:25 AM
@Geobits they have to be accepted, unless you got the privs
 
@Quill I've got the privs :)
@MyHamDJ I haven't ever been banned except one 30-min flag in chat IIRC.
It's fun to dream though.
 
@Geobits mod tools claim you've never had a chat suspension
 
Really? Huh, I could have sworn I had.
I know I've been flagged at least. I guess it didn't take.
 
You have had a single flagged message (2 flags on it)
 
Yay
 
1:29 AM
Mods can see how many flags someone has gotten?
 
I have no clue what it was though.
 
For the record though, I've had 8 messages flagged
 
hahaha
How many have I had flagged?
 
'tis what happens when you try to moderate chat
 
I'm better at chat than doorknob! Woo!
 
1:29 AM
@Doorknob you also had a phallic phase
 
@AquaTart two
 
Really?
Huh.
 
I find it kind of amusing that someone flagged this
Apr 1 '15 at 12:56, by Doorknob
Stop with the flags, please.
 
Well, it was April Fools.
Maybe they thought it was a joke?
 
Heh. Nobody flagging in TNB on april 1st was thinking of jokes iirc.
 
1:30 AM
TBF, people star what you explicitly ask them not to star.
 
I'm also being ignored by 3 users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I'm being ignored by at least one (I assume still, but maybe not now).
 
can you see who has the most flags out of all the users on SE, or is it a needa-name-thing
 
yes. It's 313
 
Huh, I've had three messages flagged.
 
1:33 AM
(I somehow feel like it's a bad idea to reveal information about other users being flagged though, so I won't name anybody :P)
 
how does one get 313 flags
 
Also the second-most-flagged user has 218 and is a moderator haha
 
I want that steam achievement
 
@Quill dedication
 
wait
wait wait
I'm an idiot
I was looking at a different list
 
1:36 AM
@Doorknob I concur
 
that's number of users invited, not number of times flagged... what was I thinking
@RenderSettings >_<
Ok well the most flagged user is 207
followed by a user with 87, who is a moderator
 
Haha, StackExchange is the most-ignored account. :P
Hah, I recognize a couple names of the most-flagged users from them being trollish on C.SE...
 
Is anyone here good at Truth Tables?
 
@ETHproductions You just had to get him to kill me, huh? :P
 
@DemCodeLines What do you mean by "good" and "truth tables"?
 
1:43 AM
Binary converters
 
Be specific. You'll get better answers.
 
I don't understand where the numbers in the first column come from.
 
@Doorknob I'd love if it was the same moderator that's been invited
(removed)
 
@DemCodeLines Can you provide any more context?
 
It seems incredibly rude in general to be putting your feet on someone else's desk, leaving aside the unwanted crotch proximity that results. — Tim B 14 hours ago
I concur.
 
1:46 AM
Yea, the first column seems out of place without more.
 
Line the edge of your desk with small delicate porcelain figurines.
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or take up the room on your desk with your shoes, so he can't put his shoes on there
 
Or smack his feet off your desk next time >_>
 
Make everyone remove shoes when entering your office.
 
1:48 AM
Better yet, straight up murder your coworkers
 
Superglue. Anything that touches this desk stays there.
 
@RenderSettings Nah, get Marky to do it. Plausible deniability is key.
 
and film a reality documentary on it as well
 
Install a guillotine around the edges of your desk. Put your feet on the desk at your own risk.
 
> Creation of new accounts on MDN is unavailable while we devise a solution to an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
MDN is getting DOSd, lol
 
1:50 AM
Lol!
 
ono
 
I bet it's those javascript haters
 
@AlexA. There was a suggestion like that already.
sneeze violently and accidentally punch him in the family jewels While amusing as a comment on the Internet, this is a really good way to get yourself on disciplinary action. Be the professional one. — Jane S ♦ yesterday
 
Those reasonable and logical people give me shivers
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I did say it as a joke. While you may feel the urge to do so, it does come with consequences. I could imagine if you did do it it would be very hard to explain. Boss: "She punched me in the nuts!" HR: "How did she manage to do that?" Boss: "Well I had my foot on her desk and my genitals were facing her.." HR: "...Why was your foot on her desk in the first place?" — jcmack yesterday
 
1:53 AM
@DemCodeLines just disappeared
 
@Dennis: What is this beauty?
 
It overwrites the default values of ³ to with up to 5 command-line arguments.
 
@ZachGates literal => args['³⁴⁵⁶⁷'.index(literal)])
 
@MartinBüttner still on HNQ a week later. Quite a question...
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Q: Why is 1 - 1/(1 - 1/(1 - ...)) not real?

Martin BüttnerSo we all know that the continued fraction containing all $1$s... $$ x = 1 + \frac{1}{1 + \frac{1}{1 + \ldots}} $$ yields the golden ratio $x = \phi$, which can easily be proven by rewriting it as $x = 1 + 1/x$, solving the resulting quadratic equation and assuming that a continued fraction tha...

 
@MarsUltor I'm still here. Just don't know how to give more context without literally copy+pasting everything.
 
1:56 AM
> 1681993/why-is-1-1-1-1-1-not-real
hehe
 
@DemCodeLines Copy-paste the link?
 
@ZachGates From the address? Does look even stranger that way...
 
Yeah lol
 
@MarsUltor Well, I am currently in school and we were given a practice assignment along with solutions. I don't understand how the first and last column were derived in that image (solution), so I came to ask.
 
@DemCodeLines Yeah, can you upload to somewhere or something/screenshot the entire question and link?
@DemCodeLines You haven't stated how the table was produced.
 

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