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12:18 AM
@Cerberus What is the source of the geotagging for wiki articles? The location of a person at the time of authorship of an article? Or is someone arbitrarily choosing a lat-long to attach to the article (but presumably near what the article is about)?
 
12:36 AM
That line in canada looks like a highway or train line from Saskatoon to Churchill. Too evenly spaced, like the prime meridian line. At first I thought the PM line was a coding error (accidentally getting 0 longitude, but they're too evenly spaced, and there's no equally likely line at the equator. But why would anyone care about geotagging -different- places in the middle of Greenland. It's not like the geological formations there are nameable.
 
@Cerberus He would never put up links to popular music.
 
@Mitch The latter: many Wiki articles contain a geotag related to the subject of the article, apparently.
 
@Robusto I guess not...
 
@Cerberus Yeah. China doesn't publish. They just steal.
 
12:47 AM
posted on October 11, 2013 by sgdi

I once had a terrible pain A buzzing inside of my brain In short and sharp bursts It only got worse I shouldn’t have sniffed that butane

 
2:13 AM
@Robusto Meh, to some extent; but this graph rather represents how fucked up the academic system of H-indices and publication insanity is.
 
 
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3:43 AM
@KitFox hooray!
 
4:31 AM
Former Senator Rick Santorum fingered gay men today as the cause of the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Now that I have your attention ... ATT DSL? Charter Cable? Sprint 4G? For home phone, Internet, and mobile phone service.
@Robusto I never would have bet on Cat Stevens getting a sex change. Weird.
 
5:08 AM
What are you talking about.
 
5:32 AM
@Cerberus I am shopping for better telecom service.
This is the funniest misspelling I've seen in a long time:
> my defag dose a good job,it’s free dnd has plenty of potions.I think it was once called DIRMS which stands for,do it right microsoft.
I think he's right. D&D does have plenty of potions.
Also exactly how much is a defag dose?
And is it a potion?
 
6:12 AM
@Cerberus Go Netherlands! I really like that chartformat.
 
@MετάEd Wow. Impressive.
As to telcos, I cannot advise you except for my own market.
@JohanLarsson Yeah, well, it's not something to be proud of, but rather a sign of how academic publishing is monopolised and squeezed out by a few big players on the one hand, and how universities and governments incentivise publishing and scores the wrong way, overquantification.
 
gtg to work, back in 3
 
6:28 AM
Bai.
 
Hai from the trenches
 
6:45 AM
Reopen this as not GR?
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Q: What's exactly I'mma? I'mma go now, I'mma open that for you

Massimo StrambiniWhen I chat I hear sometimes "I'mma ..." like in: "I'mma go now" or "I'mma open that for you" I am not sure how it's written, I have never got a precise answer when I asked. Should I learn to use it to speak more natural? Where does it come from by the way?

See T.E.D.'s comment
 
 
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11:49 AM
@Cerberus I wonder if there's a way to search on those tags. Then we could look for those with longitude 0 and see the pattern.
 
12:05 PM
maybe reopen:
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Q: Difference between "social" and "societal"

ComputistWhat's the difference between social and societal? Are they perfectly synonymous? If not, what is the difference in nuance? The relevant definition of social reads: relating to society or its organization The only definition of societal is: relating to society or social relations NGr...

 
Why?
And hi!
And I'm working elsewhere, so I only have half an eye here.
 
Hi!
Because the question has been refined considerably since it was closed and is now a valid question
commute!
 
12:23 PM
Gosh I want to make Internet a better place
 
12:48 PM
Done. Next problem?
 
1:02 PM
@Cerberus “Lesus”, quis est?
 
1:19 PM
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A: Is There a Way to Remember Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives

tchristThere is no way to “remember” the part of speech of a word in isolation, because there is no such thing. Grammatical roles in English are fluid things which are assigned based on how a word happens to be used in any particular utterance. It’s like asking whether record is a noun or a verb wh...

 
1:39 PM
yawns
need moar coffee
 
Vitaly paid a visit!
 
Yay!
 
I wish I knew the species
 
Guys, don't you think this blog post is written like Fifty Shades of Grey?
 
reverse GIS didn't help
 
I've not read 50 shades of grey
 
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Q: Typographical symbol to indicate page number

Pedro L.There are many typographical symbols, for example: The pilcrow (¶) is used for paragraphs. The asterisk, dagger and double dagger (*,†,‡) for footnotes. The hurricane (§) for sections. Is there any symbol for pages?

Do we want this?
@MattЭллен It's hard to see.
 
@KitFox yeah, getting a good photo was too difficult
 
I wrote something new yesterday.
 
orly?
@KitFox what is it about?
 
yeah! that could be it :D thanks!
Ima put food in my face
bbl
 
@MattЭллен A Ruined Soul
 
2:08 PM
Mornin.
 
Morning. I just caught up on Girl Genius.
 
Those wacky jägers.
 
Frigging users. grits teeth
 
2:28 PM
What's the general course of action for virtually useless tags? Do they clean themselves up?
 
Gosh, I really don't understand what does DMA (Direct Memory Access) do
And stuck at this and CPU cycle for 3 days or something XD..
 
@MrHen ask @JSB, he's our tag man.
The unused ones disappear eventually, I think.
The others are usually put up to a vote...I think.
 
@KitFox Mmk.
 
What, do I have to wait for Lawler to duck his head in to get an upvote? This is a good answer, and one that the site needs:
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A: Is There a Way to Remember Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives

tchristBare Words Can Have No “Part of Speech” There is no way to “remember” the part of speech of a word in isolation, because there is no such thing. Grammatical roles in English are fluid things which are assigned based on how a word happens to be used in any particular utterance. It’s like asking...

 
tl;dr
Also, typography question incoming.
 
2:38 PM
The two titles tell the entire story.
@KitFox Uh oh.
@KitFox tl;dr: (1) Bare Words Can Have No “Part of Speech” (2) Just how many parts of speech are there?
 
I don't think that's what he's asking.
I think he means things like "A noun is a person, place, or thing."
 
@KitFox What do you think he is asking?
@KitFox I guess I could add links to Schoolhouse Rock. :)
 
Oct 7 at 13:04, by KitFox
lally lally lally get your adverbs here
 
I once posted all of them, or at least all of the good ones, for either @Cerb or @Reg, who didn’t grow up with them as we did.
 
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Q: Typographical symbol to indicate page number

Pedro L.There are many typographical symbols, for example: The pilcrow (¶) is used for paragraphs. The asterisk, dagger and double dagger (*,†,‡) for footnotes. The hurricane (§) for sections. Is there any symbol for pages?

 
2:43 PM
I see that.
 
I thought you might have a good answer.
 
Well, sometimes people use the pilcrow for the page not the paragraph, and use the section symbol for the paragraph.
Also, there are other footnote symbols than those, but nobody much uses them.
‭ ¶  00B6       PILCROW SIGN
        = paragraph sign
        * section sign in some European usage
        x (reversed pilcrow sign - 204B)
        x (curved stem paragraph sign ornament - 2761)
‭ ⁋  204B       REVERSED PILCROW SIGN
        x (pilcrow sign - 00B6)
‭ ❡  2761       CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT
        x (pilcrow sign - 00B6)
 
For example, this one is used in certain footnote sequences:
‭ ‖  2016       DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE
        * used in pairs to indicate norm of a matrix
        x (combining double vertical stroke overlay - 20E6)
        x (parallel to - 2225)
I could flip through Bringhurst, I suppose.
He’s good with that.
In Syriac, there is not a beginning of paragraph marker, but an end of paragraph marker.
Lots of languages have their own.
‭ ܀  0700       SYRIAC END OF PARAGRAPH
        * marks the end of a paragraph
‭ ༈  0F08       TIBETAN MARK SBRUL SHAD
        * separates sections of meaning equivalent to topics and sub-topics
‭ ჻  10FB       GEORGIAN PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
‭ ፨  1368       ETHIOPIC PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
‭ ※  203B       REFERENCE MARK
        = Japanese kome
        = Urdu paragraph separator
I was thinking there was a "pagina" sign with a P and superscript a the there is a "numero" sign with an N and a superscript o, but there does not seem to be. It may be a Castilian affectation.
U+20A8 ‭ ₨  RUPEE SIGN
U+2100 ‭ ℀  ACCOUNT OF
U+2101 ‭ ℁  ADDRESSED TO THE SUBJECT
U+2103 ‭ ℃  DEGREE CELSIUS
U+2105 ‭ ℅  CARE OF
U+2106 ‭ ℆  CADA UNA
U+2109 ‭ ℉  DEGREE FAHRENHEIT
U+2116 ‭ №  NUMERO SIGN
U+2120 ‭ ℠  SERVICE MARK
U+2121 ‭ ℡  TELEPHONE SIGN
U+2122 ‭ ™  TRADE MARK SIGN
U+213B ‭ ℻  FACSIMILE SIGN
U+00A9 ‭ ©  COPYRIGHT SIGN
U+00AE ‭ ®  REGISTERED SIGN
U+20A7 ‭ ₧  PESETA SIGN
U+20AC ‭ €  EURO SIGN
U+20AF ‭ ₯  DRACHMA SIGN
U+211E ‭ ℞  PRESCRIPTION TAKE
U+2125 ‭ ℥  OUNCE SIGN
U+214A ‭ ⅊  PROPERTY LINE
Wow, there’s NAMBLA sign!
 
2:58 PM
Haha
 
Guys, what's the relationship between CPU cycles and GPU cycles?
nvm
 
@tchrist Iesus.
 
Pax vobiscum.
It’s still a typo.
 
Not lesus, which would mean something like "hurt".
@tchrist It does have an awfully long horizontal line...
 
And I see I have attracted the Lawler.
I've always been interested in classifications, and this is a good one, pretty much what I learned and use as a grammarian. But it's got more detail than one needs, at first; later on it's a good list to have, though the bullet points never format right for sublists, I've found. The main point, though, is that naming word classes is only useful if you understand what each class does in grammar and can use them to put together constituents. Constituents are what English grammar is about; not words. — John Lawler 6 mins ago
God how full of typos can one posting be?
 
3:09 PM
Hmm what typos?
 
This sentence bothers me:
>But it's got more detail than one needs, at first; later on it's a good list to have, though the bullet points never format right for sublists, I've found.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The last half is the problem.
 
Four minutes until he can get to the first level.
 
Top of the comb, @MrHen.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oi.
 
3:14 PM
10 hours ago, by MετάEd
> my defag dose a good job,it’s free dnd has plenty of potions.I think it was once called DIRMS which stands for,do it right microsoft.
 
Every time I visit Writers I get a weird, disturbed feeling. What was it for, again?
 
@MrHen authors, editors, reviewers, professional writers, and aspiring writers.
 
@MrHen "to build a library of detailed answers to every question about writing, copywriting, publishing or editing"
 
I had a hard time with it, but I frequent their chat for writing conversation.
 
3:18 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes, but that's the answer to "who was it for, again".
 
@MετάEd two shay.
 
@MετάEd So how many questions are actually about copywriting, publishing or editing?
Because "writing" seems too generic to be useful and too flexible of a topic to deal in broadly appealing advice.
 
One might say the same about programming.
 
@KitFox I like it. Good ending. A bit wordy with some of the descriptions, but I like how you set the scene.
 
People post wrong questions all the time. I think the better question is, how's the library of good answers coming?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 How so? There is a world of difference between the concepts of proper or correct programming and proper or correct writing.
 
@MrHen Both worlds are very large.
 
@MετάEd Well, I typically look at the Top Voted questions. And I'm not impressed yet.
 
I have mentioned that I have no idea how to ask an on-topic question on Writers.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Size isn't really an issue... ?
 
3:22 PM
Everything I can think of seems entirely subjective.
 
@MrHen How about a list of top-voted answers?
 
It's not the idea that bothers me. I think it is a great idea.
 
Does such a thing even exist?
 
@MετάEd Hm, that would be interesting.
 
@KitFox Should I lay my pages out on a grid?
 
3:23 PM
@MrHen I'm saying I don't see what your point is, exactly. There are standards for writing and programming, and plenty of room for creativity in both. There are many flavors of both writing and programming.
Consider that for our purposes, the writing is only done in one language.
 
@MετάEd [off-topic] subjective
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 "Creative" programming is still trying to solve a concrete problem and can determine success by whether the program accomplishes its stated goal.
 
@MrHen Same with copywriting, for instance.
 
5 mins ago, by MrHen
@MετάEd So how many questions are actually about copywriting, publishing or editing?
 
You tell me.
You're the one who's concerned.
I've seen plenty about the last two.
 
3:26 PM
It's not my site. I am trying to figure out what the site's purpose is and whether it is succeeding.
I mean, the thing is still in Beta after how many years?
 
Ask Neil or Monica.
 
Three years, I think.
 
Plenty of programmers can't spell, and the ones who can are here. And only a subset of those are writers.
 
It's because of the question/day, and nothing else.
 
Fuck this, I have a headache.
 
3:27 PM
hugs @corn
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Bummer :(
 
You know what helps with a headache?
 
@KitFox squee
@KitFox stubbing your toe?
 
I could show you.
 
puts on Barry White
 
3:29 PM
@KitFox Subjective questions (even subjective answers) are not off the table. There are very good books written that explain and defend the topic of gridding a book design, using facts and reason.
 
@MετάEd Right. So I guess that's fine and all... but how does that turn into a useful Question + Answer on StackExchange?
To be clear, I don't have anything against Writers.SE
The fundamental problem is that I have no idea how to contribute to it with either Questions or Answers.
 
@MrHen That's how I feel. Now. Lunchtime.
 
I wander in thinking, "Hey, I like writing. I should help out Writers!"
And then poke around for a few minutes thinking, "I... guess I don't know what I was expecting."
 
You could answer janoChen's questions. There are plenty to choose from.
 
@Cerberus I had typos.
Doubtless still do.
 
3:32 PM
Oh, I see.
 
I just fixed those I saw.
And left those I didn’t.
I even added something for @Kit. :)
But maybe the guy just needs Schoolhouse Rock. Dunno.
Still, our site needs an answer like mine. We probably have a few already, but an extensive one never hurt anyone.
 
Quick! I need a word with an ee->oo diphthong.
 
Except for my carpal tunnel syndrome.
Which I don’t have.
@MrHen cute
 
@tchrist Perfect, thanks.
 
3:36 PM
@tchrist Barry will disapprove!
But I have to go.
Bai!
 
Why?
 
Why Barrie diapprove?
Bai.
Miss American Pai.
 
@tchrist he hates long answers
 
3:38 PM
@tchrist Barrie will disapprove because your answer was longer than five words.
 
There something horribly satisfying when I get rep back from someone deleting a post I downvoted. Mwahaha.
 
Bai!
 
@MattЭллен He and I shall never see eye to eye then.
 
@Cerberus CU
 
Plus, that is not a long answer.
 
3:38 PM
@tchrist I thought your answer was a tad on the long side, myself. But I figured it was appropriate enough. :)
 
It is a medium answer.
@MrHen I figure the rearrangement will help the length issue.
 
@tchrist Could be. I haven't looked at it in the past few minutes.
 
I gave a one line answer, then a coupla paragraph answer, then lots of examples.
 
@MrHen Maybe you're not an expert in the writing and publishing business?
 
Damn it, I still count four typos.
 
3:47 PM
@MετάEd Maybe. It's not like I felt as if I couldn't answer something due to expertise. It was more that I felt as if I didn't understand the purpose of the site.
Which is fine; it just means it isn't for me.
 
4:20 PM
"It looks like you could have some major minor injuries."
 
@KitFox "I think it looks like you could have some majorly minor injuries."
 
Do you know ASMR?
This guy's one of my favorites:
Ephemeral Rift, funny and good at triggering.
 
@KitFox '...a professor at the University of Sheffield, says, "It might well be a real thing,..."'
 
I knew a Professor at the University of Sheffield.
 
It's not him.
 
4:32 PM
May 11 '12 at 16:18, by KitFox
There's a man from the University of Sheffield who I am quite fond of.
 
Tom...
Tom Stafford.
 
> "My name is Maria," begins one hugely popular ASMR video with over 300,000 hits, "and I was asked to be your home decor consultant for today." Maria then spends almost 20 minutes demonstrating how to fold towels. I absolutely adore it. I watch it all the time. My friends think I'm mad.
Maria is definitely a favorite.
Not only is she Russian, her folding videos give me a buzz like crazy.
> For years, viewers with no interest in painting derived more pleasure than they could explain from watching [Bob] Ross talk softly while dabbing paint on a canvas, but it clearly ticks all the ASMR boxes: expertise, precision, reassuring speech patterns and gentle sounds, from which that characteristic 'tingling' inevitably follows.
 
@KitFox I have read a little about this phenomenon. It might be that you mentioned it before and I got curious.
 
I learned about it from JSB.
I had the typical response: "Oh! That's a thing? Not everybody gets that sensation?"
And I listen to them almost every day while I work.
 
4:49 PM
@KitFox Sadly it doesn't do a thing for me. But now I roll my washcloths differently.
 
If you've had that tingling sensation before, you might just need a different set of triggers.
 
HI
Hi
 
@KitFox I don't know if I have.
 
I will it see it this evening
this doesnt make any sense to me.
I think the it in there is redundant and wrong. Although some say it's grammatically correct but archaic
 
@MετάEd It's distinctive. A sort of buzzing sensation, tickling in your ears, scalp prickling.
@Noah It makes no sense to have that first it.
 
5:04 PM
3
A: Can I use "after" before the afternoon? Is it grammatically right?

Barrie EnglandAfter afternoon is the evening, so a native speaker would normally say 'I will it see it this evening'.

Andrew says it's correct.
 
@KitFox Hmm. I think not then. I've had sleep paralysis, which is an interesting (but terrifying) sensation in my head, but not a buzzing/tickling/prickling.
 
I think Barry claims the same thing.
 
@MετάEd No, no, it's not like sleep paralysis at all. More like being tickled in your head.
 
Right. Sounds a lot more pleasant.
 
@Noah No, he doesn't. He didn't notice it, and then wasn't sure if you meant it.
@MετάEd It's very pleasant.
Relaxing. The kind of thing you'd imagine would make a dog's tongue loll out of its head.
 
5:25 PM
@KitFox Does it make you do the scratching motion with your paw?
 
Sometimes.
Oh no!
I just made changes on production by accident!
 
5:49 PM
@KitFox Hurray! Now you're Google.
 
Awkward.
 
6:04 PM
@KitFox it sounds altogether unpleasant.
 
You don't like tickling, eh?
 
I absolutely fucking hate it.
It's like being electrocuted.
 
Well. Different strokes for different folks.
 
One who is truly ticklish does not enjoy it.
I had an ex who had tickling as a kink. An ex.
 
harrumph
 
6:07 PM
1 min ago, by cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
It's like being electrocuted.
 
I hear that you don't like it.
I happen to enjoy the taste of batteries.
 
"Yessss," she said breathily.
 
Now I can almost taste batteries.
It pains me that I want to swap spit with you.
Also, my users are giving my awful shit today.
 
6:11 PM
Hai!
 
Hai :D
 
Wordy, eh?
slaps @Matt
 
I gave in to pinterest. I've had one a while, but I'm usin' it nao.
 
6:12 PM
How's that for wordy.
 
one too many, if you ask me
 
I think you meant rowdy.
 
feels sassy
now feels kinda bad
 
Sorry, I was just playing.
 
6:13 PM
it's OK. face punch over IP isn't a thing yet.
at least, not to the general public
 
giggles, runs tongue over teeth
 
@KitFox also notice that I enjoyed the story, too :Þ
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 is pintrest fun?
 
I had a lot more thought inside it, but I figured that made a sufficient bookmark for the topic I wanted to explore. I've got a thing to write for Neil.
 
@MattЭллен shrug. It's oddly lonely.
Which is fine by me.
 
takes a pinterest in @Corn
 
oh!
Sorry.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 hmmm
 
Want me to kiss it?
 
@MattЭллен I guess I could comment on stuff, but meh.
 
6:15 PM
aye
 
It's nice for collecting pictures of pretty things.
Can you get to that?
 
Hey! My son's first pic!
 
Yeah! I changed that from Bender just today.
Is that okay? :x
I was like, this Bender picture is scary.
 
It's fine by me.
 
Hooray!
I have to either eat or move this Subway cookie.
It smells real good, see.
 
6:18 PM
eat!
 
ok.
Stupid heightened werewolf senses.
 
Oh, now I understand.
What you tried to say to me.
How you suffered for your sanity.
How you tried to set them free; they would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
 
chicken little got emo'd
 
I hate MS office.
 
I hated sucking at using Visio today
 
6:29 PM
yeah. it sucks. what's it doing now?
 
Fuuuuuck. What is it with people not being able to follow simple instructions today!?
 
it's Friday.
people are dumber on Friday
 
@MattЭллен It is really strange that it can suck so hard, must be a top 10 commercial success software of all times. They have managed to make it really bloated and avoid a lot of would be useful functionality.
 
> I am having trouble entering my students into [the system]. Can you help?
 
@KitFox "here, let me move your fingers for you"
@JohanLarsson and so much backward compatibility that relies on bugs in the software. mind boggling.
 
6:33 PM
> I watched at the tutorial, and it was not useful in this instance.
> it tells me that the student is already in the system and to contact [the helpdesk email].
^ sent to my personal email
> I don't know my user name or password. Can you help me out?
^In response to the email that says "your username is your first initial and your last name. If you don't remember your password, use the Reset Password link."
 
> Can't help now, busy chatting
 
Point is, they don't need help, they need to read the fucking instructions.
Every last goddamn one of them.
The user issues today, I mean. Fifteen or so.
And every single one is something they can do.
OK, except this one.
ARGH! BUGS!
 
6:58 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Okay, what good is it really? I'm pin-curious.
 
@MετάEd I'm going to use it to collect ideas, including color combinations.
 
Nature is good with coming up with color combinations
 
commits changes for the third time today
glares @Johan
 
loves Fox
 
OK ima commute cu u all soon
 
7:17 PM
@KitFox CU
 
8:14 PM
...and I'm back.
 
nice commute, did you walk?
 
No.
 
but it must be close
 
Took me fifteen minutes just to get off campus.
 
nvm, read the timestamps very wrong
felt like three minutes
 
8:17 PM
Glad to know you missed me.
 
yeah, sixtyish minutes felt like three long minutes! :D
 
I'm going to go hit a bag for a few minutes. Later.
 
'hit a bag'? Is that what kids call it these days?
 
I'm thinking boxing
but could be a bag full of glue?
 
Bag of hair? Bag of hammers?
maybe 'bag' is her mom, and 'hit' is hit up for' as in cigs. 'I am going to ask my mother for a cigarette'.
 
8:29 PM
When I trim my dog we produce a bag of hair
 
There you go.
 
bag of hammers does not happen much, does not sound very convenient carrying around
 
Boxing. Yes.
 
8:46 PM
@JohanLarsson Some people can carry a whole bag inside a very small cranium.
And, under the heading of Who Gives A Flying Fuck:
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Q: "Currently the environment is so contaminated" vs. "the environment is currently so contaminated"

KItis Currently the environment is so contaminated that urgent measures should be taken. The environment is currently so contaminated that urgent measures should be taken. Are both sentences grammatical? Do they convey different meanings depending on where currently is used?

 
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