**It's your last chance to sign up for custom Charcoal and SOBotics stickers!** Address collection closes on Saturday 2018-02-10 at 20:00Z. To sign up, [fill out this form](goo.gl/forms/9I6yExpfJRVMbrh02).
I can't set the seconds, and it errors out when you try to submit due to the missing attribute
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Just over 3 hours until stickers closes. People who filled in the initial survey but haven't yet signed up (that's @GrumpyCrouton @FrankerZ @CaffeineAddiction @JoErNanO @SurajRao @JF @doppelgreener @Magisch @JakeSymons @Seth), this is your last chance to sign up if you want to participate in this run.
@ArtOfCode Do you need a certain rep level to ping a lot of people, or is that just in comments not chat. And I won't be taking any stickers this time round fyi,
@doppelgreener Thanks! The extra you entered there is the perfect amount to push us up to the next bulk level of stickers (so we could get 200 instead of 100) - I'm gonna throw it towards that, if you don't mind :)
@Catija That'd be interesting. I've wondered about twitter, but never really thought of a good use for it - anytime we need help from SE either Undo or I tweet at Nick :P
@Catija I always remember that for each 1 minute of commute time (both directions) it's more than 1 work-day per year. So a 5 minute commute is a work-week/year. A 20 minute commute is a work-month/year. A 1 hour commute is 3 work-months per year, just commuting.
@Seth @ArtOfCode Whatever you can do to make that time at least semi-productive is a good thing. However, for the vast majority of people, it's just moving their body from one place to the other. For many (most?) it's a source of additional stress.
@Seth The average commute time in the US is 25 minutes. That's 5 work-weeks/year, on average, or about an additional 10% of the total time spent working. It's a lot of time for people to be unproductive (even if it's that they are asleep for that extra time; improves quality of life, one way or another). Having things like self-driving cars will be a vast improvement. I wouldn't really mind a commute, that much, if I could do whatever other things I'd reasonably desire during that time.
ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan; it was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address. The basic format consists of five digits. An extended 'ZIP+4' code was introduced in 1983 which includes the five digits of the ZIP Code, followed by a hyphen and four additional digits that determine a more specific location.
The term ZIP Code was originally registered as a servicemark by the U.S. Postal Service...
@Makyen It was a question on the initial survey, so instead of making people answer it again I figured I'd just correlate the first result set with this one... which, of course, failed as soon as someone answered this one without the first one :)
@ArtOfCode Basically, you really need the first 5. The extra 4 are helpful, but only needed in some rare situations. Even after 35 years, people often don't provide them or even know the correct number for their own address. Forms often don't collect them, thus people aren't forced to remember them.
@ArtOfCode Yeah, isn't that the way it always works. Things break as soon as they encounter the real world. :-)
@Makyen Makes sense. Actually sounds kinda like just a plain house number over here (I know it's not, but they sound approximately equivalent).
We get N13 5RJ as a postcode, which uniquely identifies one side of a road; you add the house number, and you can uniquely identify any address in the country.
If you know the system you can kinda tell where a postcode is by the first one or two letters - NXX for North London, LXX for Liverpool, NEXX for... most of the North East of England, PO for Portsmouth, etc etc
@JohnDvorak In the US, the postal service will still attempt to make the delivery with only partial information. A full address usually contains redundant information, but, as you say, missing information will result in delivery delays. The main thing is that the format is intended to be able to be machine read. If that's not possible, or if there are errors, then it goes to a human, which may be before, or after, it's mis-routed.
Same here. But then again, the usual delivery times between cities tend to be in order of one week - and that's a country that spans an entirety of 600 kilometers or so.
@ArtOfCode :-) nice name. The USPS has a center where mail which is unable to be delivered due to addressing issues goes, presumably after it's rejected and not recovered locally or regionally. It used to be called the "Dead Letter Office", but is now the "Mail Recovery Center". Before going there, if the address is mostly right it'll get into the hands of the local carrier. Who, if good, will know names for all customers and be able to correctly deliver many addressing errors.
Address collection is closed! Look out for an email in your inbox about prices and how to pay; it'll come from art@charcoal-se.org. I'll drop prices here and on metasmoke momentarily.
@DavidPostill sending cash in the post probably ain't a great idea, but I'll happily take a cheque. I'll stick my address on the end of your invoice email :)
benefits of living in same country as distributor - cheques are easy
We had a discussion yesterday about adding a regex to catch "Donald Trump" and variants in usernames. I'm thinking about adding don(ald)?(\W*j)?\W*trump.
I'd add it as a new reason so it gets its own reason weight (and we can pin it to zero in MS if desired), and set it to only search usernames, with a max rep of 1 and a max score of 0. Any thoughts/objections?