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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: What are good strategies and build orders for a newbie player? by Academia Gamer on gaming.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer: How do I tell a co-worker that just because something is a hobby doesn't mean I want to do it for free? by bob on interpersonal.SE

tpu- by NobodyNada

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly dots in body: How to Retrain Inception's Final Layer for New Categories by user3483676 on stackoverflow.com

NobodyNada

sd f

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Glorfindel on What are good strategies and build orders for a newbie player? [MS]

Sconibulus

@SmokeDetector tpu-

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SmokeDetector

21:50

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in body: Dont correct genesis block by web123sw on stackoverflow.com

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Byte Commander

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SmokeDetector

22:07

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer: Starting a hangout with a list of users invited by harry winks on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by J F

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: Personal finance by Sami on money.SE

fp- by ByteCommander

SmokeDetector

22:40

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer: 2 year Toddler separation anxiety by andaline festus on parenting.SE

tpu- by ArtOfCode

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, blacklisted user: How do you reduce feelings of guilt for leaving children for a date night ? by andaline festus on parenting.SE

[ SmokeDetector ] (MS 80539) Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, blacklisted user: How can I deal with adopted son who promised to the god he believes in to never to speak until he sees mommy again, when mommy is dead? by andaline festus on parenting.SE

tpu- by ArtOfCode

Nisse Engström

22:59

@SmokeDetector tpu-

ArtOfCode

so... our company intranet is a Rails app, and our company extranet is an ASP.NET app

quartata

Uh why did that last one have no MS

!!/location!!!!

SmokeDetector

@quartata ArtOfCode/EC2

quartata

Not enough room?

ArtOfCode

nope

quartata

23:12

Maybe we should abbreviate the titles?

ArtOfCode

I'm not sure it's a Real Issue (tm)

ms/posts/latest

failing that, just look at the posts page

quartata

MS view is significantly better than actually going to the post on mobile

Which is why I like the MS link

ArtOfCode

posts page on MS, not site

anyway, the ID's edited in

quartata

I know

but muh workflow

ArtOfCode

chat length limits slightly trump that :P

quartata

23:15

Wait the ID gets edited in?

This reminded me of something important about the MS runner we talked about for NG but now I can't remember

ArtOfCode

no, I edited the ID in

quartata

ArtOfCode

@quartata yeah, shortening MS links to ID-based rather than URL-based

quartata

@ArtOfCode yes right thank you

ArtOfCode

which I'm not sure we ever concluded

quartata

23:18

I think I bookmarked it

ArtOfCode

Hm. I wonder if US customers turn up on the UK booking system...

J F

@SmokeDetector @ArtOfCode Why doesn’t the list of reasons get shortened here?

quartata

By the way all, I'm still waiting for people to port spam checks :PP

@JF only if there are more than 5

J F

ArtOfCode

@JF shrug What's the threshold for that?

@quartata I think it's a pretty safe bet at this point that not many people are interested in doing that

and when I say not many I mean zero

quartata

23:24

Hence the :P

MS musings

Mar 30 at 14:56, 1 hour 24 minutes total – 86 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked Mar 30 at 22:30 by quartata

This was made before the database though

So storing IDs is more feasible

At least in NG

SmokeDetector

Restart: API quota is 14558.

ArtOfCode

@quartata uh... it is?

quartata

It won't all be in memory at once so yeah

This is referring to a dictionary of message IDs -> MS IDs

ArtOfCode

Oh, that

quartata

Yeah sorry the conversation is pretty broad

ArtOfCode

23:32

Yeah, just add an optional ms_id attribute to smokedetector_messages

quartata

But all the issues at play here boil down to by-post

ArtOfCode

Also in today's work stories: my site manager and duty manager think I'm a government spy... I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not, but it's pretty amusing

quartata

What??

ArtOfCode

Apparently mirrored sunglasses and an earpiece make me a government spy.

quartata

Was it a joke?

ArtOfCode

23:35

(possibly also something to do that I was running through GH notifications in a car with a bunch of them a while back, which is "magical code stuff")

@quartata supposedly it's a genuine theory they have

quartata

lolololol

ArtOfCode

so I'm feeding it

quartata

Presumably your job involves "magical code stuff" though...

ArtOfCode

Nope, entirely non-technical job, which means any degree of computer literacy at all is magical

quartata

Well next time you should pull up guihacker

guihacker.com

292

A: Make it look like I'm working

JavaScript So I went a little crazy with this. I did it between breaks from working on my GUI to track IP's using Visual Basic. You can access it by going to the super serious domain I made for it tonight as well so you can look busy anywhere Gui Hacker and fork and create your own from the fol...

PPCG had some weird old challenges

Also just realize without the link to the original answer that totally looks like spam

I'm not a bot I swear

ArtOfCode

23:44

definitely

...I'm so tempted to put guihacker on fullscreen on my manager's PC

quick @Undo what's the fullscreen toggle hotkey on a Mac

quartata

If I tell you do you promise not to get yourself fired

ArtOfCode

yup :)

quartata

cmd-ctrl-f I think

Undo

@ArtOfCode um, what app?

quartata

If it's Sierra you can just hit maximize though

ArtOfCode

23:47

...that's effort

why not F11 :P

@Undo Chrome

quartata

Oh Chrome has F11

ArtOfCode

like, borderless, chrome-less (not Chrome-less) fullscreen

quartata

I assumed Safari

Undo

@ArtOfCode control-command-F

ArtOfCode

this is definitely a good idea

Undo

23:49

It probably isn't :P

quartata

Order doesn't matter does it

@ArtOfCode I really don't recommend this

Undo

oh, yeah don't do that @ArtOfCode. Really don't.

quartata

Your computer, fine, but not your boss's

ArtOfCode

spoilsports ;)

quartata

Crap I think we've inadvertently enabled him

ArtOfCode

23:50

nah, I wasn't planning on actually doing it

Undo

ArtOfCode

I have some sense, even if it's not particularly evident sometimes :P

@quartata 's ok I'd've Googled it if you didn't tell me :)

Undo

If you ever use a Mac of your own, though, spectacleapp.com is a must. Like Windows' window management but better

and FOSS

quartata

> like Windows's window management

hard pass

ArtOfCode

windows' windows

quartata

23:52

i3 or bust

Undo

Also, in today's "Undo using Windows" news, the IT people fixed my docking station but managed to break my WiFi.

like, I turn it on, it looks around for networks for a few seconds then turns itself off. Animation and everything.

ArtOfCode

ah, docking stations

quartata

Back when I had a Mac a decade ago I actually used KDE on it

I was seriously messed up

ArtOfCode

/r/talesfromtechsupport has plenty of hatred on those things

Undo

store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/…

Good little piece of hardware, really. Just bad software.

NobodyNada

23:55

@quartata ...whaaat?

TajyMany

I just found out why it wasn't working nicely. I was using an older model in the sample file

@Undo use linux

NobodyNada

As in, you were running a distro of Linux that had KDE, or you had somehow jury-rigged OS X to run KDE?

ArtOfCode

@TajyMany good luck making ASP.NET stuff on that

Undo

@TajyMany Ever worked in a managed enterprise environment?

(actually, it's supported, but more hoops to jump through)

TajyMany

IBM allows Macs, just use Linux for development. skip windows

Undo

23:57

That'd be nice

ArtOfCode

Nah, Windows has its good bits

it also has its very terrible bits

Undo

Although there are some nice things you get from Windows, I'd prefer to have a Mac.

quartata

@NobodyNada Nope, KDE on OS X

Undo

@ArtOfCode docking is one of those terrible bits :P

quartata

It wasn't anything crazy, just full screen XQuartz and a metric ton of AppleScripts

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