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2:14 AM

Given the topic, I'm not sure if it's good or bad

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John K. N.

6:18 AM

morning

Wordle 710 4/6*

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@ErikDarling true. Well for those in downtown Minneapolis.

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6:35 AM

Morning

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12:33 PM

@mustaccio Canada is doing euthanasia for everyone... imagine being a hurt animal there :X

12:54 PM

I don't even need to imagine this -- I am in Canada, after all

1:09 PM

red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/sql-server/…

1:23 PM

@mustaccio I didn't realize!

Lamak

1:38 PM

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@mustaccio i always thought you lived somewhere weird, like malta.

if anyone wouldn't mind throwing a dupe close vote on this one: dba.stackexchange.com/q/327669/32281

John K. N.

That was @gbn before he came to Switzerland.

is that why he left chat?

John K. N.

Pro'ly

well it's nice to have hobbies

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3:45 PM

Seems like they updated the upvote / downvote buttons, visually.

Apparently, all the more important site problems have been already solved

Heh yea. I think the new look is a little silly.

Peter Vandivier

sometimes i feel bad for keeping binaries in a repo, other times i see PRs like this and feel even worse 😭 github.com/microsoft/pgtoolsservice/pull/295/files

1 hour later…

Q: We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows

5:06 PM

-162

Update This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network. About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general experience, conducted an experiment to update the styling of the voting arrows on Stack Overflow in order...

Going well, as usual

upgraded button experience ✅

@rob it's the mentality of changing things for the sake of changing them (see "seagull management"). Not to mention the lame excuses for metrics. "Hey guys, our research indicates that 42% more elevator floor buttons get pushed if we remove the labels so it's not obvious which one is your floor. So we're rolling out this change across all elevators. You're welcome. No, we can't put the labels back on - what if a blind person can't read them?" — user253751 May 22 at 21:26

😀

Just one more bizarre moment in SO history, I guess

I thought he was talking about MS for a minute

Really hard to distinguish anymore

What is graduating an updated button styling? — Quasímodo May 22 at 17:26

Every endeavour these days seems to come with its own terminology

5:19 PM

George Carlin would have a field day with this phrasing

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of counterculture comedians". He was known for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects. His "seven dirty words" routine was central to the 1978 United States Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to censor indecent material on publ...

George Carlin on soft language

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> This experiment has been graduated.

> graduate
> verb
> 2 [with object] arrange in a series or according to a scale

Writing comprehension being what it is these days...

I think if they'll change the voting buttons to take 80% of the screen, it will increase the voting by 60% at least.

1 hour later…

6:42 PM

to get the most upvotes you need to quote the documentation

I should go around adding an upvote and then removing it so I can say I voted 42% more.

just find answers of mine you haven't upvoted yet

then everyone can be happy

everyone important anyway

@SeanGallardy essentially voted twice then...

especially the strippers

@J.D. think of all that % increase!

Q: Disable ALL indexes on a table in SQL Server without Warning messages

6:48 PM

Occasionally we need to perform bulk updates on certain tables and the indexes that help the database perform smoothly in normal use become a hindrance. So we disable all the indexes on such a table, perform the update and then re-enable them afterward. To disable all the indexes on a table "x" w...

sql-server t-sql

what a truly odd question

why disable the clustered index just to rebuild it

i hate it

I had a comment to add, but decided to refrain.

first time for everything

"I would like to not get warnings on things that I should be warned about"

1 hour later…

8:13 PM

Like leaving unnecessary commentary

8:29 PM

as a member of the peanut gallery, my commentary is amazing

9:04 PM

Thankfully not allergic to peanuts

9:22 PM

I am

That's unfortunate. Reese's is like the best Halloween candy.

> You haven't voted on questions in a while; questions need votes too!

big brother watching me

it might be nice to upvote some of the questions that you answer

I haven't answered many, they at least aren't marked as answered lol

also most of those questions aren't great

9:40 PM

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good enough for you to take the time to answer

i don't care that much, just a thought to get the nag to go away

Cade Roux

10:00 PM

@ErikDarling Lol, that user name - Frank Zappa fan? I had that song come up on a playlist on the stroller speaker as we were walking out the park one time and I almost had to turn it off, when I realized what it was. Baby too young to know anything, of course.

That's such a weird question.

i never listened to frank zappa much

Cade Roux

10:18 PM

It's a graphic depiction of sex event

Over-Nite Sensation

Over-Nite Sensation is the ninth studio album by The Mothers of Invention (credited as The Mothers), and the seventeenth album overall by Frank Zappa, released in September 1973. It was Zappa's first album released on his DiscReet label. His solo album Apostrophe (') (1974) was recorded during the same sessions for Over-Nite Sensation. == Recording == Frank Zappa wanted to use backup singers on the songs "I'm the Slime", "Dirty Love", "Zomby Woof", "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana". His road manager suggested The Ikettes, and Ike & Tina Turner were contacted. Ike Turner insisted that Zappa pay the...

"Much of the album's lyrics deal with sex.[1][3] For example, "Dinah-Moe Humm" describes a woman who wagers that the narrator can't give her an orgasm and is ultimately aroused by watching him have sex with her sister."