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Optimizer
Optimizer
18:00
stop calling it a disease u zombie-phobic!!
god made them that way
Dennis
Dennis
Hey, I used written air quotes.
βετѧ Λєҫαγ
βετѧ Λєҫαγ
Zombies are caused by a nanobot infection
Like the Borg
Business Cat
Business Cat
"written air quotes"?
Dennis
Dennis
sallyhanan.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/writing-air-quotes
primo
primo
@Dennis Rabies s/irrational fear of water/insatiable thirst for blood/
presto, zombie virus
Dennis
Dennis
18:08
More like vampire virus.
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Dennis Aren't those just plain quotes?
Business Cat
Business Cat
That's the joke.
TimmyD
TimmyD
Suggest migration to cooking.stackexchange.com. — Jason C 20 hours ago
Downgoat
Downgoat
@Dennis if you're a goat answer is to use your mouth
TimmyD
TimmyD
Hah!
Business Cat
Business Cat
18:11
I thought goats don't eat meat
Only tin cans
Dennis
Dennis
Curious how in a discussion of zombiism and the consumption of the infecteds' flesh, the quotes are the part that gets everyone's attention.
Downgoat
Downgoat
@BusinessCat <disapproval face>
Leaky Nun
Leaky Nun
@DJMcMayhem Are you posting that challenge?
Business Cat
Business Cat
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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hai
Jonathan Allan
Jonathan Allan
18:12
context-wise I don't think Dennis was actually quoting somebody, so therefore they were air quotes
Geobits
Geobits
@Dennis I'd say it's more "curious" than curious.
Downgoat
Downgoat
How do u think hay as goat currency originated?
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Dennis We're programmers. Proper syntax is critical.
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
Woooo StackOverflow mobile site has monospace text now
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
@DJMcMayhem portal 2?
Dennis
Dennis
18:15
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei Great, now I can't read Jelly answers anymore...
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
Oh thank goodness. The dickbutt thing is over. I still don't who did it, how it happened, and how to prevent the next dumb thing, though @_@
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
@Sherlock9 :/ my internet has the same problems. Reddit apparently doesn't use a "supported certificate issuer" 1/5 the times I try.
> ಠ_ಠ
ғᴛғʏ
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
Nope
Was going for a heavily-stressed out face
Leaky Nun
Leaky Nun
@Sherlock9 Will you post a challenge for me?
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
Sure. What have you got?
Leaky Nun
Leaky Nun
18:16
@Sherlock9 Ugh, I mean, will you create a challenge for me
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
lol
Downgoat
Downgoat
@Sherlock9 "dickbutt thing" wat
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
45 mins ago, by Sherlock9
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Downgoat
Downgoat
@Sherlock9 wat
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
Somebody messed with my Internet, stripped the CSS, changed the "a"s to "z"s and "the"s to "dickbutt"s
9
For about an hour
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
18:19
Lol
Downgoat
Downgoat
Why to https 101
Very surprised SE doesnt auto switch to https
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
@LeakyNun which one?
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ work
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Wooooo @DJMcMayhem changed pic
Downgoat
Downgoat
@DJMcMayhem ಠ_ಠ y r u on tnb and not working
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
@Downgoat because people keep pinging me. :P
Downgoat
Downgoat
18:24
Solution doable notifiCations
*disabke
Geobits
Geobits
@Downgoat hahahahahaha
hahahaha
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
@LeakyNun I'm a little frazzled by everything that happened today (dickbutt is just the most recent thing) but let me see what I can do
Geobits
Geobits
ha
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
What would happen if you tried to put Javascript in a markdown link? Like [link](javascript:document.body.innerHTML="")
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
[like that?](javascript:document.body.innerHTML="")
Downgoat
Downgoat
18:26
@Geobits ಠ_ಠ
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Apparently it doesn't work. :(
Geobits
Geobits
@Downgoat Just sayin :P
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
👨‍❤‍👨⬅one character 17 bytes
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
test Don't click this
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
👨‍❤‍💋‍👨⬅one character 24 bytes
Poke
Poke
18:33
@Downgoat I think I've mentioned this twice in here before
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei The first shows up as 3 characters for me; the second shows up as 4
Business Cat
Business Cat
Me too
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanTheMan Try to select it.
Poke
Poke
If I could figure out how to use chat search I'd find the messages
Business Cat
Business Cat
I can highlight 4 distinct characters
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
18:35
@Poke What about the TNBDE? :P
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
@DanTheMan depends on font, but it really is one character
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@BusinessCat Weird, it's one character for me.
Poke
Poke
@El'endiaStarman the who what now
Aug 9 at 13:39, by Poke
why don't we have https redirection
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
It's because of Microsoft and their incomplete emoji support I think.
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
@DJMcMayhem :/ have fun success?
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
18:36
@El'endiaStarman true, you can't select distinct emojis. You can select the whole thing
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@DanTheMan I'm on windows and I can only select it as 1 character
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
I'm on Firefox on Windows 8.1. You?
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
chrome windows 10
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Chrome Win10 here too.
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ it's too bad you can't play during the evenings and I can't play during the day... :\
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
18:38
ye
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Chrome on Android 6, actually on Chrome they're distinct emojis but on keyboard it's a single character
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
@DJMcMayhem one of these times I'm staying up until 12am to play
>_>
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
woah, it appears way different on firefox
like, three little heads in a flower shape
Business Cat
Business Cat
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I do that all the time
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
ye
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
18:39
@NathanMerrill What?
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
user image
Business Cat
Business Cat
Even though I have to get up early the next day...
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
user image
How it looks on Google keyboard
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
user image
chrome ^
Sherlock9
Sherlock9
Firefox, Windows 10
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
18:41
@NathanMerrill Dat URL.
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
lol
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Poke ppcg.starmaninnovations.com/tnbde/#aBFFkfRYim
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
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Poke
Poke
wowsers who made this
TimmyD
TimmyD
user image
IE11 Win8.1
flawr
flawr
18:43
Is a cat male or female? (if you do not know it's actual sex)
Conor O'Brien
Conor O'Brien
@Dennis I have a J question. I'm working on some exercises, and one of the exercises is to find the Nth mersenne prime. Is there a general form to find the nth member in a sequence? I'm hoping that there exists some form for, say, a verb C that gives 1 for containing a member, and 0 otherwise, getting the Nth natural number satisfying C (that is, yielding 1)
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
I think this goes to prove that emoji is actually not a universal language
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@flawr Neither?
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@TimmyD This is what I see too.
flawr
flawr
@DanTheMan So when you talk about a cat you just saw, you talk abut it?
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
18:43
@Poke Only the very best.
Business Cat
Business Cat
I generally refer to animals as "it" if I don't know its sex
flawr
flawr
(and not her*/*him?)
Poke
Poke
@El'endiaStarman Can we put this up by the search box? This appears to be way more helpful than normal search
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@flawr Yes, why?
Business Cat
Business Cat
@El'endiaStarman Like no one ever was
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
18:44
@flawr generally considered to be male, but for the most part female cats are more common
Poke
Poke
maybe in the chat topic near the link to chatiquette
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@El'endiaStarman you can totally do it too! You're a room owner
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Lel my language doesn't have gender-specific pronouns
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Animals of unknown gender are commonly referred to with "it". Doing the same for humans is not advised. :P
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei What language?
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
18:45
@DanTheMan Turkish
@DanTheMan he, she and it are "o"
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@NathanMerrill I could, but I'd rather not. It's even less official than the Chatiquette. :P
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei That's really cool!
At least English has singular they.
Business Cat
Business Cat
Japanese is ever better. The subject of the sentence is very often omitted and left to be determined by context.
flawr
flawr
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Are female cats really more common?
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
yeah
in my experience though
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
18:46
@BusinessCat same in Turkish. We use o if we really need to.
flawr
flawr
That's perhaps why on reddit most people seem to have female cats.
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@BusinessCat To parse them is my test
To query is my cause...
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Example: "Baksana." = "Look at."
flawr
flawr
It's just confusing. In my native language cats and suns are female, while dogs and moons are male=)
@BusinessCat Omg.
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
1 min ago, by Releasing Helium Nuclei
@BusinessCat same in Turkish. We use o if we really need to.
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
18:48
♪ I will trawl across the chat // Searching far behind // Each message to understand // The data that's inside! ♪
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Duh
Business Cat
Business Cat
And I think even if you do include the subject, you typically use the person's name instead of a pronoun
flawr
flawr
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei What is o?
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@El'endiaStarman is it still considered nerd sniping if its about pop culture?
Business Cat
Business Cat
Even when talking in the 2nd person
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
18:49
4 mins ago, by Releasing Helium Nuclei
@DanTheMan he, she and it are "o"
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@NathanMerrill It's definitely something similar, isn't it? :P
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@NathanMerrill Then it's geek sniping
(just made that up)
flawr
flawr
Why sniping? I'm more of a close combat type.
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
^
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
@BusinessCat we have suffixes that specify first second and third persons
Business Cat
Business Cat
18:50
Turkish is weird
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
We rarely use pronouns
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@flawr Probably due to Randall Munroe.
I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.
flawr
flawr
@El'endiaStarman yeah, I still wonder what the resistance is.
(well not really wha tit is, but more like how you actaully get there.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Corresponding explain xkcd
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> wha tit
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
18:51
IIRC there's a huge thread in the xkcd forums trying to solve this exact problem. :P
@DanTheMan Oh, and of course pi shows up. Makes perfect sense. :P
Business Cat
Business Cat
you mean tau/2
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
inb4 tau is better 2/tau
Shit ninja'd
Business Cat
Business Cat
^
I'm joking though, pi is better
PyRulez
PyRulez
tau is greater than pi though
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
@PyRulez only on number line
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
18:54
Oh no, let's please not have a pi vs tau war in here again...
PyRulez
PyRulez
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Business Cat
Business Cat
^ End of discussion
TùxCräftîñg
TùxCräftîñg
Til I am a active user on so
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Pi vs. Tau poll
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
@DanTheMan no pau ಠ_ಠ
PyRulez
PyRulez
18:56
You forgot pau man.
TùxCräftîñg
TùxCräftîñg
/\
PyRulez
PyRulez
man which is dan
flawr
flawr
@El'endiaStarman Too many of those dirty integrals involved.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Sorry.
PyRulez
PyRulez
strawpoll.me/11117636
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
18:57
@PyRulez I selected all of them.
Maltysen
Maltysen
but pau should really be sqrt(2)*pi
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
How about pi*tau/e?
PyRulez
PyRulez
Geometric mean
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Is the "This sentence is wrong." sentence true?
@DanTheMan e^i*pi
flawr
flawr
Aug 10 at 22:22, by flawr
Please include the title of the poll when posting a link.
PyRulez
PyRulez
19:00
I remember on G+ after polls came out, I asked "Is the answer to this poll no?" 100 people voted yes.
Releasing Helium Nuclei
Releasing Helium Nuclei
@flawr done
flawr
flawr
thx
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Business Cat
Business Cat
user image
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Wolfram Alpha casts its vote
PyRulez
PyRulez
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=circle+constant
feersum
feersum
19:11
Tau vs. chunky peanut butter vs. emacs
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
hm
idk
Business Cat
Business Cat
@feersum y u do dis
flawr
flawr
@feersum Answer: e, peanutbutter is gross, notepad++
@feersum in one word: you're wrong
feersum
feersum
Me? I didn't vote for any of those.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
PPCG definitely has their starring priorities straight
4
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
19:15
lol both C&H and conor's name changes are on there.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
I like how "okay seriously stop abusing stars" is above PPCG's graduation announcement.
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
^
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
A "chart" of our daily activity since Jan 1, 2015.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
What happened on 2016-08-27?
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanTheMan Probably something to do with ColdGolf. Lemme see.
Business Cat
Business Cat
19:24
Woo! What If? has 100% commitment!
Maltysen
Maltysen
@BusinessCat \o/
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanTheMan Really, I don't know. Maybe chat was just especially busy that day.
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@DanTheMan general chatter + deep dreams
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Releasing Helium Nuclei
@El'endiaStarman 27th wtf
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@NathanMerrill Ohhh yeah, it's probably mostly because of the deep dreams. They kept everybody talking.
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
19:27
^
TimmyD
TimmyD
@DanTheMan Poor quartata
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
These were the chattiest people on Aug 27, 2016.
Geobits
Geobits
Was the 27th significant in some way I don't know?
Oh, nvm
Business Cat
Business Cat
Aug 27 at 0:33, by Adnan
We should all change our avatars to trippy lsd images
All his doing
Maltysen
Maltysen
well, I guess its time to chagne it back
Geobits
Geobits
19:30
Probably. I hear anyone who hasn't changed back by the 1st is going to be permanently banned.
Business Cat
Business Cat
I'm willing to take that gamble
3
Maltysen
Maltysen
why is area 51 separate from SE?
Geobits
Geobits
@BusinessCat Good, good. Any theory requires testing :P
Maltysen
Maltysen
I was the 199/200th committer. lel
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
on where?
Maltysen
Maltysen
19:34
what-if
I thought I had committed months ago,, but I must have forgotten to actually commit >_>
feersum
feersum
What if? Seems like duplicate of world building.
Business Cat
Business Cat
Apparently they hate What if? questions on Worldbuilding
feersum
feersum
;_;
Business Cat
Business Cat
They would become off-topic there
Maltysen
Maltysen
I really hope randall joins
i heard someone emailed him
Geobits
Geobits
19:37
@BusinessCat So the site would collapse then?
Business Cat
Business Cat
Well there's a difference between "what would happen if" and "how can I reasonably explain this"
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
17
Q: RfC sent to what-if.xkcd.com

nitsua60Proposal: What if(hypotheticals) Questions sent along to what-if: Ca. 1 March 2016 I sent the following message along to the contact address one can find at what-if. I'll post any reply I get. Hello- There’s recently been proposed at StackExchange a “WhatIf” site. I’d like to ask you a...

technology culture science
Business Cat
Business Cat
The latter is more what Worldbuilding is I think
Geobits
Geobits
@BusinessCat "How can I reasonably explain this" sound terribly vague and broad to me.
But it seems like the entire [science-based] and [reality-check] tags.
Maltysen
Maltysen
@mınxomaτ are you associated with randall somehow or something?
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
19:40
With POSIX regex, how can one select either something of the form <.*> or spaces? I currently have [(<.*>)|\s]+, but it's not quite working.
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@Maltysen Yes. nitsua, the other WhatIf folks and me discussed this further in private.
TimmyD
TimmyD
TIL Minxomat is Randall from xkcd.
Geobits
Geobits
What a minx
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
2/10
Maltysen
Maltysen
@mınxomaτ may I ask how you are involved with xkcd? Just curious cuz it seems cool
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
19:43
@Maltysen Translations mainly. But only WhatIf, not xkcd. There are a few people working on it.
Maltysen
Maltysen
whoa that's awesome
Dennis
Dennis
@ConorO'Brien No clue, sorry. I think you have more experience with J than I by now.
Why do IE and Safari have no support for WOFF2 by now? ಠ_ಠ
Business Cat
Business Cat
Because they are awful browsers
Dennis
Dennis
That would certainly explain it. (Never used Safari, so I can't tell.)
Business Cat
Business Cat
It's on Mac, so terrible by extension
Dennis
Dennis
19:50
Never used a Mac either.
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ
@BusinessCat ಠ_ಠ
ಠ_ಠ
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Dennis Isn't WOFF2 not a hard-and-fast specification yet? Meaning, isn't it still in development?
Dennis
Dennis
@TimmyD Not sure, but it works just fine with Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and the default Android browsers.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
WOFF2?
Dennis
Dennis
Web Open Font Format
The Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a font format for use in web pages. It was developed during 2009 and is now a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation. WOFF is essentially OpenType or TrueType with compression and additional metadata. The goal is to support font distribution from a server to a client over a network with bandwidth constraints. == Submission as a standard == The WOFF specification was written by Jonathan Kew, Tal Leming, and Erik van Blokland, with reference conversion code written by Jonathan Kew. Following the submission of WOFF by the Mozilla Foundation, Opera Software...
Geobits
Geobits
19:52
So it's not World of Final Fantasy 2? :(
Downgoat
Downgoat
@BusinessCat ....
Dennis
Dennis
WOFF doesn't actually beat a gzipped TTF (but has better support), but WOFF2 is usually 30% shorter.
Downgoat
Downgoat
safari has fastest JS engine
Geobits
Geobits
Fastest js != best browser
Dennis
Dennis
@Downgoat The fastest snail is still slow. If it requires CPU time, don't do it in JS.
Downgoat
Downgoat
19:54
@Geobits it is fully ES6 compliant unlike chromes
Geobits
Geobits
@Downgoat I've never seen a site where that caused issues except when people are golfing tbh.
Dennis
Dennis
^
I rarely caret, but that deserved one.
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
Top starred messages today
Geobits
Geobits
Yay, I get a Dennis caret :D
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Dennis I wouldn't suspect Microsoft to invest in R&D for Internet Explorer, especially not for a proposed standard.
Downgoat
Downgoat
19:56
@Geobits ok well y is safari so bad :/
Geobits
Geobits
@TimmyD Yeah, they'd only do that for the bleeding Edge stuff >_>
DanTheMan
DanTheMan
@Geobits Was that a pun?
TimmyD
TimmyD
Geobits? Making a pun? Never happens.
Geobits
Geobits
@Downgoat I didn't say it was? All I said was that there are other things beside js engine speed that matter.
I haven't used safari in years, because Mac is so bad.
Downgoat
Downgoat
Shit I meant to ping buisness cat not you
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
19:59
That singular "i" in the third row here is really annoying me, and I can't figure out how to tweak the regex so it's not there.
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