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8:02 PM
It takes a lot of self control not to comment "nice" under a 69 byte answer in the review queues :p
 
8:17 PM
Weird...I repcapped on meta hours ago, but it still shows +170 in the achievements dropdown
 
Yeah, this still hasn't been properly fixed
It’s quite possible that those were dropped on the floor; I’m out for a few days now but somebody else on the team will continue digging here to see what’s up — Dean Ward ♦ 3 hours ago
 
Seriously, TeX has TRO but JS and Python don't? >:|
 
@RedwolfPrograms If it's a suggested edit, reject it saying "Nice" instead :P
 
@egreg Hate to be a nitpicker, but this infinite loop will not lead to a stack overflow, as TeX’s macro expansion routines handle tail recursion gracefully. You’d need something like \def\recurse{\recurse x}\recurse. — Emil Jeřábek 7 hours ago
 
@user Nah, I think it's a Late Answer review :P
 
8:22 PM
You can still write a custom message for those, right? =]
 
As a comment :P
 
Oh well ×D
 
I like lowercase "xd" because if you know what it means it's obvious, but otherwise it's "I licked my eyes and now they hurt"
 
The Pronoun Helper userscript expands names, for some reason, so now there's extra space after each one of caird's messages 8{
 
Imagine not having a long name and stated pronouns :P
 
8:25 PM
@RedwolfPrograms Are you a human or a frog?
 
Well, I used to be a human but I'm cursed and I need to kiss a princess or something
 
Those stories never made any sense to me - anyone willing to kiss a literal frog must be out of their minds
 
@user Huh, how does it know someone's pronouns?
 
It takes them from your profile
 
My profile states my pronouns?
 
8:27 PM
It has a specific list of pronouns to look for, including he, she, they, ze, etc.
 
No, if you include your pronouns, then it displays them
Otherwise, it doesn't show anything
 
@Adám Not your chat profile
 
Glorfindel has "Pronouns: Script successfully installed" if you ever need to double check that it's active btw
 
lol
 
@user Can you screenshot mine?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing So, should I refer to Script successfully installed as "Script succesfully installed"? xD
@Adám It's just your name, no pronouns. Gimme a minute
 
@user You could, but IIRC he just uses he/him normally :P
 
 
It always throws me off when someone posts a screenshot and their messages are green instead of mine :p
 
@user How does it know your pronouns?
 
8:31 PM
It always throws me off when someone posts a screenshot and they're green instead of me
 
@Adám See user's chat profile
 
Wait, so does it simply look for \w+/\w+/\w+ in "about"?
 
idk the exact format, but if you just write "he/him" or whatever somewhere inside it, I think it should detect that
@Adám No, it has a list
 
@user Who decides which pronouns are valid?
 
8:33 PM
It scrapes your chat and parent site profiles (and when you're on the main sites, it looks at your profile for that site) to find either "My pronouns are X/Y/Z", "Pronouns: X/Y/Z" or commonly used ones (he/she/they/ze/xe IIRC) and then shows them
 
@Adám Actually, kinda
 
If you use pronouns aside from those 5 and you want the script to pick up on them, you should explicitly state "my pronouns are X/Y/Z"
 
"her?" // that covers 'he' as well...is this secretly a regex golf competition? :p
 
@user Looks like it wouldn't catch pronouns are
 
8:35 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's case insensitive, actually, I think (see the i)
 
I have "you can use he/she/they pronouns" and "I typically go by any traditional pronouns (he/she/they)", and it picks them up, so it's pretty good
 
Interesting, it has he/she in "unlikely combinations", thought it wouldn't detect those
 
Maybe it looks for whitespace around those
 
And the word "pronouns" maybe
 
Wonder what it would make of "my pronouns are not important"
 
8:37 PM
Regex is black magic imo, I prefer gregular expressions Xd
@Adám Gimme a minute to try that
 
@Adám There's a specific user I see on MM who shows "I don't mind, use whatever pronouns you would for yourself"
Or something similar, I'm looking for them :/
 
@Adám It doesn't show anything under my name now, idk if it's detected at all :/
 
@user Too bad. It should really say "not important"
 
@Adám If you really want that, then do Pronouns: not important
It's regex-based, it's never going to fully handle English text :P
 
8:41 PM
Huh, I would have thought that : and are and is would be equivalent.
 
Heh, I'd use APL: pronouns←'he' 'him' 'his'
 
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Q: Pronoun Assistant

Glorfindel Screenshot / Code Snippet About It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third person. This most often comes up in chat, and some users already have information about which...

@Adám I wonder whether that would work tbh :P
 
It really should trim pronouns in case someone accidentally causes their pronoun to be set to something like Pronouns: they/them but you can call me whatever you want lol i dont care if they don't use punctuation properly
 
Oh god, that makes chat awful :/
 
8:43 PM
Don't worry, I'm changing it
 
Pronoun Island's full list has a couple that could be a fun parsing error if included: "I like using vi/vim" would show "vi/vim" as your pronouns :P
 
Personally, my religion/culture/ethnicity is much more significant to me than my gender, and while I don't mind people getting my gender wrong, I would mind getting my religion/culture/ethnicity wrong. Pronouns: the Jew
 
lol
 
> hu
 
@Adám Normally, I'd use your name instead of "the Jew" as it's shorter, but the latter is easier to type, so it's a toss-up :P
@Adám ???
 
8:45 PM
"hu" means "him" in Hebrew.
 
Ah
 
I like that it still blues mod pronouns and italics RO pronouns :P
 
But then again, "he" (pronounced as in English: hee) means "she" in Hebrew.
 
@Adám IIRC isn't "he" in Hebrew the feminine pronoun?
 
I wish pronouns didn't carry gender and there was a single person pronoun less ambiguous than "they"
 
8:46 PM
Ninja'd :P
@user The Dark Lord
Everyone should be referred to as The Dark Lord and leave it at that :P
 
But Lords are male :/
^ Which is another thing I dislike
 
In Finland, they don't have this current debacle at all. Finnish only has one pronoun.
 
The Supreme Being then :P
 
Why bother having genders for nouns and pronouns (and verbs, depending on the language)?
@Adám Nice, if only Finland wasn't imaginary
 
@user ?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing "No binarix"?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing oxymoron?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing That must be deeply offensive to the Finns.
 
I had a friend named Finn, never found it offensive at all /s
 
8:50 PM
@Adám Not being Finnish, I can't speak to that. But, if someone made a joke that England didn't exist and was actually Eastern Wales, I wouldn't find it offensive, I'd just laugh and leave it
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Finland used to be subjugated to Sweden and Russia.
 
Again, not being Finnish, I can't speak to how people would find it. Just offering my own opinion on a (roughly) similar example
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'd be more similar to saying that Wales doesn't exist as it is just western England.
Or worse: Ireland doesn't…
 
Don't open that can of worms :P
Clearly we should just merge all landmass back into Pangea and dissolve all countries
 
Changing the subject, the two meanings given here have nothing to do with nonbinary people:
1. not relating to, composed of, or involving just two things.
"Aristotelian ontology is nonbinary on the second level in that it allows for degrees of being"
2. relating to, using, or denoting a system of numerical notation that does not have 2 as a base.
"the enumeration data is stored in a nonbinary format"
 
8:53 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing But it is really that bad, or worse even, regarding Finland being Swedish.
 
That's probably why the Spanish translation carries gender
 
@Adám I have no idea - I'm not Finnish
 
I'm telling you.
 
I didn't make the joke - I just linked it to you
 
I apologize, I didn't know that it would strike a nerve for Finns - I'll stop making Finland jokes
 
8:55 PM
You can be plural. Ugh, English pronouns are messed up.
 
I can? :P
 
You can be anything you want to be :P
 
@user I think it is fine to make Finland jokes, just not about Finland being Swedish. That's a sensitive topic.
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing That's what I told the judge, but he kept spouting random stuff about identity theft being illegal
 
There are a few such pairings to watch out for. Do not call a Palestinian "Israeli" (unless you know that they are).
 
8:56 PM
@Adám Yeah, I meant the "Finland's imaginary" jokes. Not sure there's any more about Finland
 
@Adám I can't imagine that anyone doesn't know that they shouldn't do that (but I'm sure I'd be surprised ಠ_ಠ)
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Never underestimate people
 
^ It's the internet.
 
I mean, even in real life, there'll be people who, out of ignorance (like yours truly) (and sometimes out of spite), will say stuff like that
 
TBH if there is one thing that no longer surprises me anymore, it's the stupidity of people and masks
 
8:59 PM
That's why I just refer to people as "individual". But then the conjoined twins get mad at me. :/
 
lol
@cairdcoinheringaahing The stupidity of masks? What did they do to you?
 
@AaronMiller At least, it should be safe to say "they" to conjoined twins.
 
I could see someone walk into a shop with masks on their hands as gloves, gargling hand sanitiser and chucking bars of soap at puppies, and my response would be "Ok, sure, fine, whatever" and then to avoid them
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s/could/did
 
Not quite that bad :P
 
9:01 PM
While masks were required in England, I had a store clerk tell me I could take off my mask.
 
Its the people who still wear masks after "Freedom Day" but wear them under their noses that confuse me
@Adám I had that, but only when getting id'd for buying alcohol
 
It wasn't a situation like that at all.
The reason was that the police wasn't around at the moment.
The store had a prominent sign at the entrance saying "we ask out costumers to wear masks".
So on my way out, I tore down the sign, and when people stared at me, I said "it's a lie!".
 
@Adám If you were robbing the store, it's impolite to wear a ski mask and obscure your face so the police can't catch you /s
@Adám Okay, that doesn't sound like a good idea
 
@Adám Drawing attention to yourself in public, rather than silently getting annoyed? How very un-British of you :P
 
@user What were they gonna do‽ Call the police‽
 
9:05 PM
Just because one store clerk was dumb enough to say that doesn't mean the store is fine with it
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm not British.
 
@Adám Fair enough :P
 
@Adám No, I mean that because of that sign not being there, you might have maskless people going into that store afterwards
 
@user Oh, there were plenty of other signs at the entrance stating the requirement. I only tore down the one that claimed they ask people to weark masks.
 
Ah
Still sounds a bit out of proportion but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
9:06 PM
@user From my experience, signs at shop doors don't make people put on masks. Either they already know and will wear one, or they're never going to wear one at all
 
(But not a single person, but me, was wearing a mask in the store.)
 
I'm the only one in my family who wears a mask anymore, despite my sister not being vaccinated
 
@user I don't know what else I could do. I called and wrote the police multiple times, I spoke to police officers in the street, I spoke and wrote to borough councillors, including those in charge of community contact and COVID-19…
 
I ignore everyone else on the street (aka social distance), always wear a mask and wait for my second jab
 
@RedwolfPrograms Heh, my wife has only worn a mask once since the first lockdown and until now – the one time she left our home during this entire period. And that was to go get her first vaccine shot.
 
9:10 PM
I can't trust other people to be safe, so I have to do it myself
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing London pavements (side walks) are too narrow to avoid others.
 
That;s why you always carry a hula hoop with you :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing A 4 metre in diameter hula hoop?
 
Only 2 meters, right?
 
@Adám It takes a lot of practice :P
 
9:12 PM
@RedwolfPrograms that'd be the radius.
… unless you're swirling it.
 
@Adám No, it'd be the diameter. You can't hula hoop in the center of a hula hoop.
 
you might not be able to
 
¯\_((⍨))_/¯
 
Yeah, do you not have a magnetic field around you that holds it in place?
 
When I was little, some trains in Denmark still had 6-person coupés next to a long corridor, instead of today's open floor plan. My father taught me to, at every station, turn off the lights and scratch myself all over, to avoid additional people joining "our" coupé.
Itzhak Stern, the accountant, does something similar in Schindler's List.
 
9:23 PM
@RedwolfPrograms I have made a carefully annotated diagram
 
@RedwolfPrograms You must be very skinny.
 
Diagram is not to scale :p
 
Even so. If you're supposed to stay 2 metres away from people at all times, and the hoop is 2 metres in diameter, you must be 0 metres in diameter.
 
But the assumption is that people will leave a foot or so around the hula hoop as a cushion to not get hit
And I'd consider the 2M radius to be around your face, not necessarily your perimeter, but idk :p
 
I wonder what would happen if I tried using a hula hoop on the Tube.
 
9:30 PM
Lots of dirty looks :P
I think you'd only be able to do it in the door areas of the trains, so I'd guess you'd have someone walk into it and stop it almost immediately
 
@Adám or a Scot 'British', or even worse, 'English'!
 
10:00 PM
@Adám You can attach it to yourself with a couple plastic bars that connect to a belt or something, although it might get heavy
 
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Q: What would be the preferred way to show data in spreadsheet cells?

AxuaryWhich would be the preferred format for answers involving data in spreadsheets, a table or a picture? Below is an example based on one of my answers. Table A B 1 8 10 2 3 4 10 4 5 2 22 6 7 1 7 8 2 6 9 2 7 10 11 1 24 12 13 0 26 14 15 0 26 16 ...

 
That way, you won't have to hula (is that the verb?), but there's probably easier ways :P
@NewPosts ngl, I thought this was some ridiculously off-topic question at first
 
same lol
 
Same.
 
@Adám I have to ask: why do you end your messages in periods even when they're sentence fragments? Is it out of habit or because of grammar? (although afaict "Same." or "Yes." aren't grammatically correct)
(I used to end all my messages with periods myself, but I don't do it anymore and it feels weird to put a period now. idk my own logic from before)
 
10:07 PM
@user It is automatic. (And sentence fragments are certainly correct English.)
 
Ah, I wasn't aware of that
 
Otherwise it'd be wrong to ever answer a yes/no question!
 
Well, it'd be wrong to pretend it's a sentence then
"Yes." vs. "Yes" or "Yes, I do indeed support doing that to people who put pineapple on their pizza."
 
10:40 PM
@user Presumably "that" is "give them pizza with pineapple on"?
 
10:58 PM
CMC: Sum of the first n powers of 2, starting with 1, 2, 4, 8, etc.
 
K: {2/x#1}
J: 2&^-#
 
Vyxal, s, 2 bytes: range(0, n), 2**n [vectorises]
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing What, and support their satanic acts?
 
@user Freedom of pizza man, it's in the first amendment :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Python, lambda n:2**(n+1)-1? idk math
@cairdcoinheringaahing Then I'll move to the UK and resume my vigilantism there :P
I do hope y'all don't have that in your Constitution?
 
11:02 PM
@lyxal ʁE
 
@user We don't have a constitution :P
 
Oh right, you have an undying dictator the Queen :P
 
Imagine having a constitution turns out we do have one
 
English law is actually kinda interesting tbh :P
We're such an old country that we operate on common law a lot (aka "what everyone understands to be bad"), as well as any and all laws passed by Parliment/the Monarchy
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Not sure if optimal, but Jelly, 3 bytes: Range, Sign, Frombase2
 
11:06 PM
That's 4 bytes
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'd say England's constitution looks pretty weak :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing hehe we forked your common law onto our own branch over here :p
 
How? Isn't it RṠḄ?
 
@Bubbler Fun fact, 1€Ḅ would also work :P
...right, unbinary, that's a thing
 
@lyxal Gonna be a lot of merge conflicts if Australia becomes Britain again
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, 3 bytes: 2*’
 
11:09 PM
@user we tried becoming our own repository once in the 1900s, but we decided to remain a fork of Britain
 
Which org, though?
 
Commonwealth
 
×D
@user Correction: lambda n:2**n-1
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing vyxal, 2 bytes: Try it Online!
E‹
 
Oh wait, Jelly has an E-like builtin too
 
11:13 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing APL: +/2*⍳ or 2+.*⍳
 
@user nvm, ² is square
 
11:27 PM
Yeah, Jelly doesn't have a built-in for 2^x
 
11:53 PM
That's crazy: I raised a custom mod flag on MSE for a status retag 2 days ago that's still pending. Since then, I've had 10 "Recommend Closure" flags marked helpful. I guess MSE has quite a backlog of mod flags
I wonder what the longest a flag has ever gone unhandled on the network
 
Is that data recorded?
 
Probably, but you'd likely need a diamond on every site to have access to it
 
Makes bots to increase activity of every site on the network so more moderators are needed, then stands in moderator election and uses more bots to vote for myself
 
Might just be easier to get hired by SE :P
I doubt it'd be on SO. They always have a bunch of pending flags, but they go through flags faster than any other site
Windows Phone might be a contender :P
 
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