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7:02 AM
@Kepotx 3 centuries are actually pretty normal for any dynasty which manages to produce at least 4-6 capable rulers. We have dynasties ruling for 500-700+ years. If we consider cadet branches of House Capet, they are still in power (Bourbon-Parma of Luxembourg)
@Kepotx No idea why he's all agitated. Bigger cities with Bigger populations have existed in the East
 
JAD
7:24 AM
@Aegon Likely explanation:
 
Most cited XKCD...
 
JAD
yep
 
(@JAD XKCD's one box in slack)
 
JAD
yeah I realised that
but ohwell
 
https://xkcd.com/1/ yields
I love early Randell, he expresses himself more in the early comics than in the later ones.
 
JAD
7:28 AM
At university, this one was quoted quite a bit:
mostly in bayesian statistics courses :p
 
7:47 AM
Cool, I'm in the HNQ (question on SX, not answer don't worry TLC)
@JAD bae-sian statistics?
 
JAD
bayesically
 
8:05 AM
So I was re-reading HP
Harry corresponded with fugitive Sirius Black even though he didn't know his whereabouts and trusted his owl to find him
Then, we get to the Half Blood Prince
 
@Aegon Risky business. Don't expect us to rescue you when you fall down itss dark paths
 
Harry asks Slughorn how's he in contact with his former students if he's been continuously on the run for the last year and nobody knows where he is
Wouldn't their owls be able to find Slughorn?
@Edlothiad I was getting bored. I intended to read the Flashman Papers but somehow opened HP instead
Anyways, thoughts? Other than HP is stupid?
 
HP is silly?
HP is terribly inconsisent?
HP was written by ghost writers after the first book and therefore the stories don't link up?
 
Sounds reasonable.
@Edlothiad Really? I thought her prose dramatically improved from 5th book onwards
 
@Aegon Exactly
 
JAD
8:11 AM
It's kinda why I'm not that interested in the HP tag on here. 80%+ of the questions can be chalked up to Rowling being Rowling.
 
She hired better ghost writers.
 
JAD
even worse for the movie questions
 
@JAD You mean Rowling not being her Ghost writers?
 
JAD
I think it's unfair to blame Rowling on Ghost writers
poor ghost writers
 
The Ghosts should've ghosted better...
 
JAD
8:13 AM
and that's not to speak of the last fanfic movies
 
fanfic movies ? i though there was only fanfic books
 
JAD
TCC, FBAWTFT
even the title says WTF
 
FBAWTFT was pretty good
TCC is just rubbish
 
i don't even read/see those
i started to read one fanfic that was quite funnt though
harry potter and the methods of rationality or something like this. Basically, HP is a science-geek who don't believe in magic and explain everithing with rational science. still better logic than original books
 
JAD
oh I heard of that
 
8:21 AM
@Kepotx HP-MOR is the most famous fan-fic, it has a tag on our site :facepalm:
 
I've read only one HP fanfic
It was hilarious
My precious or something of that sort
Harry Potter was a vampire I believe
What's TCC
 
JAD
the cursed child
 
Oh that
 
JAD
yes
exactly
 
I read the play. Thoroughly disappointing
Never watched Fantastic Beasts
 
8:24 AM
I've been led to believe, along with a significant portion of others, that it's non-canon
 
JAD
it's glorified fanfic, so yea
but it's not like HP canon is all that stable
 
funny how i heard a lot of things about HP fanfic, but don't even know one name of a fanfic of LOTR or ASOIAF
 
JAD
given that any random treet in JK Rowling's direction might add to canon on a whim
@Kepotx isn't the entire fantasy genre a LotR fanfic?
 
isn't the entire LotR a fanfic of german/nordic mythology?
 
@JAD JKR is giving out treats?
@Kepotx If that is your argument then all fictitious works of literature are fan-fictions, rather silly point to make.
 
8:29 AM
@Kepotx I read one ASOIAF fanfic. Or at least tried to. Had to give up after reading the first page
The whole premise was Robb getting together with Dacey Mormont
 
@Edlothiad it was more a joke, even if there is inspiration.
 
@Kepotx I wasn't being all too serious ;)
@Aegon Classic fan-fic...
 
8:46 AM
I also heard of a tv-show fanfic made by some mysterious "D&D". The whole premise was to make the first seasons similar to the books to have a big fanbase, and then change more and more thing in a dumb way because it's funny to destroy a masterpiece
 
Brutal
 
9:20 AM
@Kepotx Fanfic indeed:
Didn't even get the clothing right...
 
Is that actually real?
So daft
 
What someone photoshopped uggs on? Seems excessive no?
 
I wouldn't put it passed some people though
 
I would guess it was real, because the shot was only of his torso anyways
He might as well be wearing whatever comfy clothes he's got on when he does it
 
Aye, lazy that though
 
9:27 AM
What he needs to wear his Night's Watch breeches?
He was dead, the implication was that he was naked
@TheLethalCarrot dystopian future, innocent until proven guilty
 
Fair enough, I wasn't going to close cos of that
 
Or so I've been told.
 
Got to run with the rest of the sheople
 
Shoe people?
Did you mean sheeple?
 
sheople looks better to me
 
9:41 AM
She - o - ple is how I reod that.
 
Lol.
For work do I sneak a change in to move common code to a common dll or do I do what I'm supposed to do even though I don't have all the information or a test batch yet?
 
Yep
 
That joke answer annoys me every time I see someone do it
 
Well considering I have no idea what that word means, there you go.
 
You're gonna have to enlighten me on "that word"
 
9:50 AM
That was supposed to say those words
But you said "that joke" and freudian slipped me.
 
Haha
Basically I've been told to put a change into a service but I can only partially do it as I don't have all the information yet nor documents to test with
 
< insert word used in the Flower of Scotland after mentioning King Edward's armies, chanted by the crowd but not noted in the lyrics. >
 
So I could do a change I've been wanting to do which is move common code to some common location so one change in one doesn't have to be updated everywhere but I'd have to sneak it in
 
Just do it!
 
9:58 AM
is your code pair-reviewed ?
 
Nope too few of us
 
if you can just commit it and if it's unseen for a long enough time, could be ok
 
I don't know if a pear can review his code
His peers might be able to, though
 
Oh I could most likely sneak it in, I just don't want to accidentally break something then have all fingers pointing at me haha
 
Step outside, scream really loudly "I'M SNEAKING IT IN" then publish it.
Or push it, or whatever words you computer people use...
 
10:02 AM
We don't do any releases the "proper" way
We just commit to source control and copy files to the server
I like the idea of shouting though, they'd be so confused that they wouldn't even think to look :P
 
@Edlothiad well, if a carrot can code, why not a pear?
 
Doesn't have katanas does it?
 
Pears, pfft, don't even get me started
 
How's it going to press the keys?
 
by jumping at it
 
10:04 AM
< taps temple >
 
Too big will press way too many keys at once
 
Too big, inaccurate key-ing
STOP COPYING WHAT I SAY!
 
Yeah cos I copied....
 
Also, going to meta to get upvotes for your answers, dirty
Argh, today's T-L answer didn't kick off at all, answered at the worst time... 2 uptoots.
Why is the word prune so unappetising? Hey @aeg
 
@Edlothiad Well I do really like the answer and thought it deserved some more recognition
 
10:16 AM
@Edlothiad Is it?
 
I think it is
 
Well I reckon then you are better qualified to tell us why is that word so unappetising
 
Sponge is a good word
 
Well considering it's the name of a food, just doesn't fit
 
Which came first though? Prune the noun or Prune the verb?
 
JAD
10:31 AM
noun it seems
 
Does anyone have 17 ASOIAF Qs to ask so I can get gold? :P
 
@TheLethalCarrot Go to the citadel. Self-Qs and Self-As
 
I may end up resorting to that
I'm currently on page 14 of 19 with ASOIAF and no GoT though
Getting bored of doing that though
 
@JAD Well that clears up the root etymology too. noun comes from pronne and verb comes from proignier.
 
JAD
@Aegon not sure if it does. Since proignier looks like a verbified pronne
 
10:41 AM
Dunno French but yeah it is plausible
 
JAD
otoh, the latin roots on that page do look significantly different
so it might be a coincidence
maybe a question for gardening :D
One might wonder if prunes need a lot of pruning
 
 
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1:25 PM
@Edlothiad You just found this tag hierarchy thing or something?
Also that newest one is by Adamant so I don't think you need to welcome him ;P
 
@TheLethalCarrot I got a mod message after posting a comment that was possibly not the nicest when annoyed by high rep users unable to notice basic trends in tags. So I created a custom comment. That's on the right side of the be nice line, and informative.
I assume if you can't follow basic tag principles, they must be new, and therefore need welcoming.
 
I guessed it was a canned comment
 
Whether it's because their mind was wiped or they have some other condition that causes them to forget the last time they saw a properly tagged question, they all need welcoming. And learning to read tag wiki excerpts, good idea will add that in.
 
No I mean your comment is a canned one
 
Doesn't canned mean deleted/removed? (Above comment was ropey anyways)
 
1:32 PM
Well it can do, I've seen it used as in pre-written comment (in a sense)
 
Ah ok. Yes it's a stock comment.
 
JAD
it's canned if it's from a template
 
Ah stock that's the other word I was thinking of
 
@TheLethalCarrot Or trying to think of
 
Well I was thinking of it and just hadn't found it yet
 
1:35 PM
I quite like it though, I think it's a nice mixture of clearly passive aggressive and informative.
 
Yeah it should be on the good side
 
And by mentioning "tag wiki-excerpts" I won't even have to compile a list of said hierarchies.
I mean cmon though. Do you really need a list of hierarchies if you know that there is always a universe tag to a works tag?
 
JAD
what's the drama about? :p
 
Here's to hoping all tag wiki exercpts are written correctly (Spoiler: they're not ;P)
 
"Ok I know there's a universe tag, and I'm asking about Spiderman. What could the universe tag be?"
 
1:36 PM
Spoderman?
 
@TheLethalCarrot I've personally edited the first two pages, so those ~80 are.
@TheLethalCarrot Wrong. It's obviously Stan Lee's Legendarium
 
Ah was so close!
 
@Edlothiad Make this tag and go on a massive retagging spree
 
@JAD Users with greater than 1k rep being unable to properly tag questions.
 
JAD
@amflare free badges :D
 
1:38 PM
I love edits, there's a reason I'm top this year and was the second half of last year by a country mile. But come on... The first thing I do every morning is fix borked tags...
 
@amflare I'm going to create and retag every Q on here with it ;P
3
 
@amflare Hmmm. If I wasn't already on thin ice....
@TheLethalCarrot Good luck managing 40k edits. After you edit too quickly it locks you out to 30s between edits...
 
JAD
userscript
 
Although 40k would put you a tiny bit ahead of the top editors.
You're still limited to 1 every 30 seconds.
 
just made a script that wait 30 seconds, run it on night
 
1:39 PM
So 2.8k a day
 
That wouldn't take that long then really
 
JAD
turns out scripts are very patient
 
@Kepotx Your night is my mid-afternoon. pls don't
 
~14 days
 
two weeks
 
1:40 PM
Ye but you have to be running that script for 14 days...
 
JAD
so?
 
I'll run it on my server at work, no one will notice...
 
JAD
^
 
and that's if you are the only one to edit. spread it here, all of us launch it, it will be done in three days
 
If we snuck it into SOX or something, we could get like 30-40 people doing the edits without realizing it.
 
1:43 PM
Now y'all are thinking along the right lines
 
@JAD You seem to forget I'm a hardware engineer. Y'all produce magic to make my magic work.
 
@Edlothiad Wait... you are? How did I not know this?
 
Then you hardware lot moan that the software isn't working and we moan back saying the hardware isn't working until one side gives in
 
@TheLethalCarrot The hardware always works...
@amflare Because I'm currently (and till now always have been) employed to write software
 
@Edlothiad Suuuuuurrreeee...
 
1:48 PM
My hardware always works.
 
1 min ago, by TheLethalCarrot
@Edlothiad Suuuuuurrreeee...
 
Lol, brutal
 
@Edlothiad heh heh heh
 
This must be what it feels like to be Jon Snow
 
1:50 PM
@TheLethalCarrot an fortunately, when a computer don't work, common folk hit the computer blaming the hardware
 
@TheLethalCarrot His hardware always worked.
 
I'm looking for the specific meme, but I can't find it
@amflare 100% success, 2 for 2
 
10 users in the reddit, we are 5 only on this chat: does that mean 5 random people often go here to know if he finally know something?
 
Well I know I check it hourly just in case
 
Que?
Oh in the sub reddit
I c
I'm not there. So -1 6 people sitting there waiting, lol
 
2:03 PM
@Edlothiad Same. So -2. 7 people
 
Well I only went there to get the link so depending on how long reddit caches the users in there -3, 8 people
 
and as you (or someone lese) already linked it, i didn't even spend a long time there
still, Im somehow curious to know who this persons are
 
Probably people who have tons of subreddits open on their computer. Like people who have 50 SE chats open on their computers
Some might even be bots or whatever to ensure the site doesn't get nuked for inactivity, as a waste of resources.
 
2:21 PM
Probably bots, especially considering it's likely to always be empty
 
Yerp
 
2:48 PM
@amflare @TheLethalCarrot if you don't mind removing you close votes from here: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/183906/…
So we can dupe the other direction. The answer in that question is far better than in the other question.
 
Done
 
There'll be 2 more entering the queue in a bit.
Cheers.
 
Retracted
 
Merci
 
Woops just blue screened a computer
 
2:56 PM
I always wanted to get a blue screen of death screenshot for a screensaver to mess with people. But I've never found one I liked
 
Lol...
 
JAD
@amflare I had that on an old laptop I didn't use for a while
tricked myself first time I used it again
 
Haha like the good old move delete someone's desktop shortcuts and printscreen with them there and set that as the background
 
JAD
make a screenshot, hide the taskbar and shortcuts, rotate the screen, rotate the screenshot, put screenshot as background
optionally replace mouse sprite for upside down mouse
 
Yeah all that good stuff haha
We used to do it to people's phones all the time if they left them alone
 
JAD
3:05 PM
hmm, over here it's scary clowns as background
for people that leave their pc unlocked
 
Well you'd do that sort of thing too
Another good one is if uni/school make you pay for printing just print out blank pages on someones PC if they leave it logged in
Our school never enforced it but we racked up about £10,000 for someone doing that haha
 
JAD
ouch
our faculty used to have free printing
 
in my company, if someone leave his pc unlocked, we send an email to everyone :
"tomorrow, i bring croissant and chocolatine"
 
JAD
I've seen people print out entire books :shakes head:
 
3:08 PM
My favorite trick was rotating the screen
 
@Kepotx I've seen that sort of thing before
 
Unfortunately the keyboard shortcut stopped working in Win 10
 
it's still costly, but at least it's more enjoyable than white pages
 
JAD
oh yeah, not too long ago we received an email asking whether someone had some spare hemorroid cream :p
 
When I first started someone set my PC to inverted colour or whatever it is
LOL
 
3:45 PM
At uni, we used to call it getting Naylor’d cuz professor Baylor had this really high pixel density profile picture, but was really few bytes big (his research was in data compression)
So if you left your screen you got Naylor’d
The image was insane, you could zoom into his skin indefinitely and never see a blurry pixel
 
Well I mean technically a pixel is never blurry
 
The man has a point
Much like a pencil
 
My dad has carved a bearded fellow into my pencil
And I mean that literally
Before anyone makes any daft comment :P
 
4:38 PM
That was nice of him
 
5:28 PM
Apart from now I don't want to use it in case I end up breaking it haha
 
 
3 hours later…
8:54 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I merged blurry picture with blurry pixels...
Ooh maybe I can upload his photo here!
 
Is that really a wise idea.
 
9:34 PM
Why not? It's a photo of the profs face?
 
 
1 hour later…
10:49 PM
is there a way to write grid in stackexchange?
 

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