The Pearl

TheLethalCarrot

07:52

Did ya get it?

Edlothiad

203 rep, yep.

Didn't get enough to counter the downvote, but now I'm on a multiple of 10 again :)

TheLethalCarrot

Ah nice that's better then haha

I capped yesterday too and didn't think I would

That asoiaf one got more than I expected

Edlothiad

It got you 21, not too shabby

Few more toots and that's a silver badge.

TheLethalCarrot

22 and I got 185 rep from it (I think)

I'll bump it in a min haha

Edlothiad

Its still on page 1 of the HNQ

Top 30 or so.

TheLethalCarrot

07:57

Oh nice

I never even look at the actual HNQ list haha

Edlothiad

Missed another illumination... poop

Getting bad at this now...

TheLethalCarrot

Haha oh dear, how many to go?

Edlothiad

325!

Would've been 321 if I didn't miss the last 4...

TheLethalCarrot

Oooh unlucky

Edlothiad

279 answers 175 illuminated, still over 50% that's what I need to keep it at.

4 in 500 is almost 1% makes a huge difference haha

TheLethalCarrot

08:03

Yeah, though over 50% illuminated is pretty good

I doubt I'm anywhere near that haha

Probably like 15%

Edlothiad

Bellas going to beat me to illuminator too, with all her answers, gosh darn it.

Top 3 is ok, I'll take that lol

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah and she pretty much edits every Q she answers too

Become a HP nerd and you'll be fine haha

That is apparently the way to win

Edlothiad

data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/235493/…

Lol, or Story-id

I still have the top illumination %, and one of the highest accept rates, I will just need to keep up on editing answers

TheLethalCarrot

Ah true

Especially with new users always forgetting the actual story id tag

Edlothiad

Maybe I should write a script (or figure out how) that when I click the post answer button it throws a popup that says "don't forget to edit the question"

TheLethalCarrot

08:13

Haha would be a good plan, though always edit first

Edlothiad

That should be easy enough to do.

Why always edit first?

TheLethalCarrot

Much better to have the "answered by" tag on the homepage than "modified by"

Edlothiad

Does that really change anything?

TheLethalCarrot

I dunno, I know I'm usually more likely to read a new answer than some edit

I've never tested it properly but it's just always been an assumption of mine

Edlothiad

I guess the textbox for the answer has a class, I guess you could have it pop up with the warning before you answer, but FGITW

TheLethalCarrot

08:15

Aye true

Though you don't get too many of those at least

And my illuminater rate is apparently 8.79% so lower than i thought

Edlothiad

Not too shabby haha

Bellas also stealing my top editor title...

TheLethalCarrot

Well to say I've never really paid any attention to it, it's alright I guess

Haha oh dear

Edlothiad

I'm number one editor (for everything below all time)

I mean I have 1800 edits more than her all time, but this month I'm quite far behind.

Time to fix some borked tags

While the site is sleeping

TheLethalCarrot

Haha go fix GRRM for me will ya, I keep forgetting

Edlothiad

Ok, answer some questions so I can bury them!

I might just go round fixing author tags for now.

67 and 97 views respectively for gold badges, must edit them later today!

TheLethalCarrot

08:25

Haha yup certainly gotta bump those

@Edlothiad That is an author tag ;P

Edlothiad

I know, so I'd group that in with the others, you silly goose!

TheLethalCarrot

Were they all tag only edits?

Oh right yeah haha

Edit the body too on closed ones, then we can potentially get reopen votes

Assuming they haven't already been through the queue of course

Edlothiad

Nah has to be within 5 days of closing.

If you're up for re-open votes I might start fixing up closed posts shortly after they're closed.

Could make it TLC and Ed's morning routine haha

TheLethalCarrot

Oh I didn't know there was a 5 day limit on it

Edlothiad

Yerp, OP anytime, anyone else within 5 days of closure.

TheLethalCarrot

08:34

Ah fair enough

I only have 182 edits and 96 flags, I should probably get those up

Although I have to go scan few thousand documents first haha

Edlothiad

Jhees...

That's a lot of docs

So saying the new desk is nice because it's bigger is the wrong thing to say, maybe I should say it's not the same friendly atmosphere as before.

TheLethalCarrot

08:58

Hahaha not as cosy?

@Edlothiad It is but this scanner does around 1000 per min so it doesn't take too long

Can you hurry up and answer a Q to get those last 2k views to hit a million?

I've been waiting on it for a while haha

Edlothiad

I saw it today and just thought to myself, maybe I should never post again, wonder what TLC would say

Ok I'll answer something just after lunch, but I doubt that will take me to a Million.

jhees bella is 4 away from double HP gold...

TheLethalCarrot

Do you have an ad blocker at work? If so which one do you use?

@Edlothiad Haha you'd still hit it eventually anyway

@Edlothiad That's HP for you

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot uBlock Plus Adblocker

@TheLethalCarrot Ye but the long grind of you watching it tick upwards would make me happy haha

TheLethalCarrot

09:13

@Edlothiad I did have AdBlocker Plus but I'd read a few bad things about it so I have uBlock now

Hahaha

Edlothiad

If the views on this question were counted I'd be even closer!

@TheLethalCarrot What did you read, I think I have the other one at home :/

Ahh mine seems to be a combination of the two.

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Just it hogs memory and isn't that efficient and what not

Edlothiad

Hmm maybe I should look into changing

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Wow that was poorly received haha

@Edlothiad I'm gonna give it a go for a bit and see what it's like

Edlothiad

2 more votes are needed to delete that post, lol

I've been tempted to disassociate it from my account.

TheLethalCarrot

09:24

I'm in 2 minds if it's a good Q or not but meh, I'm not too fussed about it haha

Got my silver :)

Edlothiad

It's an awful question haha. I only asked it to get the tag created but that's not how that badge or tags works lol

TheLethalCarrot

I say two minds cos it is sort of useful for learning about the film, even though I doubt it'll ever get reopened haha

And that's a horrible tag haha

Edlothiad

yerrrrp

I should now get it with Solo though

TheLethalCarrot

To be honest I think any question like that is going to be poorly received or controversial at best haha

Just depends who sees it first

Edlothiad

Yerp, took the risk and failed haha

Alright, luncheons.

TheLethalCarrot

09:30

Noice

That "Don't Panic" question is in the positive again as well

Odd though that Valorum's comment on it has 109 UVs but the Q only has 73 DVs

Well I say odd but I know people don't like to DV for whatever reason

Edlothiad

10:12

That's a stupid question

TheLethalCarrot

What is?

What I said?

Edlothiad

The Don't Panic one

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah it really is

Total rep farm

Edlothiad

Nah it is strange that people will upvote a comment saying "you should downvote it" and not downvote

Also barked up the wrong tree with that latest answer.

TheLethalCarrot

What d'ya mean?

Edlothiad

10:17

Wrong asker to do give a quick googled answer on.

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah I guess so

Edlothiad

Known for asking for quite a lot of depth and detail and understanding (a lot of their questions go unanswered)

TheLethalCarrot

I mean though I gave a quote from the author about what exactly they are and it answers the main question

Anymore than that is just extra detail that I would say isn't really needed

Edlothiad

Not with this OP

TheLethalCarrot

Aye, I'm just saying I cover the scope of the question, it might not cover the OP's scope but that's tough luck to them haha

I know nothing about that universe so that will have to do

Edlothiad

10:22

Oh yeah for sure

TheLethalCarrot

I wish he'd made the wiki for the tag before going off to ask another Q and answer one too. The backlog for tag wikis is already quite high

Edlothiad

I'll get round to them at some point. Focus on the excerpts if you do do them, the Wikis are just additional noise

TheLethalCarrot

Well I'll do both if I'm doing them but won't be putting much effort into the wikis haha

I'm not in the mood to actually fix them at the moment though haha

Too much effort :P

TheLethalCarrot

11:34

Hopefully I can ride on yesterday's answers to cap, already at 165

Including 30 from today

Edlothiad

That's pretty good. I think I'll leave today off, I'm on 20

What's with all the bloody infinity stones questions

TheLethalCarrot

All from the same user though aren't they?

Edlothiad

Yerp

Hence the question

Why's he so bloody interested?

TheLethalCarrot

Rep farm/too lazy to google

Take your pick

Edlothiad

I think I'm going to use an image of the infinity gauntlet and say yes, except one.

TheLethalCarrot

11:41

They all appear the same size to me

Oh wait ignore me

Edlothiad

Damn he addresses that in his question

TheLethalCarrot

Originally the same size

One bigger in MCU

Take the answer and go :P

Edlothiad

I'm going with that

Probably not enough to repcap off that

TheLethalCarrot

11:57

Silver surfer vol 3 issue 44, apparently the very first appearance of it

readcomiconline.to/Comic/Silver-Surfer-1987/Issue-44?id=11669

There are a few more shots of it throught the comic and they are all the same size

Edlothiad

Is that before IG1?

TheLethalCarrot

No idea, I'm gonna post it though, take it to the HNQ hopefulyl haha

Edlothiad

Yep 7 months earlier

I may have semi snaked you :D

TheLethalCarrot

Meh I was going to let you have the answer alone anyway but posting a second in quick succession will potentially send us to the HNQ haha

Edlothiad

12:18

I don't think so

TheLethalCarrot

No doesn't look like it

Edlothiad

Ok, top 12 rep this month

I should do some work :/

TheLethalCarrot

Lol, I've had a bit done today, mainly testing and support calls though

Edlothiad

I've got some tutorials I'm going through, I've done 2 and they're basic as all else

TheLethalCarrot

Oh unlucky

Edlothiad

12:26

Ugh, that comment under my answer "But on my screen they're not the exact same size"

Marvel says they are then they are, take it and leave...

TheLethalCarrot

I had a similar comment

On my screen the green one is 9mm while the blue is 8mm. They should be the same distance to the "camera". — OrangeDog 4 mins ago

WTF?

I don't think I can even be bothered to reply to that one

Edlothiad

Wow those comments are just getting out of hand...

TheLethalCarrot

I was about to write a snarky comment about not bringing my micrometer with me today but thought I'll leave it haha

Edlothiad

I think just upvote each others comments and make him feel bad

TheLethalCarrot

Aye

Edlothiad

12:40

Flag him as R/A

TheLethalCarrot

Haha I wouldn't go that far but he's certainly being difficult on purpose

I'm not going to reply to them now

Don't see the point

Edlothiad

Lol he reversed his upvote into a downvote.

TheLethalCarrot

I saw, an idiot

Don't understand why you'd UV it first though if you're just going to argue it

Edlothiad

I'm in another discussion elsewhere, this is getting frustrating

TheLethalCarrot

Lol amazing answer

Edlothiad

12:56

And here comes the HNQ, lol

TheLethalCarrot

Haha, I've DVed their answer it is very poor

Edlothiad

you are the one misinterpreting the quote. 0.7" and 1.4" are both "approximately one inch" and yet one is twice the size of the other. — OrangeDog 55 secs ago

Oh deary me...

TheLethalCarrot

I know

I started replying and then realised not worth it

Oh they sent the same comment to both of us

C'mon 1 more updoot to cap, then room for a couple more updoots too

Lol I think that's enough evidence that they are the same

Also edit the Q :P

Edlothiad

13:13

Nearly forgot to illuminate haha, just saw this

TheLethalCarrot

Haha, I think you have enough images in your answer now though that they are the same size

Edlothiad

Can I have the downvote reversed then?

TheLethalCarrot

You'll have to ask them haha

I doubt it though

Edlothiad

The all important full stop, of course!

TheLethalCarrot

Of course ;P

2 fullstops!

Edlothiad

13:23

Looks like I'm redoing the tutorial, set up with the wrong board, lol

TheLethalCarrot

Oh dear haha

Rand al'Thor

@TheLethalCarrot Not "if I see it", rather "if it's flagged for mod attention and I'm the one handling the flag".

TheLethalCarrot

@Randal'Thor Well that's pretty much what I meant

Edlothiad

Do you know where the relevant meta policy is for that one rand? I couldn't be bothered to find it.

TheLethalCarrot

I was just letting Ed know

Rand al'Thor

13:31

I don't have some kind of vendetta against such links; just following the policy (as detailed in meta and TOS) when flags bring it to attention.

@Edlothiad I linked to it when editing TLC's post.

Edlothiad

Ah ok, cheers

TheLethalCarrot

This one I think

10

Q: Should We Allow Links to Sources of a Questionable Legal Status?

I was just reading a question where an answer provided a link to a script of a two part episode of a television show. This is not hosted on a production company website, it's what appears to be a private site. I am not aware of all the legal issues with scripts, but I know there are a number of...

Edlothiad

13:46

Aye

My hardware doesn't have the supposed files I need, argh

TheLethalCarrot

Woops

Do you think I'll get 1 more UV today? I'm at 194 for today so far

Edlothiad

Most likely

OK, in image 1 they are actually identically sized (and colored). In 2 and 3 though they are vastly different. Image 3 even has the massive central gem. — OrangeDog 4 mins ago

I give up...

"Vastly different" "massive central gem"

There are only two explanations, he's still taking the piss, or he's tardigrade and micrometers are kilometers to him

amflare

14:11

I hate writing recursive functions

TheLethalCarrot

14:21

Me too

11 secs ago, by TheLethalCarrot

Me too

6 secs ago, by TheLethalCarrot

11 secs ago, by TheLethalCarrot

Me too

etc.

amflare

:/

TheLethalCarrot

I was just going to write Me too over and over but it collapses into the same message apparently

Recursive functions aren't too bad but most of the time you're better off with a loop in my opinion

amflare

I'm working with arbitrarily deep arrays. The recursion is to check for children.

Edlothiad

I have 0 children, no recursion needed for me

Don’t most languages have an easy way of getting array length?

amflare

yes, but not depth

TheLethalCarrot

14:32

Ah fair enough

I do a similar thing when deleting down directories get all files, delete, get all directories recurse, delete directory

Edlothiad

Ah I thought you were using them interchangeably

TheLethalCarrot

15:15

Interesting that someone has gone through and UVed that users comments but haven't UVed their answer

amflare

15:55

So once SO switches to the new theme, IDK if SO-ify will work for the 2 months until SE switches over.

TheLethalCarrot

I didn't know SO were going to a new theme

amflare

I supposed I could download the .css file and do some shenanigans to pull it in, but idk how possible this is.

50

Q: Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps

In the post entitled Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes, I described a number of changes that are coming with the introduction of the left navigation bar. In addition to the navigation changes, we will be introducing responsive design and new theming across the Stack Exchange...

discussion featured design announcements left-nav

@TheLethalCarrot ^

And previously

150

Q: Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes

Thanks everyone for your feedback. The team has responded to feedback in the post Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps . Check it out. Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming. As you've hopefully read in our various posts on Teams, we are in the midst of some major work. We're introduci...

discussion design navigation announcements

TheLethalCarrot

Oh the Left Nav? I didn't get the impression from reading that, that they were gonna theme SO, though i only skim read it

amflare

16:11

Dammit TLC, I was answering that question

TheLethalCarrot

Lol, I was sure it was her but I was looking for more sources saying the same thing before writing an answer up

Plus it took about 10 mins to find an image that SE would actually accept

amflare

Snipped me by 12 seconds....

TheLethalCarrot

Though, thinking about it, I don't know why i didn't just save one and upload it haha

amflare

12 damned seconds

TheLethalCarrot

Lol UVed yours anyway

amflare

16:13

If you UV the Q as well, we could probably get this on the HNQ

TheLethalCarrot

I already have done

amflare

Excellent

TheLethalCarrot

Maybe I should watch altered carbon :P

amflare

I'm actually surprised how many UV the Q got before there were any answers

Didn't think it would be the sort

TheLethalCarrot

I'm not looked to me it was going to be popular

amflare

16:15

Its a decent show. Worth the time IMO

TheLethalCarrot

That's why I answered it even though I've already capped

Hoping it'll go into the HNQ and I can get a headstart on capping tomorrow haha

@amflare It does seem decent so will have to give it a go

Though the Netflix app on our TV has borken

amflare

That is terrible

TheLethalCarrot

Me trying to headstart tomorrow or the app borking?

amflare

the app borking

TheLethalCarrot

Ah good

amflare

16:18

lol

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah tried a few things to fix it and nothing's worked yet

amflare

Have you tried throwing it out of a window?

TheLethalCarrot

Only a year old TV!

amflare

"The things I do for netflix"

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

To be honest Netflix in the UK doesn't seem that great

amflare

16:20

tbh I'm not stoked about netflix over here either

TheLethalCarrot

We have NowTV which isn't too great but easier to use on TVs than Netflix

My gf pays for Netflix though so doesn't bother me much haha

amflare

fair

TheLethalCarrot

If I was paying for it, I wouldn't be :P

amflare

I get that

I use netflix to find new things that I would not otherwise be exposed to

for anything even reasonably current, I have sources

TheLethalCarrot

Aye we've used it a few times but more on the rare occasion than frequently

amflare

16:23

thats my biggest gripe about netflix, that it takes forever to get a show added

TheLethalCarrot

The only reason we have NowTV is because the landlord stupidly ripped out the aerial cables when installing a Sky dish so we can't use a Freeview box

Yeah is a pain

Like "The end of the f***ing world" was on Netflix months after it was first on Channel 4

amflare

I watched a show called Imposters the other day, the whole first season is up, and the second is currently airing. So I get hooked and then either have to wait 9 months or pirate.

And they wonder why its such a big problem

TheLethalCarrot

Aye

Doesn't look like that will go to the HNQ

Too few traffic

Oh well, I'm going home now anyway haha

amflare

It has a damn good start for its age. It'll only take a couple more votes to make it

take it easy man

TheLethalCarrot

Oh aye it's had a very good start out but few people looking at it, suppose I shall see tomorrow

amflare

16:55

There we go. It made it.

Edlothiad

20:15

I like netflix, I can binge the hell out of friends

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