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RELOAD! There are 6190 unanswered questions (90.0811% answered)
@artyom.razinov I concur with Cœur, this doesn't answer the question at all. You can't view the authors in the comparison/code review mode, and this answer doesn't show how to select earlier commits within the authors view. — Erik Kerber 51 secs ago
 
12:20 AM
Update: The code works. After looking through the comments I will move the question to codereview. I didn't realize there was another site just for code reviews (I am learning). — Upgrayedd 25 secs ago
 
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Q: Matrix class in C#

cliesensI've been learning C# during my free time in the past months; before that, I was mostly writing Java, so the transition hasn't been too hard, but I've never had my code reviewed or read by someone else. Is there anything that could be improved, or maybe simplified? Am I doing anything that wou...

 
1:17 AM
Nice. Inline. One line. Plus a little what does this code do problem for the interested code reviewer. — jim birch 10 secs ago
 
2:09 AM
And please consider having your code reviewed. You could learn a lot. — ikegami 16 secs ago
 
 
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Q: C# Toy Robot Simulator

user3155083I did this coding exercise for a potential employer who failed it on the basis of unspecified style and structure issues and would appreciate any thoughts on what flaws this contains, in particular in relation to style, structure or any other important software design principles. Program.cs nam...

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Q: Linux Commands in Python

LinnyI've decided to write some Linux commands in Python. Below is a list, along with some constraints (if you're unfamiliar with Linux, the top of the program along has a description about each command and what it does): ls: No constraints, just lists all files/directories in current working direct...

 
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Q: That's it for now

t3chb0tI'll make it short because I think the more I say the more likely it is that it'll offend someone. As a reaction to the latest events on MSE concerning the CoC and especially the Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes posted yesterday, from now on I will cease posting any...

 
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Q: programming exercise: merge_adjacent occurence in data collection

user9400869There is a small programming exercise and my sollution(with test cases). The objective is to write the body of the merge_adjacent function, that you find below. There are two solution (passing the tests from the exercise). I am asking for review of the first version using standard algorithms. T...

 
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Q: Need a better way to find overlapping area of octagon

Aditya SoniHere is my problem statement: There is a matrix of octagons, for example, 4 octagons in a row and 3 such rows. So 4 columns and 3 rows of octagons. But they are not arranged in a perfect rectangle form. Case1: The first Octagon, O(0,0) has coordinates(0,0), while the one at its right and t...

 
7:06 AM
I suggest taking this to Code Review if you have working code. — Filburt 5 secs ago
There is a separate Code Review site which deals more with this kind of question. We deal mainly with problems and bugs. — ADyson 55 secs ago
 
7:18 AM
You see, we actually do not review working code here. You could turn to codereview.stackexchange.com ... but you should really really study their help center first before putting up a request. Dont blindly put up content: first learn how to conform to the rules of the community you ask for help. — GhostCat 27 secs ago
 
 
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8:32 AM
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it belongs on Code Review. — Andrew Morton 6 secs ago
 
8:42 AM
You see, we actually do not review working code here. You could turn to codereview.stackexchange.com ... but you should really really study their help center first before putting up a request. Dont blindly put up content: first learn how to conform to the rules of the community you ask for help. — GhostCat 18 secs ago
This is an excellent code review, but doesn't answer why in @Christina's case matches is zero. imo and unless I'm missing something the question is unanswerable without more info. — acraig5075 30 secs ago
 
 
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Q: Simple VGA driver for a toy kernel

eanmosI learn about OS development and follow the tutorial Bare Bones on OSDev. And I did some extra tasks from the Moving Forward section. I would like to get any suggestion about code improvement, especially about the Makefile and the project layout on GitHub. Here is the code. Thanks in advance. ...

 
10:19 AM
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is seeking peer review of your code instead of asking a specific programming problem. However, this question should be a good fit for Code Review. — L. F. 26 secs ago
 
10:31 AM
@hoffmale Welcome back.
Not such a bad time to come back. We need active people at the moment, so, not a bad time at all.
Don't mind the dumpster fires.
 
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Q: Bidirectional numeric (floating point) sequence iterator

Tomáš ZatoI wanted a neat iterator that will always give me neat sequence of step spaced numbers. This is what I came up with, but I am a bit skeptical that I covered all cases. /** * Creates numeric range iterator. The iterator will iterate between start and end. * Start may be larger than end. The out...

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Q: is it possible to rewrite the code in a different way for best practice?

Luca RuggeriI need to refactor the below code because i think that there will be a more easy way to write it down can someone help me ? the code work perfectly but i would like to know if there is a better way to write it . Taking in consideration performance . Function returnRequestedNumberArray...

 
10:43 AM
It's reassuring to know the site's director of public Q&A has a nuanced, completely straw-man-free view on the debate. i.stack.imgur.com/VLqFB.jpgPëkka 3 hours ago
Oops.
 
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Q: C++ ringbuffer with cas

DDKV587This a sample unlock ringbuffer with cas.But still with bugs in put / get. One known bug is multi readers will make m_rear step over m_front then block or coredump. Can someone help me to fix it? Thanks!!! #include <memory> #include <atomic> #include <thread> #include <vector> ...

 
10:59 AM
@L.F. I agree, the wording of the title suggests that I'm looking for a code review. However, I'm actually only interested whether the bit pattern is well defined by the standard. I rephrased the title accordingly. — sebrockm 26 secs ago
 
11:36 AM
That's why I just blindly deleted all comments, @dalearn. If I had to pick and choose, nobody would be happy. If nobody is gonna be happy, then I might as well make my job easier. — Shog9 ♦ 12 hours ago
Pragmatism.
 
classic Shog
 
JAD
12:07 PM
@Mast hmm, that'll surely get everybody on your side
 
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Q: What is actually the right way to protect parent scope variables in FORTRAN?

Mr PuhSo I just picked up a project that is written in fortran90. I am used to coding in python and C. What is really troubling for me is the use of subroutines in fortran90. In fortran people use subroutines to set variables of the parentscope in a sub function. This is really intransparent for me si...

 
12:46 PM
@CaptainObvious This question is way off-topic.
@Mast @MathieuGuindon Did EBrown quit yesterday, not sure I understand the new name 410_gone
 
@JAD If only it were that simple. The entire lead up to the implementation of the CoC has negatively predisposed almost everyone against it.
 
@pacmaninbw I noticed the name change, but didn't see any explicit statement (didn't search for one either though)
 
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Q: Getting Windows User Info From The Active Directory

rickmanalexanderI took some boilerplate code that I have been using for determining an active windows user's info to either send emails with their details, or to pass to a error logging class, and encapsulated it in its own class. What I would like to know about my implementation of this is: Are there more eff...

 
1:05 PM
You really shouldn't use your own salts on password hashes and you really should use PHP's built-in functions to handle password security. Make sure you don't escape passwords or use any other cleansing mechanism on them before hashing. Doing so changes the password and causes unnecessary additional coding. — Jay Blanchard 59 secs ago
 
Greetings, Programs.
 
@Donald.McLean I bow before the almighty user.
 
JAD
it appears to me as if the CoC change boils down to "being nice to eachother includes using their pronouns if they ask for it", while presenting it so heavyhandedly that a lot of people assume that these will be commonplace everyday occurances, rather than a clarification on something that occasionally happens.

If it was presented as such, it probably wouldn't have caused as much fuss, but given that it was pre-empted by two weeks of speculation and boiling heads... yeah :/
 
@MushifAliNawaz You meant codereview.stackexchange.com , probably? — Marco13 34 secs ago
 
1:25 PM
I'm going to step back from SE for a while. Not because I disagree with their changes (at least, as I think they intend their changes to be, even if their wording is a little vague), but because I don't want to be involved in digital bar brawls. You can contact me at my discord server here: discord.gg/6H5eJbr.
(Removed that last bit, since it was more applicable to the rooms I frequent.)
 
1:37 PM
@JAD It's the tone that makes the music.
@Hosch250 No worries, thanks for the notification.
Feel free to drop by in The 2nd anytime.
 
@Mast you might want to post that to his discord account.
 
@pacmaninbw @MathieuGuindon I know he was considering it, but nothing explicit indeed.
@pacmaninbw shrug, chat replies still go to e-mail if you don't read them in time, right?
 
@Mast I've never gotten one in email, I have gotten one or two about comments if I haven't logged in for a couple of days.
 
Oh
You might be right.
I practically live here, so I wouldn't know what happens if you don't read them in time.
 
Too bad I can't get a second fanatic badge for 131 days of consecutive logging into CR.
 
1:44 PM
I'm at 105 consecutive at meta CR while at 77 on main CR. Odd.
@pacmaninbw What would the point of that be though?
 
JAD
@Mast moar badges?
 
@Mast @JAD more GOLD badges.
:)
 
JAD
no less
 
@Mast No reason that I can think of, some of the badges do repeat with a count.
 
JAD
yearling is the only example I know of
 
1:49 PM
Kill zombies, get badges.
@JAD Revival, necromancer, many do.
 
I've got 4 necromancer badges.
 
JAD
@Mast hmm, but those don't have a count
 
Nice question (etc.), popular question (etc.), caucus, constituent.
 
JAD
but then again, neither does yearling
 
Then there are capped ones, like Steward. Can only get so many of them, but more than 1.
Custodian.
I have 6 Custodian and 2 Steward badges.
 
JAD
1:52 PM
I can't think of any badges that have a progress bar that can be awarded more than once (per context)
like, you don't get 2 legendary badges if you repcap 300 times
 
Why would you need a progress bar?
 
JAD
we were talking about Fanatic
which is awarded when you get 100/100 consecutive days
which is different than say great answer, which you get every time an answer hits 100 score
 
Some users have 10+ gold badges and 100+ silver badges. By that time, the badge count is your progress bar.
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JAD
that's not my point though
 
You had a point?
 
JAD
1:54 PM
I was wondering the same
I was responding to @pacmaninbw that said some badges do repeat with a count
saying that I can't think of any
 
Oh, I think he meant that you could get some badges more than once.
 
JAD
some yeah, but none with a count, like Fanatic ;)
 
That's a progress bar. There's more way than one to define count.
One would almost say, countless ways.
 
JAD
6 mins ago, by Mast
Why would you need a progress bar?
\o/ full circle
 
@Mast Oh no, not another pun
 
JAD
1:59 PM
anyways, this is making my head spin
 
@JAD You realize the two of us are arguing about how a third has intended something, right? Of-course we'd go full circle :-)
 
JAD
I'm out for the count
 
We'll count you out.
 
JAD
I have no counter to that
also, meeting. ttyl
 
I have more answers on meta than on main, hmmm.
Another reason to write more answers.
 
2:11 PM
@Mast Truely
Monking @410_Gone
 
Happy to see you at the right place again, @MathieuGuindon!
 
@pacmaninbw Not "quit" no
 
One thing I miss about being a mod is the notification about new meta posts...
 
thanks! :)
 
Though I am debating it. Not too keen on the hate a good chunk of users have been showing lately.
 
2:13 PM
@410_Gone GOOD! I would have missed you.
 
@410_Gone Have I missed anything?
 
@410_Gone To steal a good suggestion from a bad man in 1994, "Can't we all just get along?"
 
BTW, I hope your @410_Gone is an indication that you will disappear?
 
You hope he'll disappear?
@SimonForsberg Been on meta.SE lately? A lot of toxic questions, answers and comments.
 
@SimonForsberg ^^ What he said
 
2:15 PM
@SimonForsberg you hope? o__O
 
I suspect a typo, Mr. While man.
 
@SimonForsberg Lots of people showing serious disrespect around this CoC thing. A certain user keeps making flagrant remarks like "I'm autistic so you can't ask me to break the laws of English to support this change!" and I am so irreconcilably offended by that, as someone who is autistic and things that whole concept is ridiculous.
Breaking the 'rules of English' is not comparable to the active and extreme harassment and disrespect shown against the LGBTQ+ crowd, and I find it unbearably offensive that a certain site's moderators agree with this person's sentiment.
 
if only it were actually breaking any "rules of English"
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@MathieuGuindon Indeed.
So, I'm just reevaluating if I'll hang around...haven't made my decision yet, but if I do there won't be any warning and I'll likely respond to pings.
Not going to abandon my friends (consider pretty much everyone in the room right now my friend) but I won't be around as much if I decide to go that route.
 
2:19 PM
@410_Gone Is that an SE or CR user? Because I've simply decided to let the rest of SE burn as long as it keeps CR afloat.
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@Mast Extremely high-profile user of another SE site.
"The squeaky wheel" or so they say.
 
There's a couple of users who may fit that description, I don't think they're active on CR.
 
I did find singular they somewhat off-putting when I first encountered it, and I can understand some people's reluctance to use it. But the mild discomfort of using it (which eventually completely vanishes) weights nothing in the balance at the end of the day, when both sides are thoughtfully, cold-headedly considered.
@410_Gone I do hope you stick around :)
 
@MathieuGuindon I still find it awkward, but, you know, people change. Language does too, by the way.
OHAI @Kaz
 
Kaz
@Mast :)
 
2:22 PM
@MathieuGuindon Exactly. The first time I used the neutral "they" it was...awkward. The first time I used Xe, Xer, etc., it was awkward. But, I don't particularly care that it's awkward. The fact that someone is furthering the stigma of Autistic people being twats by saying "respecting LGBTQ+ is ridiculous" is extremely irritating to me, and feels like a personal attack.
 
@Mast That user isn't no
 
My problem with the whole debacle is that I try to keep all my answers not only gender neutral but person neutral. Anything that points at a user can be taken as an attack so I only talk about the code or the subject.
 
@410_Gone I hope you stick around too. We need allies. There are far too few
 
I've never used Xe and/or Xer. Is there anyone in this room that would feel more comfortable with being approached like that (and help me understand how it should be used)? Honest question.
 
@MathieuGuindon Like I said, haven't made a decision yet. I may cool down further and decide to stick around. (That's probably what will happen.) For now, my username reflects my connection with the SE community on a whole, in that it is gone.
 
2:24 PM
Might as well take this as a learning experience...
 
@bruglesco ;) See above.
 
@Mast First off, I am She/Her. But I think it is literally a 1:1 substitution.
 
@bruglesco I knew the first part, I don't understand the latter part.
Is it like using they instead of him/her?
 
@Mast I think that's what she is saying, yes.
 
Right. That's going to take some getting used to, but I'll try.
 
2:27 PM
So, if someone request to be referred to as 'Xe' / 'Xim', it would be "Xe is ...." instead of "He is ....", or "... xim", instead of "... him".
 
In my head, Xe is Xenon, so, don't kill me.
xim?
Does that mean there's also a xhe?
 
yes
 
@bruglesco to which one of the questions
 
@Mast Xe/Xim, Xhe/Xer, IIRC. (Entirely possible I'm mistaken here.)
 
Those all exist? How do people keep them apart?
looks for flowcharts
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2:31 PM
@Mast :)
 
 
Kaz
@410_Gone Whilst I think he exaggerates for effect (assuming you're talking about who I think you're talking about). I've also known him for years and he's a lot closer to his descriptions of himself than you might think.
 
TBH as much as I don't have any problem whatsoever with singular 'they', I do have difficulty with all these neo-pronouns, and I'll probably make a number of mistakes along the way. AND IT'S OKAY TO MAKE MISTAKES. What's not Ok is to purposely, willfully, stubbornly refusing to even try. Thanks for posting that table @Mast!
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Is Ze, hir, hirs equivalent to They, them, their?
 
Kaz
@MathieuGuindon Which would be fine, if SE's actions against Monica hadn't called into question how they plan to deal with "mistakes".
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2:34 PM
@Kaz Absolutely.
 
I've read the leaked transcripts
 
@MathieuGuindon You're a mod now, why do you need the leaked ones?
 
much easier to find than browsing the TL transcript :)
 
lol
@MathieuGuindon Least I can do, as long as I don't understand what I'm doing.
 
@Kaz It doesn't really matter, though. It's an excuse, and it just creates more problems. I don't care where you are on the spectrum, saying "I'm on the spectrum so I can't be bothered to <x>" is ridiculous, disrespectful, and further harms everyone. That is my problem.
I sympathize with him, but on the other hand, there's a point where one should just say "you know what, I need to take a step back and compose myself." That particular person isn't, and instead is active perpetuating harm.
 
2:37 PM
@MathieuGuindon I'm effing trans and I have difficulty with all of those. But you better believe I will try to treat people using them with respect.
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Q: JavaRPN (Updated)

ViceroyFaustHullo, code reviewers. I have previously worked on this program in this question, and have gotten some very good answers and help! Now, I have done some more work on the program, and would love if you could give me honest feedback on what I need to change. Main package owl; import java.io.Buff...

 
@MathieuGuindon Agreed. Everyone makes mistakes. SE has a "no profanity" policy, but do you get perma-banned for saying the 'F' word once? No. It's not an authoritarian state.
 
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion there's no definitive list.
 
Kaz
@410_Gone Depends. It's not very different from "I am [X] which means that I find [Thing you consider "normal"/"easy"] to actually be [Incredibly difficult / painful / impossible]".
 
@Kaz Difficult? Sure. Impossible? That seems a stretch. I had trouble with it for years, but instead of "I'm <x> so I can't <y>", I continuously trained myself to change my behaviour. I accepted criticism. I didn't make an excuse.
 
2:39 PM
faerself, aerself, eirself, himself, perself, herself, themself, verself, xemself, hirself, wot
@410_Gone There's plenty of people who never made that step though. Blame healthcare.
There are psychologists and psychiatrists that tell you to embrace who you are and tell others your boundaries, instead of growing up and accepting theirs.
vis, xyrs, hirs
 
@Mast If your parents don't tell you murder is bad, but society has a rule against it and you do it anyway, who's at fault? The victim, or the murderer?
 
@Kaz That person has been chasing me around the network and harassing me. I don't care what they are autism isn't an excuse for abuse.
 
@410_Gone Does at matter? Don't do it or face the consequences.
It's not an excuse, it's an explanation.
 
@Mast That's my point. "I'm autistic, you can't expect me to follow this new rule I never cared about before!" isn't acceptable.
 
Kaz
@bruglesco That I agree with.
 
2:43 PM
@Kaz anyway what I mean is, as much as I find Monica an exceptionally good moderator, as far as I can tell from what's been made public, she has refused, repeatedly (IIUC both in TL and a private email conversation), to acknowledge singular 'they' as valid (while having no problem with neo-pronouns... go figure), and she needs to recognize that this refusal has hurt a number of people present, and AFAICT, hasn't, and doesn't intend to (unless I missed it somewhere).
 
@410_Gone I their head it might be. They'll have to face the consequences of that folly, but that doesn't mean right now, it could be very logical for that person.
 
This question feels like it should be on codereview.stackexchange.comAjahnCharles 16 secs ago
 
@bruglesco Can't you report this behavior and have SE check into it?
 
@pacmaninbw I did
 
Can I still say 'they' in the previous chat posts?
 
2:44 PM
@bruglesco Nothing changed?
 
@MathieuGuindon So much of the issues are spread so far around that I think someone could confess to murder in this madness right now and no one would pay any attention...
 
@pacmaninbw They said they are handling it...
 
Even Dictionary.com acknowledges that the use of 'they' is transforming and being normalized to singular or plural for the gender-neutral form.
 
So?
I had an English book that rejected it.
In high-school.
 
the story of singular 'you' can put things in perspective...
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2:47 PM
@Mast Usage changes over years.
 
Keep in mind there's people out there scared of computers. Still. In this age. Some people change slower than others.
@pacmaninbw Never said it didn't.
 
I'm not sure anyone from the 1600's would understand the English of today.
 
So, in short, can we conclude using 'they' is fine unless someone explicitly prefers something else?
@pacmaninbw I'm not sure half of us would understand 1600's English either.
It's bloody hard to decypher.
 
@Mast Especially the spelling.
 
Heck, 1800's Dutch is hard to decypher at times.
 
2:50 PM
@MathieuGuindon The conversation that starts here suggests that she is trying to learn.
 
It might all just be miscommunication.
 
likely is
 
This is also confusing:
> In 1789, William H. Marshall records the existence of a dialectal English epicene pronoun, singular ou : "'Ou will' expresses either he will, she will, or it will." Marshall traces ou to Middle English epicene a, used by the fourteenth-century English writer John of Trevisa, and both the OED and Wright's English Dialect Dictionary confirm the use of a for he, she, it, they, and even I.
How did we get from there to here?
 
interesting
 
2:57 PM
Isn't this question more suited for codereview? — Kraay89 21 secs ago
 
@410_Gone Ugh
 
@SimonForsberg Yep. Dumpster fire for sure.
 
JAD
@Mast ooh, a fellow dutchie? :)
 
@JAD you didn't know?
 
@bruglesco I find it ridiculous that mods are stating "we don't believe there's a problem here" even after you point it out, by the way.
Like, you just gave them examples, and they still don't believe you...WTAF.
 
3:01 PM
yeah...
 
Oh, this all reminds me.
 
"Is there any way the following code can be improved" - very much sounds like this belongs on Code Review, not Stack Overflow. — Damien_The_Unbeliever 37 secs ago
 
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Dumpster fires are going to be the status quo for a while.
 
@Mast I laughed so hard I started to cry.
 
@Mast When it comes to technical systems, I believe that if your lights don't go amber or red on a regular basis, how can you be sure they still truly work?
 
3:06 PM
@410_Gone Reminds me of a system I worked with. Whenever it would fail to function, you could make it crash to enable a reboot later. With the crash, it would light up like a Christmas tree.
Whenever that happened, someone would usually say "at least the lights still work".
For context, that system was a production line 300m long.
 
@Mast I remember when PDP 11's had toggle switches on the front face so that you could program them.
Each toggle switch represented a bit.
 
@410_Gone The first time I used the Swedish gender-neutral "hen" (instead of "han" / "hon") it felt awkward, then I got used to it and it no longer felt awkward. (Thanks for letting me know about Xe/Xer btw)
 
@JAD Ja, @skiwi ook.
 
I enjoyed this answer
 
@pacmaninbw Contrary to popular belief, not all of us are actively plotting to take over the world.
 
3:15 PM
I'm out of votes on MSE =[
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@pacmaninbw I knew people would reply, so I'm hanging around for just a bit.
 
@Hosch250 just FYI, I'm not a big fan of Discord.
 
OK.
 
@410_Gone The solution, btw, was that the user in question has placed me on ignore so as not to be tempted to interact with me further.
 
@bruglesco Until they attack the next trans person...good work SE.
@SimonForsberg It's a learning process for everyone.
 
3:24 PM
@bruglesco Do you know if the user was warned and that was why they put you on ignor?
 
@pacmaninbw I don't know what happened behind the scenes at all. No.
 
I mean...SE said the answer to being asked to use gender-neutral (or specified) pronouns is not to ignore LGBTQ+ folks, but the exact result is said person ignoring LGBTQ+ folks? That's a level of irony I'm not even sure how to describe anymore.
 
@410_Gone The best any of us can do is to get someone to change their external behavior. We will not be able to change how they think. What exactly do you think should have happened?
 
@pacmaninbw A user harassing another user? Well...I can think of one appropriate response...
 
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Q: balanced curly brackets check from regex in C#

jaiyaI have the following sentence, "Please check for {input1} and {input2} and {input3}. Thank you." I have the following regex to extract everything in braces. private static MatchPattern(string sentence) { Regex regex = new Regex(@"(?<=\{)[^}]*(?=\})", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); MatchCollection m...

 
3:39 PM
@410_Gone The first proper response is to warn the offender that someone thinks they are being harassed. If it continues there can be additional steps to take.
 
To be fair the official policy is in fact to start with a warning
 
@410_Gone I'm not trying to piss you off, I'm speaking from a few more years of experience than you have, and some anger management training.
The anger management was something my psychologist suggested.
 
MOnking
 
@pacmaninbw Right, so just "ignore" the parties you are offending and ostracize them? That worked well for Alan Turing.
 
@410_Gone Can you point me to a reference about Alan Turing about this, I only know him as a mathematician and computer scientist?
 
3:49 PM
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Despite these accomplishments, he was not fully recognised in his home country during his...
 
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Q: Node.js: exporting a method call out of the module?

montrealist// a.js: const postcss = require('postcss'); // here - export the result of a method call: module.exports = postcss.plugin('postcss-url-ref', function(opts) { // ... }); // how it's used in b.js: const postcssUrlRef = require('a.js'); const postcss = require('postcss'); function doStuff(f...

 
@410_Gone I'm Jewish, do you want me to go into all the ways the Jews have been discriminated and punished for being different, including the NAZI program to eradicate all of us? I had relatives that were in the camps and the rest of their family was murdered before they got to the camps. My mother was born in Poland before WWII. There is a lot in the USA I am currently scared about and don't like.
 
@410_Gone The problem with the solution I am now facing is. Now that I have asked them to leave me alone and asked mods to step in. And now that they have me on ignore. When, and they've made it clear it is a matter of when, they continue to spout problematic sentiments, I am in a position where I cannot engage in calling it out because it looks like I am then asking them to respond to me again
 
One of my mother's uncles was gay as well
 
@pacmaninbw And if I saw someone on this network defending anti-Jewish rhetoric I would be just as angry.
 
4:04 PM
agreed. And I am sorry you went through all that
And realistically still go through it.
 
@bruglesco Make others aware of the problem and let them report the problem if it happens again.
 
Folks spewing anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Jew, anti-black, etc. propaganda are a problem, and don't belong on SE if SE truly wants to promote diversity.
 
@410_Gone I don't like any of these things either, whether it is on SE or in real life. In real life there isn't a lot I can do about it.
 
That depends. I'll take the assault charge to do something about it.
 
I'm also very unhappy with SE for terminating a person without warning them.
 
4:10 PM
@Mast Thanks!
 
@410_Gone When I was 13 I did get into a fist fight with someone who was insulting a black person. Didn't help much.
 
Maybe, maybe not. But I refuse to sit by and do nothing. I refuse to draw the expectation that "that's just the way it is, some things will never change."
 
JAD
4:24 PM
@pacmaninbw I'm relatively new on CR :)
 
So, we have a system down at work, which is impacting my ability to get stuff done.... so I thought I would hang out ;-)
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Monking ;-)
 
@rolfl What else can you do when a system is down?
 
Monking
 
monking
 
@pacmaninbw Go home? Unfortunately I have to pick up a kid from school in a few hours, and I don't want to back-track to get him.
 
4:27 PM
ohhh I always wanted to say that to the monkey king
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For those who are wondering, I have $0.02 to share about what I anticipate happening with regards to the CoC changes, and how it relates to Code Review.....
(for peole like @410_Gone .... this may help/hinder your decision making).
 
I'm turning purple from holding my breath waiting for your revelation.
 
Fundamentally, you'll have a choice, do you get active in these meta issues in the wider SE community, or do you just hold yourself to just CR and it's smaller community, or do you back away completely.
(Note, that decision is completely independent of how you feel about the CoC changes and the LGBTQ+ issues, and so on ... it's a case of how much exposure you want).
If you deal with meta issues, you're going to be immersed in the craziness for a while.
If you keep yourself to Code Review, there will be very little impact, with the occasional "spat" as someone (probably not a regular) makes a scene, one way or the other.
If you back away completely, well, you get none of it.
I suspect that the Code Review community is going to be minimally impacted by the CoC change. We all typically follow the be-nice policy anyway, and we're a great place to be.
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So, for those who are on SE mostly for Code Review, I recommend you just keep on doing business as usual.
As a moderator, you don't get to make that choice as easily. You don't have the option of avoiding these conflicts.
So, my resignation is mostly for that reason.... but that's not really going to impact my Code Review activity.... I am happy to be in that second group .... step away from the meta crap, avoid any conflicts related to the craziness, and stay in the nice Code Review bubble.
In the past few weeks, there has only been once incident related to the meta issues that's appeared on the main site at all, and that was discussions about the meta events in comments on the main site. Those comments were cleared out, and moved on.
Anyway, my expectation is that the most significant impact in Code Review of the turmoil is going to be found in this chat room.... so, someone is going to have to decide whether this room considers the more meta SE issues to be "General discussion about codereview.stackexchange.com - Welcome to The 2nd Monitor! codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5967/… - Site Business always comes first"
It's in this room that I anticipate the discussions where emotions get high, where disruptive users can come to get a rise out of others (trolls), and where they'll get the most immediate feedback (instant gratification).
 
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Q: C++ Readers-Writers Lock implementation - ThreadSanitizer is unhappy

KazadeI'm working on a platform which only has (shaky) support for C++11 so I wrote my own implementation of shared_mutex using the Wikipedia description of the readers-writers lock algorithm. class shared_mutex { public: shared_mutex() = default; shared_mutex(const shared_mutex& rhs) = delete...

 
JAD
4:50 PM
@rolfl and in case some people feel very strongly about being able to discuss the meta-happenings, another chatroom can easily be made I suppose
 
Oh yes, a couple of clicks.
 
@JAD It's one of the fuzzy things that will probably be hard to contain. Should it be pushed in to meta.stackexchange since it's something that really affects the broader community, should it be on non-CR chat rooms, or a dedicated chat room on CR, or this more general one. It's probably a combination of all the above.
I would strongly suggest though that conversations about the policies in general are encouraged to be moved out of here.... and only places where it has actually impacted Code Review specifically should be in here.
 
@rolfl Probably worth reviving The Nth to allow it to be more easily had there.
 
@410_Gone Ugh, that reminds me of a day ~5 years ago where in this chatroom we had some users with.... very unpleasant profile pictures entering. A lot of them. Someone(?) was trolling Stack Exchange and created a number of user profiles on multiple sites and that joined multiple chat rooms. The 2nd Monitor was one of the chat rooms that was most disturbed by this activity.
 
I got lots of meta-rep at that time....
 
4:53 PM
@410_Gone Though, either way, I've said my piece.
 
JAD
@rolfl It depends on a couple of factors I think. As long as all sides/participants of the chatroom are comfortable with the discussion taking place, I don't see much difference compared to other off-topic discussions. OTOH, if the room is going to be used by "outsiders" to troll/flame/etc, that's not ok (but wouldn't be in another room either).
 
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Q: Flag offensive user profile

rolflThis has been raised many times, and marked duplicate, but recent circumstances have not been the same as before (I believe), and it is time to revisit the question with a different perspective... especially since there was debate in the linked MSO question as to whether the MSO question itself i...

 
@SimonForsberg That is unfortunate. Seems like a non-negligible chunk of SE users are just A-holes.
 
JAD
with those kinds of things, sadly it only takes one :/
 
@410_Gone This wasn't really "a chunk of SE users", this was an attack by some TOR users. These users did not previously exist on SE.
 
4:55 PM
I meant what I said.
 
They created profiles where the image of the profile was offensive, and had no other real activity, nothing to flag.... just Urgh.
 
Regardless of that event, the point stands, and is easily verifiable.
 
JAD
It might still be true, but it's off to conclude it based on that message :P
 
They would then join chat rooms.... and pretty much do nothing, except be visible.
 
JAD
but don't you need rep to chat?
 
4:56 PM
@rolfl I assume they didn't have enough rep to do anything.
 
JAD
or only to talk?
 
Nope. No posts to flag, not chat messages to flag, just .... a picture on your screen.
 
Were there no rep limit, I'd assume there would have been a much different issue.
 
Jan 28 '14 at 13:47, by Simon André Forsberg
@Jamal !!!!!!!!!!! Get rid of that username for us please!?
^^ history
I flagged my own message in chat and suddenly the room were crowding with mods.
 
JAD
oh yeah
 
5:01 PM
@SimonForsberg Before my time
 
JAD
that reminds me of a time where I flagged a conversation on IPS for mods, not realising that it was a global ping, instead of a flag queue for the IPS mods
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@410_Gone Be happy about that.
 
I mean, I was here for the CP Mod so I'm not sure how 'happy' I can really be.
 
JAD
CP?
 
Child pictures that no one should ever have.
We'll leave it at that.
 
JAD
5:03 PM
gotcha
 
5:41 PM
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6:36 PM
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it should be on Code Review instead. — EJoshuaS 11 secs ago
 
@rolfl lucky you
 
6:56 PM
@Peilonrayz sorry, I didn't mean that comment to come off as aggressive or anything. I do find your answer questions the legitimacy of my moderatorship and denies the 2015 election results or otherwise considers them irrelevant to me being reinstated - but the point is, I couldn't have been reinstated if I hadn't been duly elected in the first place. So, not rude per se, but yes, there's an element in it that I find mildly annoying...
...perhaps enough to make my comment come off as a bit dry (but aggressive? nah)
 
Don't see anything wrong with the answer. Don't necessarily agree with it, but no problem. No problem with Mat's comment either. Storm in a glass water this all?
 
well it's relatively easy to be construed as "I hope you're only here temporarily and get back to your hole when elections happen", but whatever
I mean, I was kind of anticipating this kind of reaction, and that's all on me for not being as active on CR as I could have been
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Aren't all former moderators who left in good standing open to return to moderator status at any time they are interested in doing so by Network-wide rules?
 
yes
#mod4life
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:)
 
7:12 PM
@MathieuGuindon Please don't ping me in chat. Thank you.
 
sorry, won't happen again.
 
More drama? :/
 
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