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2:31 AM
Of all the people I've ever known who ever wrote a computer program, no one ever asked for a word for anything...ever. You know they could just as easily use "butface" as any word that is suggested. So, why...try under those circumstances; I don't get it.
 
So...what are you saying?
That variable names don't matter?
 
 
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Q: Ransom-note problems with IPA and Greek under new font stacks

tchristAt the top of the still-unanswered MSE post Please consider Linux users when designing templates with the Georgia font, we read: When considering the so-called "web safe fonts", Georgia is one of the most distinctive typefaces out there. This means that it cannot be easily dealt-with with a g...

@Robusto ^^^^^^ Yet another installment of the neverending saga of trying to teach typography, or web stuff, or something, to the masses.
 
4:51 AM
It is interesting that typography, typology, topography, and topology are all words.
 
 
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5:58 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching product name in body, pattern-matching website in body, +2 more (493): Pure Keto BHB — Effective Weight Loss Where to buy? by defsniseilva on english.SE
 
 
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10:33 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +6 more (887): topsupplementlist.com/vascular-x/ by Henryronald on english.SE
 
 
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12:47 PM
@Jasper Also graphology and logograph, but not topotype or typotope
 
1:10 PM
@tchrist does this help?
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Q: -webkit-text-size-adjust is no longer supported,how to set font-size to less than 12px

yizeWhen I update my chrome to 28.0.1500.11 dev-m, I found that: -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; is no longer supported,and I found the changlist here http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/145168 It`s not work in chrome when I set the CSS like this: font-size:10px;//number less than 12 In chrome (ve...

 
For the ransom note problem?
I think Chrome won't honor font-size-adjust
I’ve also just learned about -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale to go along with -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased. Man, the web is crap.
In other news, I had a closer encounter with of the ursine kind this morning.
 
with of?
 
Went out before dawn, saw the trash was tipped over but not violated (is oso-proof), smelled something foul, walked ten yards down the sidewalk and there was a big black bear defecating in the street a few yards in front.
 
1:43 PM
Bears are the exemplars of "not to be fucked with" ...
 
@Robusto I should have paid attention to the cats. They were continuously going to the windows in a hunched guarded position. Erlkönig-like, I kept telling them that it was just the wind whistling, that there was nothing there.
 
 
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3:06 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, mostly dots in body (142): %^&*().&*()(*&^%^&*(*&^&*(*&^&*&^&*&* ✏️ by Dick Brown on english.SE
 
 
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4:13 PM
@Cerberus I guess what I'm saying...I find it troubling when someone who really needs a real word for a real sentence is put on hold for some reason, valid as that may be, while someone who just needs an arrangement of characters (concise, distinct, easily remembered--big plus) is taken so seriously.
 
4:44 PM
@Mitch Ha-ha! Well, something has been surely lost in those movies. So, yesterday, I was googling in the HS visitor parking lot (waiting to pick up a friend's daughter), disregarding all Pride and Prejudice results and, at the same time, noticing for the first time that the building I was parked beside was named after the English teacher who told us that we'd have all the vocabulary we needed if we read all of Jane...Eyre (the book) or Austen (the author)? No matter...resume googling.
 
@KannE Guessing cool identifiers for programming thingies is a never-ending task to which the SE format is ill-suited. It is my position that SWRs far too easily, and far too often, fall into the same category. Not always, though.
From the SE Community Management team:
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A: On Answering Word Requests

Jon EricsonYou know the parable of the mechanic's hammer? I kinda feel like single word answers are the same sorta thing: it's not how much effort it takes to produce the answer so much as knowing the perfect answer in the first place. However . . . in the parable, the ship owner can immediately evaluate w...

Parabolic answers are especially refreshing after so many hyperbolic ones.
 
5:01 PM
@Cerberus It's not likely that Congress would form strong coalitions to oppose Bolsonaro, since the majority of the members have strong affiliations with the Far-right. It's also a very fragmented institution: tens of parties hold seats in Congress, many of which don't have clear manifestos or platforms and are all about money, power, and corruption. That's why the public has lost all faith in the legislature ...
 
@Mitch I preferred John Steinbeck's settings...or whatever it is that makes you think you're really there watching...like backed in a corner hoping no one notices you and you don't get involved in that mess somehow...like being behind a camera filming a chimp with a machine gun, ha-ha, really.
 
@Cerberus ... and that's why the alternative that Bolsonaro presents has such a wide appeal for so many people, especially the middle class. And that alternative is to vest more power in the military and militant vigilantes and commission them to eradicate the rampant corruption and stamp out the violence from the streets with total impunity.
So Bolsonaro is presenting the military as a viable alternative to the present system of broken executive and legislative branches, and it's possible that that happens.
But what solutions the military could offer to resolve these issues and how effective or otherwise they could be, is not too hard to guess. This additional power could even drag the military deeper in the corruption and cause it to transform from within.
The judiciary has been disproportionately focusing on the PT as the popular Leftist party and the Left in general for the past years and turned a blind eye to other parties, which are certainly not rife with criminal activities and corruption any less than the Left, in a way that left the door open for the Far-right to encroach on the Center and consume what's left after the destruction and derailment of the Left.
So even if some of them do want to preclude Bolsonaro from making drastic changes in the political system, it might be too late.
So this is an absolute tragedy, and you have a perfect right to be worried for the future of Brazil.
One wonders what circumstances could have driven a people who voted for left-of-center governments four consecutive times to make such a desperate and drastic turnabout towards fascism.
Much of what I just said, and a compelling attempt at the above mystery, are explained in this interview with a Brazilian economist based in the UK: blubrry.com/thedig/38694344/… I downloaded the audio and listened to it today.
 
Hi Faerd
Who's Bolsonaro?
 
@Cerberus I know you're more of an article-reader than a podcast-listener, but this was worthwhile, comprehensive, and informative for me from a historical, political, demographic, and economic point of view. I can't vouch for every point that he makes tho. It'd take me some time to fact-check all he says.
@Zebrafish He's the fascist Brazilian presidential candidate who will most likely win the vote in the upcoming election.
And hi! :)
 
$hit
 
5:11 PM
nods in approval
 
@Færd About you wondering how things can flip to a right-wing populist leader so easily, I thought that was quite normal. Either the right or left take control, things veer so far off the road, people realise, and there's a massive backlash in the opposite direction, often extreme
 
You have a point there.
 
I thought that's what's been happening in America, Bush and Republicans in office, start a war, people then vote liberal Democrat, then after a few years vote an absolute idiot demagogue into power, stuff swings like that.... it's the biggest shame
 
But that analysis doesn't account for the fact that the right and the left are not symmetrical opposite points of a spectrum that act in similar ways and are equally likely to mess things up and pave the way for the other to seize the power.
If things go right, more democracy and justice and equality does please the voting community more.
Making for a stronger public base that ensures re-election.
But that's only on paper.
 
yeah that's true... I'm not sure, I think a lot of conservatives are taken aback at how much movement there's been with political correctness, treatment of gays... economic approaches, then they get angry....
I would be angry too if I thought people were screwing up society and the country... just saying, that's what they think, and they feel they have to fight for their way of life. People are just scared of change... and you get these backlashes
 
5:17 PM
@Zebrafish Yes, that's another factor: how should the Left appease or navigate the conservative demands of large demographics of the community.
But most people do not take hardcore lines on these issues as their central concern.
 
@Færd Well it's kind of an impasse because the two groups have completely opposing ideas. By the way I know nothing about Brazil, so I don't know what the issues are that are in contention
 
Brazil, in general, is a very conservative society.
But the quality of live and making a decent living is the priority of the public everywhere you go.
 
@Færd You're right, most people don't take hardcore lines, but unfortunately both the right and left can get crazy. The right crazy for obvious reasons, the left crazy by taking the ideology of political correctness and tolerance to ridiculous extremes, then you get groups like antifa, who actually train in combat to fight against anyone who opposes their view, mainly because they feel the other side is a threat to humanity
 
... that's why the Workers' Party won four consecutive governments and also improve the rights of women, LGBT, etc on the side.
 
> Russian Nitrogen expands exports (Would this look okay as a headline? I feel that it does not look natural)
 
5:22 PM
@Zebrafish Antifa make the dreams of the far-righters come true.
It's obviosuly counter-productive in my eyes.
So you're right about that.
 
> [Company name] export shipments on the rise (looks a bit better as a headline)
 
Hmm, my connection was lost..... maybe I said something Big Brother didn't like
@CowperKettle They all look good to me. Sorry, that's not much help
 
@Zebrafish Ah, thanks!
 
@CowperKettle Haha, thank you for your kindness. I didn't really offer anything of value, haha
Ummm, "expands exports"..... let me check google
except i'm also flying a plane... so it's a bit hard
 
@KannE Ah, okay, well, I believe asking for variable names is explicitly forbidden here?
@Færd I'll read everything later!
 
5:36 PM
@KannE 2 points:
1) The Brõntë sisters drool
2) Jane Austen rule....s
 
I wonder if there was sibling some serious sibling rivalry among the Bronte sisters
 
and pt three for those who cannot count, all that lady got was a building? How a bout a mural? That would be awesome
@Zebrafish Totally. "I'm going to write a book.". "No, I'm going to write a book" "quiet third runt writes book"
@tchrist The elliptic ones are the worst.
hahahhahhahahhhhaha
math joke for the win
 
If people dislike word requests so much.... why not separate it into its own section?, or have an option to exclude these questions from the list... like a filter
 
@Færd and all sorts of people talk about the meaning of it all and are able to plot out the terrible consequences of particular choices and it's like the vast populace doesn't care and just votes like they're voting for 8th grade student body president "He seems cool" "I don't like that lady's voice" "inchoate thoughts about foreigners that am unable to express even inarticulately I saw that guy on TV!"
@Zebrafish That has been mentioned but never proposed seriously because I think people unconsciously understand that it would be way too much work to implement because those who would vote to create such a thing don't want to participate.
 
@Zebrafish there is no way to separate a tag into its own section, but it is simple to filter out a tag, with the "ignore tag" feature
 
5:43 PM
Also, isn't there already a reddit forum for such things?
 
there's a reddit for everything
 
Oh. Section?
@MattE.Эллен is there a reddit for discussing redditness?
 
@Mitch probably, and one for discussing that discussion
 
if by 'reddit' you understand the synecdoche of being for a reddit section
@MattE.Эллен Nice
day made
 
I'd guess so, all the SE sites have sites discussing themselves don't they? the meta ones
 
I've 'tried' reddit. I don't know. I'm not sure I get it.
 
@MetaEd That's the one I'm visiting first!
 
@Mitch It's cat videos, like everything else.
 
it's metas all the way down!
 
@Mitch Haha, I'm not sure I get it, it sounds like you're talking about quantum entanglement or climate change. It's a forum, isn't it?
 
I looked into the abyss
directly
oops first take off sunglasses, it's al dark
now directly
there's really not much there there
@MattE.Эллен I went to my local butcher's basement
It's meats all the way down
@MetaEd Somehow in my daily partial consciousness, I never really ever saw the years and years and petabytes and petabytes of cat videos
not even one
 
@Mitch I went to a gathering of animal rights activists in a basement
It's petas all the way down
 
such natural-born killers and they're so cute
 
5:52 PM
@Zebrafish If you bypass the intervcooler and redirect the excess of chronotron particles into an anticollimated burst, you can engineer a flux in the space-time continuum and show up a half-minute earlier to that meeting... about how time-travel is impossible.
OMG chronotron is spellchecked? That's an effing real word!
 
@Mitch Is that legit or the fever dreams of a random guy?
 
@MetaEd Thank you!
Gracias!
Spasibo!
Xie xie!
Vielen Dank!
Meow!
 
/r/RatGifs is invite only!
 
@Cerberus I dunno...a lot of the rules changed (it seems) after I read them all (not all, of course, a goodly amount). I have to read them again now...or later, like the candy.
 
OMFG this place is crowded.
Shyly hides in a corner.
 
6:02 PM
@Mitch There are two of them!? When will this madness end?!...of them?!...end!?
 
Why is @Mitch speaking Russian all of a sudden. He can't even speak English.
Baby steps, people.
 
> But please, don’t ask any questions about the following topics. They are out of scope for this site.
...
- Naming, including naming programming variables/classes
 
Yes, asking for variable names is expressly off-topic for the very good reason that it has nothing to do with English. You can name your variable xKhabarovsk1253 for all the parser cares. That parser won't be a human.
 
I don't think it is necessarily unrelated to English.
But w'evs.
 
6:05 PM
It's once again the "what it theoretically could be" vs. "what it actually is in practice" thing.
We did start with no rules at all.
 
@RegDwigнt He's a Russian plant.
 
Naming variables was on-topic.
And then we saw what people do with that.
And so we decided we weren't having any of that ever again.
 
Hi, I need a good name for my new baby. Could you please help me?
 
That, too, we actually had quite a lot.
 
@RegDwigнt You've been noticed! By Cain or Abel or Jane Seymour...it's unclear...but it's gonna get messy.
 
6:07 PM
It beggars belief, but people will actually go and ask random strangers on the Internet, that they've never seen before and will never see again, what to name their flesh and blood.
 
Should I call my dog Fido in the vocative or accusative?
 
You should call it fado. And it should also be not a dog but a song. Hope that helps.
And with that I take my leave.
Your Beethoven thingie was nais, Tom. But so is this. Have a listen.
 
Never knew you spoke Nissart .
 
O Fidos, ton Fido
maybe
 
@RegDwigнt That stuff will make you depressed enough to drink.
 
6:17 PM
@tchrist whenever you see some weird shit, it is always the safer of two choices to assume I'm fluent in it.
That's what I'm doing anyway.
@tchrist oh I've been drinking for two hours now. Only just warming up.
 
You Niçart, you!
 
@Cerberus Thanks for the link.
 
@Cerberus Me. I deletes accountses every day.
 
@MattE.Эллен I went to a bar downstairs in Madrid
It was tapas all the way down
 
@tchrist I don't believe account is a type of fish, Sméagol.
 
6:20 PM
smells like spam
fix by destroy
 
Thanks.
 
@Zebrafish Uh... duh...I misspelled intercoolr and that's about it.
 
I rubbed some on my body this morning.
 
you rubbed spam on your body?
 
Finally an MSE post they aren't all hating on me for.
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Q: Ransom-note problems with IPA and Greek under new font stacks

tchristWhen you stitch together letters from multiple typefaces, your text begins to resemble a ransom note that pastes together cut-outs from different newspapers and magazines:                               ɪᴍᴀɢᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ: specimen sample of Chris Hansen’s free Ransom Note font It turns out that we’r...

 
6:21 PM
@RegDwigнt Oh Hey Everybody It's REG OVER HERE!
 
@MattE.Эллен Do I look Hawai`ian to you?
 
Who would be hating you?
 
@tchrist I'm going to say no, but I@m open to being proven wrong
 
(I had already voted for your question.)
@MattE.Эллен I was hungry.
 
@Mitch Wait...were there more than two...maybe four, one couldn't write, one died tragically at a young age...or was that Little Women? Resume googling...
 
6:22 PM
The smell got me through the day.
 
@Cerberus and forgot where your mouth was?
@Cerberus lol
 
@Cerberus New parents don't like it if you find their baby other than attractive.
 
That, too.
I'm not a clean eater.
@tchrist So the parents would be the SE people?
 
@RegDwigнt I went to see the movie "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid"
 
But I don't really see them expressing any opinion.
 
6:23 PM
Baby, steps people.
 
I've burnt my bridges.
Telling web designers they don't know typography and all.
Well, they don't.
It hurt people's feelings.
 
@tchrist Specifically, a ficus.
 
"Honey, I threw the baby out with the bath water and now I have to lay in this bed I made"
 
@KannE I'm pretty sure 3 brontesauruses, 5 little women, and ... counts toes ... 6 little rascals?
Spanky, ... and all those others
 
@Mitch that's a good one. But then I went to see "Honey, I blew all your friends" and that one was even better.
 
6:28 PM
@MattE.Эллен An té a luíonn le madaí, eiroidh sé le dearnaid.
if you know what I mean
 
That one works better in German, but wevs, suck it up, English.
 
@Mitch I don't, even with Google translate
 
@tchrist lucky you, you had bridges.
 
@MattE.Эллен I know! The auto-discoverers don't work yet with Irish
 
I have but my lifetime to burn through. And then people can go, "fucking hell, that guy was awesome, why he dead now".
 
6:29 PM
@Mitch oh, it does
 
@tchrist Thanks for this link.
 
@Mitch pfft. Greenhorn. Everyone knows to not use auto-discoverers on the Irish. Everyone knows to use potatoes.
 
@MattE.Эллен I just tried it with google translate, and yeah it does now. The twitter one doesn't (which is Bing Translate)
 
ah, Bing translate. that's even worse than Google Translate
 
That is not possible.
I know that for a fact because only I am worse than Google Translate. And I am not Bing. I am Reg.
 
6:32 PM
Facebook has bing translate embedded, and it tries to auto translate things that are already in English into English but assuming it's another language
 
@RegDwigнt Where I come from, 'greenhorn' is a kitchen implement. One of those weird thingies that only does one thing, and then when you have just that one thing to do, you can't find it.
Is this some kind of metaphor?
Is there some kind of message?
 
@Mitch where I come from, men don't know what a kitchen is.
 
@MattE.Эллен That sounds so wrong!
 
@Cerberus that's what Rick Moranis said when I pitched it too him.
 
This one really got people's knickers in a snit:
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Q: Static, unchanging font size, leading, and measure incompatible with dynamics of responsive design

tchristIn the new, would-be “responsive” design, the actual font size used does not vary as a function of the width of the viewport. Neither do any of the other measures that should in turn be scaled as a function of the font size, such as line-spacing or letter-spacing. That means the same invariant f...

 
6:34 PM
@RegDwigнt Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
 
@MattE.Эллен It's lie!
 
@Cerberus I was not sure which to choose, but you could be right
 
Five downvotes.
 
@MattE.Эллен nice
 
@Mitch because Enrique Iglésias sang about heroes and I thought he should be relegated to the realm of the dead.
 
6:35 PM
@Cerberus No, that's a lie.
 
@Mitch I told it to stop doing that, so now it "helpfully" offers "translate from Chinese"
 
@tchrist where do you even get that free time. Serious question, I could use some. My supply is running dry.
 
@RegDwigнt Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A bucket from a pail?
 
@MattE.Эллен I was hoping you'd think I had a problem with the throwing the baby away. But alas!
 
I could be a hero baby
 
6:37 PM
Did you exchange walk on part in Cabaret for a lead role instead of Nick Cage?
 
@tchrist Also had my up-vote already.
 
@Cerberus I'm pro-choice
 
I see.
Does the choice include a choice of weapon?
 
@Mitch That's a trick question. I could easily tell them apart if there were any difference.
For starters, they are all spelled exactly the same.
 
yes, you can have any weapon so long as it's a pool noodle
 
6:38 PM
All my noodles are pool. All my non-pools are not noodle.
 
@RegDwigнt The difference is in the pay. I thought that was clear.
 
@Mitch I read the history of those sisters before for whatever reason...but I forgot it like it was on Netflix or something. Quickly skimming...maybe 5 sisters, 2 died, 3 were changed by it, literally; 1 brother did something probably.
 
@Mitch pay is just how gay people spell gay.
 
New snarky things to say to lovers who are breaking up with you: "I'll forgot this like it was on Netflix"
 
6:41 PM
@KannE The brother had no talent so he became the manager.
 
Netflix is for people who never want to watch anything but want to spend all their time looking for things to watch.
 
@RegDwigнt ugh... "Did you watch anything on Netflix last night?" "I watched every single thumbnail on Netflix."
 
"I spent four hours on Netflix last night". "Cool, what did you watch?" "I just told you, Netflix".
Fuck, jinxed by the one whose name etc.
 
haha
If it's any consolation, all spelling errors get preserved to infinity on the starred list.
 
Until seven years from now someone randomly goes and messes with the starred list.
 
6:44 PM
@Mitch if 0 counts as any
 
@MattE.Эллен I'm sure there's a Schoolhouse Rock for Zero
oh yeah. Zero the Hero.
so the answer is yes
 
"My Hero, Zero"
 
Welcome to the nineties.
 
un poquitito momentito
 
6:45 PM
You misspelled ahorítica.
 
You mumblefrotz my last name.
 
@RegDwigнt Oralé bitches
 
@RegDwigнt I cussed out all the cable-dish-fiber people; I have no choice now...but I liked the Adam Sandler show even though I tried not to.
 
how you like them pings?
@RegDwigнt Wait... the woman from Terminator is a singer... in the show ?
 
Rumpled Still Skin
 
6:52 PM
Crumpled Still Wind
 
7:06 PM
@Mitch Yes! Now I won't have to say, "I'll change you like socks," ever again.
@Mitch I've been looking for a job like that all my life... My mother should've had more children.
 
Aug 27 at 14:16, by Mitch
Cats don't care. If they were a little bigger and us a little smaller, we'd be prey.
@KannE The moral I get from that is that you don't seem to change your socks very often.
 
7:26 PM
@Mitch Yes, I haven't said that in over 20 years, mostly in the 90s because socks were unpopular in the 80s...except knee socks, briefly, with kilts and Shetland sweaters...and penny loafers...because, at that time, none of us had been to Scotland in a hundred years or so. Who knows?
 
7:55 PM
@Zebrafish I love word requests...and that's about it really, but struggling all day to understand a question which could've been as easy as: What's a good action verb meaning to hide? Hide. Bye. I still haven't fully recovered...
 
8:07 PM
@Mitch well what would you do when you've rid of all the terminators. Nothing much left to do really other than to sing a song about robots.
 
8:49 PM
"What would you do"...if you pooped batteries...would you melt in a steel factory...
 
 
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@RegDwigнt I was expecting a video from you this week, but no video yet, lol. Maybe you can do some singing too.
 

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