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GratefulDisciple

00:19

@tchrist Yes, I just realized that the difference can be 1-3 hours this Sunday during the wee hours. I'm just asking about "behind" in general. Thanks.

tchrist

@GratefulDisciple Even today Mountain Time is behind Mountain Time: Phoenix is an hour behind Denver, but both are in Mountain Time. Just not the same Mountain Time. Phoenix is on Mountain Standard Time but Denver on Mountain Daylight Time. Which also means that Phoenix's Mountain Time is not ahead of your own Pacific Time. Today and tomorrow, that is, but no longer so after the fox clucks.

alphabet

00:47

Also known as International Broken Cronjob Day.

GratefulDisciple

02:09

@tchrist Oh yes, completely forgot about Arizona.

@alphabet I wonder why Cronjob is not set in terms of Unix epoch time?

alphabet

@GratefulDisciple We like to pretend those strings of asterisks and numbers are human-readable. They kind of are, sometimes.

GratefulDisciple

@alphabet The syntax is not that hard. Foud that the default timezone of the cronjob is the server's timezone. Those who have broken cronjob must have set the server time to other than UTC.

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Q: What time zone is a cron job using?

I'm guessing there's a difference between my PHP time and the server time. When I check the current time in PHP, it's showing that MST is being used. However, cron jobs aren't running at the correct time. How can I check to see what timezone the server itself is using, not what PHP is set to u...

SmokeDetector

05:50

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (49): "Over the years" in this context‭ by user_user‭ on english.SE

CowperKettle

06:02

CowperKettle

06:13

> At Harvard, Kennedy continued his experimentation with heroin and cocaine, often with his brother David, earning a reputation that has been described as a "pied piper" and "drug dealer".

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group that is a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. He is on the ballot in some states as an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of the U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and a nephew of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy...

> On September 16, 1983, Kennedy was charged with heroin possession.. [..] worked as a volunteer for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and was required to attend regular drug-rehabilitation sessions.[37] Kennedy asserted that this ended his 14 years of heroin use, which he said had begun when he was 15.[33]

Fourteen years of heroin use.

SmokeDetector

06:35

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (49): "for a while" in this context‭ by user_user‭ on english.SE

SmokeDetector

07:10

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (47): "all-time favourite book" v. "all-time-favourite book"‭ by Westyy‭ on english.SE

alphabet

12:27

@CowperKettle Hey, as long as your heroin is free of mercury and endocrine disrupters, you'll be fine.

Conrado

12:59

What's the best place to start to learn xpath?

I just spent over an hour yesterday trying to query an xml document using xmllint/xmlstarlet (extracting the product table from the tax service regulatory invoices), and it wouldn't return anything, because I didn't know how to specify the namespace.

Also, why couldn't baeldung or w3schools tutorials have included the "_" to mean local namespace?

I finally found what I needed at this answer on superuser.

jlliagre

13:18

@Conrado I'm voting to close your question as off-topic ;-)

Robusto

14:15

#travle #689 +1
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https://travle.earth

alphabet

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Nov. 2, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 1360

Grr. Not my day, nor was yesterday.

Robusto

14:35

#WhenTaken #249 (02.11.2024)

I scored 713/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 7527 km - 🗓️ 9 yrs - ⚡ 97 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 177 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 192 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 195 km - 🗓️ 20 yrs - ⚡ 148 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 7718 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 100 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 3 km - 🗓️ 13 yrs - ⚡ 176 / 200

https://whentaken.com

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Nov. 2, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 1740

jlliagre

#WhenTaken #249 (02.11.2024)

I scored 934/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 529 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 182 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 284 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 183 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 183 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 191 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 3 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 193 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 185 / 200

https://whentaken.com

Robusto

Daily Octordle #1013
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jlliagre

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Nov. 2, 2024

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My Score: 1890

#travle #689 +0 (Perfect)
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https://travle.earth

Wordle 1,232 4/6

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Robusto

Daily Sequence Octordle #1013
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jlliagre

Daily Octordle #1013
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Robusto

14:46

Wordle 1,232 4/6

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A mixed bag.

MetaEd

16:08

Wordle 1,232 4/6

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Robusto

16:25

> Works of art make rules. Rules don't make works of art. —Claude Debussy

tchrist

Did you ever consider a frame challenge based on a category error instead of digging up exotic rarities? I bet you would have done so, and quickly, had the question asked for the “past participle” of words like all-knowing, bling, cottaging, sibling, middling, pudding, duckling, earthling, fun-loving, fair-seeming, ever-loving, good-looking, snow-bunting (not to mention Kate Bunting :), or for the “present participle” of words like astroturfed, bigoted, bikinied, crestfallen, firstborn, forlorn, horn-rimmed, double-axled. able-bodied, base-born, store-bought, ill-gotten. — tchrist ♦ 11 mins ago

And no fair looking to Old or Middle English to find a forlorn present participle or gerund. :)

Another ringer, at least in Modern English, would be unkempt.

Just because words have endings that on their surface look the same as those used in verbal participial inflections does not necessarily mean there must always exist some base verb you can then use to infer other such reflexes.

Children eager for new siblings should encourage their parents to sible more often.

It's been years since I've fun-loved Halloween parties.

She was still bikinying long after snow had fallen all around.

As soon as Mom said yesterday that she wasn't decorating his birthday cake this year, Billy crestfell immediately and still hasn't recovered.

We're sad to report that Trump is bigoting just as much after he lost his last election as he'd been prior to his stunning loss.

Mitch

16:52

@tchrist well now you're just giving good excuses for filling a much needed gap.

tchrist

@Mitch That's your suggest, not mine own.

But far be it from me to dissuade you from giving a good provide here.

Stealth persuades are always better side fits than blue ones in this talltailor's tale.

Any fool can and does zero derive unnilled neologisms that nobody will ever care about, but only a genius's bubbling imagine can Jabberwock new lexemes from the unnothed vacuum.

Ever wonder why SE’s official network-wide policy won't let you astroturf? Because we don't want you to secretly spim us with your products, that's why.

tchrist

17:30

What makes you think that the ‘ﬁrst symbol is obviously “c,” ’ there? Are you saying that some comma or cedille following the letter C got floated up to the top of the base letter instead of staying put at the bottom like with ⟨ꝣ⟩, the Visigothic Zet? — tchrist ♦ 9 mins ago

This public service message brought to you by the department of fallacious compliance.

Or from the department of beyond the pale palaeography and printing.

I'm afraid the weefils are gaining on us.

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Q: What animal is a “weefil”?

What animal is depicted in this image labelled “weefil”?

typography early-modern-english image-identification

Robusto

18:28

Germany | Can you solve this? | Math Olympiad Find x=?, y=?

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Hint: Just because the square root of -1 is an imaginary number doesn't mean you can't use it in the real world.

M.A.R.

18:43

@CowperKettle makes you wonder about these narcissists that make people suffer; how much is the heroin and coke they snort to blame, and how much is because they were already rotten from the start?

M.A.R.

19:00

@tchrist just how many of those long s questions (whatever it's called) are scattered around ELU I wonder

tchrist

19:34

@M.A.R. Unclear, especially how hard it is to search for longassed questions longassing.

They say there's a 43-point Trump-vs-Harris spread between uneducated menx and educated womenx right now. Hardly a recipe for domestic tranquility, that. Are we due for a baby bust?

Dannyu NDos

19:53

Korean idiom of the day: Rice bows its head as it ripens — means that actual experts show modesty.

jlliagre

20:05

@Robusto Spoiler

Mitch

@Robusto well shit negative numbers don't exist in the real world.

-zero- doesn't exist in the real world

one is arguably not much of a number.

Dannyu NDos

@Mitch -1°C?

Though, yeah, no numbers exist in this reality. I cannot give you the one itself.

Robusto

20:39

@jlliagre Yeah, I did that under a pre-coffee haze while waiting for oatmeal to cook.

alphabet

@M.A.R. In 30 years, colleges will have to start teaching cursive classes to anyone who wants to study historical documents.

Robusto

@Mitch Numbers don't exist in the real world anyway. Jokes about them do, though.

alphabet

@tchrist Start a charity helping Harris-voting wives looking to leave their Trump-voting husbands.

Then sell their newly-divorced husbands AI-powered virtual girlfriends designed to agree with them on every political issue.

I wonder when we'll get the first sensationalized news story about some schmuck leaving their spouse for a chatbot. Maybe in 6-12 months?

Robusto

@alphabet Those dudes think The Stepford Wives was about a fantasy paradise.

alphabet

20:55

@Robusto It seems to be a reasonably large portion of the population, especially if you include husbands who will only do housework that their wives "assign" to them.

Robusto

At least those guys are doing something. A lot of the other ones truly believe they are kings of their castle.

alphabet

@Robusto We should start an annual "At Least I Did Something" award for the most self-congratulatory spouses.

Robusto

But it would have to be a participation award.

alphabet

@Robusto I wonder how those guys survived when they were single. (I'd say "people" but I think it's 99% men.)

Robusto

21:31

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Betelgeuse Has Just EXPLODED & Something TERRIFYING Is Happening Now!"

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Generated by AI or just a really shit video? You be the judge.

I mean, what's with the potato rotating? How is that about astronomy?

Smells like AI Teen Spirit to me.

Also clickbait.

Mitch

22:55

@Robusto 17

😂

OMG

I love that one.

I realize it's in poor taste to laugh at your own joke but that one is

😂

Sorry can't stop

@alphabet probably -20 years? Chat it's have been around for awhile. Replika 10 years at least one that has had ... paramours. And that's long enough for somebody to have already driven themselves to split up with somebody.

An actual instance? No idea

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