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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

15:00

Oliver Cloushoff.

RegDwigнt

His rates are quite high.

tchrist

Six o’ nine, half a Borg of your mother.

Robusto

@Tonepoet That's adorable.

RegDwigнt

Not a durable, however.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Mosquito, Moscato.

RegDwigнt

15:01

Let's call some parts of the thing off.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Meeting.

RegDwigнt

Be like that.

user116848

Oh ma gawd.

user116848

I got a very cool ping. And I'm late to the party it seems.

Robusto

Happy Hour is over. No more free drinks.

user116848

15:10

heh.

Tonepoet

Norm Peterson, Barney Gumble and Suika Ibuki have left the chat-room. Homer Simpson's continued presence is pendent upon the availability of free doughnuts.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

Pacman donuts hunting down themselves?

Johan Larsson

tchrist

Doughnuts pendant.

Doughnut pendants.

Johan Larsson

15:17

He does not check his rep very often.

RegDwigнt

OMG

Y U H8 reading?

tchrist

@JohanLarsson Whose view is that now?

user116848

Holy crap.

RegDwigнt

It's not like I have never ignored 2067 people, it's just that I click on that number once a day to get it down to zero.

skill patrol

Does seem strange.

RegDwigнt

15:21

Who you gonna call?

skill patrol

Commie busters

Perhaps a sock puppet account?

RegDwigнt

Pup socket.

Pop, suck it.

Robusto

Suck, pop it.

RegDwigнt

Once you pop, you can't suck.

Johan Larsson

@tchrist don't understand

tchrist

15:25

@JohanLarsson Is that you?

RegDwigнt

No, then he wouldn't have said "he does not check his rep".

Johan Larsson

No, I have only 5k

RegDwigнt

Yeah and then there's that.

Cerberus

Johan Larsson

Got 15 two days ago.

RegDwigнt

15:26

Johan just does not have 2067 friends. Or enemies.

Cerberus

I think that screenshot is a Photoshop.

Who has that many reps, and misspells my name?

RegDwigнt

Bill Gates?

tchrist

@JohanLarsson Maybe it's Brad Larson?

Kinda hard to imagine a moderator never looking at his inbox.

Johan Larsson

17319

A: Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

You are a victim of branch prediction fail. What is Branch Prediction? Consider a railroad junction: Image by Mecanismo, via Wikimedia Commons. Used under the CC-By-SA 3.0 license. Now for the sake of argument, suppose this is back in the 1800s - before long distance or radio communication...

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus also I am noticing your three-headed nature makes you genericize your nouns to the extent of them getting an indefinite article and yet keeping the capital.

tchrist

15:28

Too many digits!

@RegDwigнt ’Tis because he likes his piñas bien coladas.

RegDwigнt

@JohanLarsson Yeah what gives. Branch prediction is my daily bread and butter. Where's my OVER 9000 reps?

tchrist

Branch prediction is a topic that has ramifications for everyone.

RegDwigнt

There's just no way an answer to any question on any site of any net is worth 170k imaginary points.

tchrist

is surprised it’s unlocked

RegDwigнt

Least of all an answer that is not about God or Buddha or how women work.

> Since I'm the current world record holder for the most digits of pi, I'll add my two cents

OMG I know someone famous who once visited the same website as I did.

Well, technically he's not famous at all. But still.

I shall celebrate by muting over several commies.

Robusto

15:40

@RegDwigнt Then there's just no way any answer is worth any points at all in a voting system. If it can be worth one point, it can be worth n points.

crl

@tchrist I did

Johan Larsson

23 hours ago, by Johan Larsson

triple sauna today, think it is a first

@Cerberus ^ perhaps even more impressive than some rep.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Yes, I don't believe there is a hard rule about capitals in such cases...

@JohanLarsson Yes, a triple sauna is quite impressive.

Are saunas good or bad for your skin?

Johan Larsson

15:57

no idea

Robusto

Is sex good or bad for your skin? Who cares?

Cerberus

Very good question.

tchrist

@Robusto Castrati don't suffer from alopecia.

Robusto

That's not to say they don't have sex.

user116848

Robusto

16:58

Second things second and nth things nth: "Is it" instead of "is is"; "between" instead of "betwwen"; "two adjectives" instead of "to adjectives"; and put a period at the end of your sentence. — Robusto 25 secs ago

Tonepoet

Zero halves is still zero so they are both dumb as a rock apparently. =P

crl

17:46

@Robusto they call it 'out of saddle', seems a more common expression for it

(old message reference)

Robusto

@crl Yeah, "honking" is older, from when I was just getting into serious cycling in my thirties.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

18:53

two-scoops

@tchrist that's fantastic. How?

tchrist

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Microsoft Unicode bug.

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Q: He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)

For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days... Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to be a jerk) How should we proceed?

MετάEd

20:31

@tchrist Gorgo, Mormo, thousand-faced moon, look favourably on our sacrifices!

crl

20:56

perpetual motion is a lie :(

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

So are the benefits of outsourcing.

I want to punch outsourcing in the nuts today.

crl

isn't the planet orbits an example of perpetual motion?

Johan Larsson

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 but why?

Cerberus

@crl Nice.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What did they do?

@crl No.

Johan Larsson

I don't get Lovechrist

Cerberus

21:03

The motion of the planets will stop eventually.

crl

s/get//

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson Someone misspole his name, and I echoed him.

crl

@Cerberus :o

Johan Larsson

don't fix misspole

Cerberus

There is nothing to fix!

@crl Don't worry: it will take a while. The universe will disintegrate eventually too (or implode).

crl

21:05

his name is actually a religious image if you capitalize it

I'm sure he did it on purpose

Johan Larsson

Tom is love.

crl

Tom olive
Olive & Tom (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_et_Tom)

damn doesn't exist in English, so the joke fails and you can safely ignore this

Johan Larsson

what does it mean in French?

crl

it's the name of a famous (old) anime with a stupid music youtube.com/watch?v=N0jzWR3D-zw

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Do you know Adölfchen und Bdölfchen?

Adölfchen und der Neger

►

I find them rather funny.

I can just about understand them, although they speak rather fast.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

21:14

@Cerberus @JohanLarsson it just makes everything take longer.

Cerberus

That sucks.

By doing what?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus a lot of it is just language barrier.

Cerberus

Ah, that alone is really annoying.

Asia?

Johan Larsson

what is their code like?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JohanLarsson ask @tchrist :3

@Cerberus most of the outsourcing in my industry seems to go to the Philippines or India.

Cerberus

21:18

OK.

I'm so glad nobody speaks Dutch anymore.

Only old people in Indonesia.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

The larger issue is that people high up in companies who under pressure to make numbers look good turn to companies like Accenture to save a penny. But they have no idea what kind of ripple effect it has.

Johan Larsson

Outsourcing feels 1995.

The trend has been in the other direction for a decade I think.

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Horrible.

@JohanLarsson Really? That is good news.

Johan Larsson

I don't have much data, more a feeling.

Cerberus

21:40

Duly noted.

Johan Larsson

Not like the badger situation where I had proof :)

Cerberus

Ah, the badger situation?

Johan Larsson

yesterday, by skill patrol

and punctuation...

started there, escalated like an explosion but with a happy end

lame gif

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus It's only a small part of the problem. Well, my problem.

Cerberus

21:57

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I think it is a problem for many people.

Fabby

Is it allowed to ask homework questions here? (because on my main site it's not and I normally post a comment I will not post homework questions on link-to-this-site! )

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus I don't speak for them.

MετάEd

22:18

The holy trinity? Abba Bierce, J. H. Lovechrist, and Edgar Allan Ghost?

Cerberus

22:31

@Fabby What do you mean by "here"?

I don't know anything about your main site.

You can ask anything in chat, but who knows whether you will get an answer.

Fabby

@Cerberus on the main site...

Are homework questions allowed on english.stackexchange.com (sorry for being unclear)

Cerberus

In general, no.

Fabby

@Cerberus thanks!

Cerberus

@Fabby But, if you encounter a specific problem while doing your home work that you think might be interesting for this website's users, "English experts and enthusiasts", then you can ask about that, if you explain what you want to know and why you couldn't find the answer yourself.

If you are not sure, you can post your question in chat first.

Fabby

I just wanted to post a comment I will not post homework questions on english.stackexchange.com below a question...

's all...

MετάEd

22:49

@Fabby There is nothing wrong with homework questions per se. It's the fact that in practice many homework questions aren't good questions for the site. So rather than calling out "homework question" I would personally call out the "real" problem.

Fabby

@MετάEd όχι! That's not funny... ;-) (it's been triple-downvoted already,

...so I thought leaving my usual comment so the user knows why he's been down-voted.)

MετάEd

23:32

@Fabby The question lacks evidence of research. Otherwise it's innocuous -- a basic question about grammar rules.

Fabby

23:51

@MετάEd Remove the snarky link?

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