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Matt Эллен

18:08

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user116848

Hello! peeps

user116848

Or is it: Hello peeps!

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus well i'm not going to scold you. ask MrShiny

Ice Boy

@MattЭллен double gasp

@Arrowfar I prefer this one.

user116848

I see

user116848

18:15

How are you skull? :)

Ice Boy

Fine thanks, how are you?

user116848

I am fine, thanks!

user116848

@IceBoy So, did you find out who flagged that comment yesterday?

Ice Boy

Nope.

user116848

18:16

okay

user116848

So, mods know of the people who flag?

Ice Boy

yes, but they never tell

Cerberus

@JSBձոգչ Right, right! Still, it seems strange to scold people over text without context.

user116848

@IceBoy I see.

Cerberus

@Arrowfar Technically, it should be "Hello, peeps!".

user116848

18:18

@Cerberus I see. okay :D

Ice Boy

@Cerberus Why is the comma technically necessary?

Cerberus

@IceBoy One generally uses a comma to separate a vocative from the rest of the sentence.

And "peeps" is a vocative.

Feeds

Undo has added SmokeDetector to the list of this room's owners.

Undo has removed SmokeDetector from the list of this room's owners.

Undo

My bad

Cerberus

Similarly, one generally uses a comma with exclamations, such as hello.

Hello, Undo.

Undo

18:28

user116848

Smokedetector is ike Jarvis, right?

Cerberus

That was a very mysterious line there, "Undo has added SmokeDetector to the list of this room's owners.".

Undo

@Arrowfar It's a bot that checks every new question that comes in for signs of spam.

user116848

Ah, that.

Cerberus

But what does a chat bot have to do with questions on the main site?

Will Hunting

18:29

Hi @seth lol

Seth

oh hi

Undo

@Cerberus It posts 'em in chat if it thinks they're spam.

Cerberus

Ohh I see.

That is not such a bad idea.

Ice Boy

@Seth who do you like in tonight's game GB-7

Will Hunting

@Seth I am looking forward to try out Ubuntu Mate 14.10

Seth

18:31

@IceBoy who are they playing again? GB vs/at who? I can't remember.

@WillHunting I'm sure you'll like it :D

Ice Boy

Min

Seth

Ah, right.

I think GB will win if they can put anything together. I was impressed with how they played in Seattle. If they can do that again I think they'll win. Otherwise I'd say a tossup.

Ice Boy

yep, they will cover the 7 ...

or
... it is a tossup :)

Andrew Leach

As you may have seen, @Undo has implemented a feed to post suspected spam or other undesirable posts to chat. It was my suggestion, so please don't shoot him. Hopefully the posts will get dealt with even more quickly and spammers can be deterred even more.

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: I’m not sure there’s much you can do When you’ve got a facial tattoo And need t…

posted on October 02, 2014 by sgdi

I’m not sure there’s much you can do When you’ve got a facial tattoo And need to blend in With very white kin You’ll stick out, so go naked too

Ice Boy

18:41

@AndrewLeach tough timing on the "Limerick Machine"

user116848

@IceBoy lol

Ice Boy

@Arrowfar :D

Undo

If the bot gets out of hand/goes insane, ping a moderator (not with a flag), and tell them to remove it from the explicit write access list (chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/95/…). That should stop it from posting in here. You can usually find a few in The Assembly.

Seth

Or, if you can't find a mod, you can use a moderator only chat flag.

Ice Boy

Undo is showing how to undo the bot :)

Undo

18:48

yup

Ice Boy

can you undo multiplication by zero?

Undo

depends.

Ice Boy

on what?

Undo

Do I have the original number? :P

(no)

Ice Boy

I only have the result.

Undo

18:51

then nope

Ice Boy

so multiplication is not undoable

You say, "If you wanted to undo something, it didn't work."

But, I'm saying: multiplication works.

Seth

but undoing it didn't now, did it? ;)

Ice Boy

only with zero

Seth

Oh, so you managed to tell me what I multiplied to get 50? Sweet!

Ice Boy

if you tell me what you multiplied by, then yes...

Andrew Leach

18:59

@IceBoy Multiplying by zero definitely cannot be undone, because there is an infintely large result set.

Ice Boy

yes, zero times any number is zero...and any number are all the real numbers

Will Hunting

Why are we talking about this in this room, lol

Ice Boy

11 mins ago, by Undo

depends.

@WillHunting why not?

Ice Boy

19:31

in Mathematics, 6 mins ago, by Ice Boy

in English Language Learners, 4 mins ago, by Damkerng T.

Oh, I have a little survey for all of us here: do you cross your 7?

Undo

I cross my Z's

Ice Boy

me too

Andrew Leach

Me too. But not 7. 1 is either nude or seriffed top and bottom to differentiate from 7.

Ice Boy

Both the top and bottom? That's rare :)

Undo

I tend to either write just a 'naked' 1 (usually in math stuff), but if I'm gonna serif it it's both top and bottom

Seth

19:49

I cross Zs and most of my 7s too.

1 is a tossup, depends where it is and what its purpose is.

Ice Boy

I used to write my ones naked until I realized what an important number it was, now I always seriff :-)

It is one letter away from being the sheriff of the numbers :D

Would that make it zero's deputy?

Ice Boy

20:14

Oops make that two letters sherif has only one f

Seth

still a good pun :)

Cerberus

20:44

Nobody here ever crosses z's.

How very Anglo-Saxon of you!

Ice Boy

excuse me?

Cerberus

Do you deny it?

Ice Boy

I don't even know what that means

Cerberus

Anglo-Saxon?

Ice Boy

yes

that's just English, right?

Cerberus

20:47

Anglo-Saxon (disambiguation)

Anglo-Saxon may refer to: Anglo-Saxons, Germanic tribes that settled down in Britain and founded England Old English, their language Anglo-Saxon England, their history Anglo-Saxon world, modern societies based on or influenced by English customs SS Anglo Saxon, one of various ships White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term == See also == Anglo...

> Anglo-Saxon world, modern societies based on or influenced by English customs

You're not English technically, but you are Anglo-Saxon.

It's odd, isn't it?

Andrew Leach

Oh, here is Holland. I get it.

Cerberus

And only in some ways.

Andrew Leach

Not this chat room. Right.

Cerberus

It is!

It would be a rather bold claim to make about this here chat room!

Andrew Leach

Loads of people have said here that they cross Z.

Including me.

Cerberus

20:49

Hence my astonishment.

Or, rather, interest.

Ice Boy

have you ever worked with the variable Z?

Cerberus

Certainly.

Who hasn't?

Andrew Leach

Without crossing, my Z looks like 2.

Ice Boy

2Z=22

Cerberus

Right.

But 2 looks like 5...

And 1 looks like a comma or a bracket...

Ice Boy

20:51

and you look like a 3 headed dog :D

Cerberus

You just have to write neatly.

No way!

Ice Boy

under time pressure "writing neatly" is the first thing to go out the window my friend

Cerberus

nods

3 hours later…

Cerberus

23:40

Damkerng T.

@Cerberus Oh, we're at #10!

Cerberus

Yay!

Many people do go to Thailand on vacation.

Including from here.

Damkerng T.

Yay!

Cerberus

The people are known to be very friendly.

The weather is tropical.

Damkerng T.

Indeed! We are!

That, too!

Cerberus

23:50

There are many culturally interesting things to see.

Damkerng T.

Oh, that, too!

Cerberus

Now, I hate hot weather, but everything else about Thailand I like.

Damkerng T.

Yay!

Cerberus

Oh, and the political climate is fairly stable, corruption is moderate, hygiene is reasonable.

Damkerng T.

Probably, you might like our northern part, like Chiang Mai, where the whether is less hot than Bangkok.

Cerberus

23:52

No crazy religions.

Quite possibly!

Friends of mine went to Bangkok and Chiang Mai last year.

Damkerng T.

Oh, nice!

Cerberus

They liked it, as everyone does.

Damkerng T.

I bet!

Did they come here on a festival or something?

Cerberus

How is the political situation now?

I don't know.

Damkerng T.

I think it's rather stable now.

Cerberus

23:53

OK.

Damkerng T.

Though it's a bit different from before.

Cerberus

Right, the army is in charge now.

Damkerng T.

nods

Cerberus

By the way, how much power do you think the King still has?

Damkerng T.

I'd say as always.

Cerberus

23:54

And how much is that? What could he accomplish, if he really decided to go all out?

Damkerng T.

I'm not supposed to say much, but we are all grateful that He is our king, and we would do anything for Him.

Cerberus

I see.

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