The Periodic Table

Sorry if the question was already discussed, but it’s IMHO unlikely, given (mhchem) tag without a wiki. I’m new here, as a post writer. Today I saw my post edited by a high-rep user. The main intent was apparently throwing away HTML formatting and rewriting it in mhchem. Unlike customs at most S...

santiago

ooh boy..

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

CALM DOWN PEOPLE, AND LET ME HANDLE THIS.

santiago

lol

good luck

don't worry, I am just going to watch in amusement

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I've upvoted for now, so he doesn't become annoyed over downvotes.

santiago

that's not a reason to upvote

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

7:28 AM

That's a reason for temporary upvote.

santiago

meh - I don't vote to appease whiners

I downvoted that one due to ...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Due to wrong-formatted ellipsis. Got that.

Well its tone is ranty @san.

I just don't want that ~~jerk~~ guy to go rant about us in his profile.

santiago

I could not care less what someone says in their profile

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Me neither, but we know what I'm talking about.

Stan Shunpike

How can someone have a 10yr ban?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

7:40 AM

With the power of divine.

santiago

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M the tone, to me, is "waaaah, the mean poopy-heads aren't what I want, because I am drowning in the sewer that is my own self importance"

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

But seriously, those are bans issued by SE devs, not mods. @Stan

Stan Shunpike

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M still. For what purpose?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

It must be something along the lines of spamming or something. Lemme find a meta.SE post.

Stan Shunpike

Why not just delete the account?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

7:42 AM

Because the account has contributions and votes.

Removing the account removes those votes.

Martin - マーチン

and also the user could come back

santiago

@Martin-マーチン ewwww

Stan Shunpike

Uhhhh

Wow

That just seems sketchy

Martin - マーチン

oh great somebody is complaining about my marvellous editing skills

Stan Shunpike

They could shut it down

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

7:44 AM

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A: How long can a temporary suspension be?

It's rare, but an account can be suspended for a protracted amount of time when all other attempts at reasoning have failed when it comes to a certain type of behavior. It's not always behavior, though; There's a few things I need to explain to really lead up to a proper answer to your question. ...

@Martin-マーチン Don't engage. Possible troll.

Lemme deal with 'em.

@Stan take a look at what Tim has written up there.

santiago

@Martin-マーチン oh it's only another self important member

Martin - マーチン

I am a mod, it's my job to deal with that...

but I'll keep a low profile for now

Stan Shunpike

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M that's interesting. I didn't realize they started without suspensions in place

I assumed they were there from the beginning. Nope!

Martin - マーチン

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I have something to say (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

But it is dangerous

I don't want to

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@StanShunpike They started liberally. :P But abuse™ made them do many things. Like there was nothing for serial voting at first.

santiago

7:50 AM

@Martin-マーチン good luck

Martin - マーチン

I just wanted to remove the emo

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Mart if there's any lesson to come out of this, it's that markdown doesn't work in edit revisions.

santiago

Emoticons are just noise (usually failed attempts at being 'cute') — santiago 2 mins ago

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

AND I SAID DON'T ENGAGE. ಠ_ಠ

santiago

meh

if you are, I am

Martin - マーチン

7:56 AM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M jeah... i always hated that

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@santiago Well, he loves you, and I don't want you two to engage in romantic relationship. Cough

santiago

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M no danger of that

Martin - マーチン

8:19 AM

I wanna kick that post out of the door

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Martin-マーチン Post an answer instead.

Martin - マーチン

I am too unnerved to do that now

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Well then go eat some sausages.

I wanna keep polite to see what he's gonna say.

@Mart take a look at superstructure.info/StackExchange/math/meta/… and superstructure.info/StackExchange/math/meta/… to realize who we're dealing with here.

santiago

Nothing to be unnerved about, she/he/it is just a know-it-all nobody on the Internet

Martin - マーチン

muhahaha... i had a good chuckle about the last one

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

8:26 AM

@Martin-マーチン IKR?

Martin - マーチン

what does that mean?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I know, right?

santiago

lol superstructure.info/StackExchange/meta/…

Martin - マーチン

yes...

and pay attention dudes...

         \renewcommand{\degree}{\ensuremath{^\circ}}

that is the definition in gensymb

just saying...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Too bad you couldn't comment on his meta.math masterpiece.

santiago

8:29 AM

he is a nobody whose claim to fame is being a wikipedia editor??? big deal

santiago

8:41 AM

lol

probably a good thing that I am not a mod - I have no sympathy nor compassion for members like this one, and similr, like lightness, bjb, evan carroll etc

scared 'em off again

i might respond...

tempted to (but won't) say "We are not going to change everything to appease your wishes/demands - you are, in fact, not a special little snowflake like you seem to believe"

lol

scared off @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @Martin-マーチン

Martin - マーチン

9:01 AM

nahh you didn't

i am just discussing a question over a bio

santiago

dang, have to be scarier

Martin - マーチン

9:24 AM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I guess someone changed his vote ( ¬ ‿ ¬)

santiago

where?

Martin - マーチン

on the "debate"

santiago

the debate?

Martin - マーチン

HTML vs Jax

santiago

ah

not a debate, but a know-it-all ranting about not getting his own way

Martin - マーチン

9:34 AM

hence the double quotes

santiago

ah

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Martin-マーチン Just for you.

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

santiago

good to see you're not appeasing that wannabe

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

They seem to have not been able to beat us in any discussion or whatever, so there goes.

We should expect a "Chem.SE is for losers and it'll never succeed as a site."

santiago

why should we care about his ramblings?

pH13

9:42 AM

o/

Either I sleep too long or you talk too much during my sleep. So much to read @_@

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@pH13 You sleep too long.

And we had a troll to nag about anyway.

Martin - マーチン

haha... o Hi yo/ @pH13

pH13

@Martin-マーチン cause I'm a ~~sleeeeeeeper~~ dreeeeeeaaaaamer

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hullo @k--! Welcome to the chatroom!

Martin - マーチン

o/

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

9:57 AM

@Martin-マーチン Hullo Martin.

Martin - マーチン

3 mins ago, by Martin - マーチン

o/

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4 mins ago, by Martin - マーチン

o/

Martin - マーチン

19 secs ago, by inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4 mins ago, by Martin - マーチン

o/

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

31 secs ago, by inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4 mins ago, by Martin - マーチン

o/

k--

o/

pH13

10:24 AM

\o

ron

1:53 PM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M This morning, there was a notification in my achievements icon telling me that I had earned the "access to site analytics" privilege. It pointed me to the help center where I noted the "privileges" link had been updated with info on this new privilege.

@santiago Santiago, my flag was marked "helpful", noticed the flagged comment had been modified when I looked this am

pH13

3:10 PM

Geoff has been too long away from chat ... cannot ping him (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

3:25 PM

@pH13 You can find a message from him and reply to it.

pH13

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M great idea

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@k-- Hullo. :) Welcome to our humble Table.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4:28 PM

Hullo @Todd!

Todd Minehardt

hey @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M what up?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Not much, as always.

Except

8 hours ago, by inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Mart take a look at http://www.superstructure.info/StackExchange/math/meta/negligent-or-dickish-revi‌ew-of-suggested-edits.html and http://www.superstructure.info/StackExchange/math/meta/irrational-hatred-towards‌-typesetting-without-latex-commands-or-the-raising-deg.html to realize who we're dealing with here.

Todd Minehardt

i see you've been busy sparring with one of our new esteemed users on meta (re: HTML vs. mhchem)

you read my mind :)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Esteemed cough

Todd Minehardt

what a mess

pH13

4:30 PM

@Todd I pulled the request :o

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Their behavior seems a lot like trollish @Todd. Mathjax was their father's killer or something.

And any edit to their post also annoys them as if it's an apocalypse or something.

Todd Minehardt

@pH13 - you mean fafoom? and @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M - agreed

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

They've managed to get pissed off in Math and Phys. Now it's Chem's turn.

Todd Minehardt

@pH13 - nevermind, i see your pull request - cooL!

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M - apparently. i wonder why they don't go elsewhere....

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@ToddMinehardt That's why I say their behavior is trollish.

Todd Minehardt

4:32 PM

yeah, that follows....sorry it's been a trouble, you've been very patient

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Nah, I've seen much worse.

I still am eager to beat them in their own discussion. ;) Maybe they were expecting someone steaming off.

pH13

@ToddMinehardt I hope, I deleted all stuff that she did not want in the code xD

Todd Minehardt

@pH13 - see that. cool, i bet she'll merge it now. congrats on your open-source contributor status :)

pH13

now I will get famous ... lol

our room got closed :C

or frozen ... seems to be sth like closed

Todd Minehardt

huh

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4:35 PM

>:D

This is a great moment.

SE bot froze it for inactivity?

>:DDDD

pH13

why is this great? :o

Todd Minehardt

apparently @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M is a luddite :)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

>:D

Oh this was so great. Your room is dead.

Todd Minehardt

you killed it

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Anyway @PH13 you can ask @Mart to melt its ice.

pH13

4:38 PM

We will need it in near future :o ... for parallelization

Todd Minehardt

yes, that's coming up - that and profiling

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Mart please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it please don't unfreaze it

pH13

I was profiling it a little

it's somewhere in mutate_and_relax

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

There you go @pH13. He'll totally do that now.

pH13

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M thank you for your great halp

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

4:40 PM

Where's my money?

pH13

that's ... eh ... @Todd 's part

Todd Minehardt

:)

we need a statistical-mechanics tag

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Q: Finding number of atomic microstates

Given some electron configuration, I know the formula (# electron positions)!/((#e)!(#positions-#e)!) can be used to determine the number of microstates. So for 2 electrons in a $p$ orbital it would be 6!/2!4! = 15, or for two electrons in a $d$ orbital it would be 10!/(2!8!) = 45. I'm a li...