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3:00 AM
@Hosch250LookingforHats lol, how to get it will be out by Tuesday.
 
Time to do the dishes, see you later.
 
the real nasty hat is archimedes
 
Yeah, I won't get that one.
And I won't get the ones for using the app either because they refuse to support Windows Phone, despite the good advice of one of their lead engineers.
I should sue for discrimination ;P
 
Living in the Future is mine! thanks guys for the UVs
 
3:03 AM
@Hosch250LookingforHats hey at least they got rid of the apple only hat
 
yeah
Android all the way
 
I havent gotten the 2 app hats yet easy 2. plus I have a gold and silver lined up :) 2 more!
 
Uh oh
I can't get the gold one I'm afraid
@David We need a BSE guy on top ;)
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ we shall!
 
you sure? not just a prohibitive amount of editing you gotta do?
 
3:06 AM
@MikeMiller I know, what is 400 edits in the next 2 weeks?
 
I Hate Hats
do not flag that as offensive
however offensive it may be.....
 
yet you're in this room?
 
@X-27 I dont believe it.
 
@JoshCrozier lol
does anyone recognize a joke when they see a blatantly obvious one?????????/
 
3:11 AM
@X-27 youve posted 13% of this rooms messages.
@X-27 no
we need the </joke> tags at the end.
 
It's hard to read sarcasm on the internet.
 
A lot of them are mods, you gotta cut them some slack :P
jk
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ LOL
6 hours ago, by X-27
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just saying...
 
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.........................................
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ #9 coming up (just got a silver)
 
3:15 AM
oooh
You will be at the top of the totem pole :D
 
9!
 
@David that will put you in First.
 
wah you guys are on fire
 
and my gold is right behind!
 
3:15 AM
Wow. Congrats on first!!!!
 
@Mat'sMug I told you I wanted to be first on my site, even if that means first in the network!
2
 
I need to catch up now!
 
@Undo passed you :)
 
thank god nobody can rep cap 3 times today
 
@David Get 11 hats and that earns you winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/specialist-hatsman
 
3:16 AM
I'm still first on CR
 
@JoshCrozier tomorrow, probably.
 
Wow.
 
just Wow.
 
3:17 AM
That is awesome
 
nice
 
I really want the Batman one
 
I just need an upvote on my post and answer on this and I get do it yourself
 
I guess it's pretty much impossible to get the 'explorer' hat on a site you're already active on.... winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/explorer
 
yeah. same with last year
 
3:25 AM
@JoshCrozier yep. I joined electronics to get that hat.
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Q: Part identification in this dimmer switch

DavidThe dimmer in question is a 3 poll LEVITION 600 watt 120VAC 60HZ dimmer. The three red boxes in the picture below are what I'm questioning. What are those three pieces (and what do they do). Here are some more pictures of the dimmer switch. This is how the circuit fits in with the contacts an...

 
3 UVs anybody?
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A: How to Make Multi User Objects Single User?

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇYou can also just use Alt+C > Mesh from Curve/Meta/Surf/Text to convert it to a mesh. This will apply the modifier for all instances of the mesh. This means you can get just one instance looking exactly how you want it, use the Alt+C command, and it will be applied to all the meshes.

@David All mine are on Blender
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ all mine are
 
so why did you go to electronics . . ?
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ PS did you see the vies on that. another gold going to the gandalf.
 
3:27 AM
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ to get the explorer hat (which I have not gotten yet)
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ already did
 
just waiting on time?
Oh, you mean you voted on mine. Thanks :)
 
hat trick is going to be hard.
 
yeah
Oooh I need 32 rep to hit it tomorow
I might get one at least
 
3:37 AM
@David hat trick? try Field Work on Code Review! ...quite a PITA
 
@Mat'sMug any nice question is not going to be easy on blender.
 
Yeah
Over 7,900 hats total so far
 
Yo, does a secret hat user wanna test something?
 
10 by me
@Quill what?
 
3:40 AM
what css file contains the style for your hat
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 4 mins ago, by Quill
function reqListener () {
	a = this.responseText.split("'");
	for (var i = 0, length = a.length; i < length / 1; i++) {
		if (i % 2 == 0) continue;
		document.body.innerHTML += "<img src=\"" + a[i] + "\"></img>";
  }
};

var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.addEventListener("load", reqListener);
oReq.open("GET", 'https://cdn-prom.sstatic.net/WinterBash/non-secret-hats.css?v=d4809556d544');
oReq.send();
 
@Quill I dont yet have one :(
@Undo ^^
 
oh
 
I'm going to bed, cya all tomorow
 
entering the css file for the hat should change it to show the hats
Of course, @balpha could just make it so each hat has an individual css file, meaning you can't see any hidden hats besides the one you have
also night @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ
 
@Quill I think that is what they did last year.
 
3:42 AM
but if you change the link in that script to hats.css, it gives you...
 
4:09 AM
my cerro de potosi hat hasn't arrived yet ;-;
Thanks @santa! I got copernicus
Have we tested the gold badge get for Secret Hat yet?
 
@Quill sadly my gold has not come yet.
 
isn't that a regular hat?
 
4:24 AM
no just silver
 
yep
El Dorado - earn a gold badge
 
never mind lol
 
I can get the silver badge if I get a comment voted to +5.
 
you dont read the hat page much :)
@Hosch250LookingforHats on what site?
 
CR.
I have 4 +5 already.
 
4:25 AM
too bad
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats wanna link me
I just earned a silver badge, but it hasn't come through yet
 
just go to the 2nd monitor, somebody there is bound to comply.
 
everything still possible today seems pretty nontrivial
 
@Quill badges take longer then hats
@MikeMiller yep
 
Please do not edit your question after you have received answers as it will invalidate them: codereview.stackexchange.com/help/on-topicHosch250 Looking for Hats Mar 12 at 22:13
Almost there!
 
4:27 AM
i could troll the front page for questions to answer, but they're all so... bad
 
And then I'll be tied with you for 1st.
 
no you wont
im on 8 (the 8th not shown yet)
you'll be on 6
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats second, I'v got first (for now)
 
Oh, I'll be second.
@David On CR.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats k
 
4:28 AM
I'm only tied at 5, which is #16.
 
I just saw
 
I've got to pimp a post later and I'll be at 9 hats
 
@Pops welcome. and thanks for the hats!
 
I've got a query here if you are interested in finding how close you are to Pundit: data.stackexchange.com/codereview/query/400218/…
@PratikCJoshi Don't know where you're hiring your girlfriends.. here they go for $120 / hour. — Insane Dec 10 at 1:15
Girlfriends for hire?
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats Consider adding meta to that as well
 
4:32 AM
@Quill You can switch sites for meta.
Meta badges are calculated differently anyway.
 
ik, but if you're looking for pundit
 
You have to get it on meta separately.
 
@David You are the proprietor of this millinery shop? I HAVE A MONOPOLY ON HATS AROUND HERE I mean, um, you're welcome!
2
 
Doesn't look like I'll get it.
 
@Pops I sure am!
 
4:38 AM
@Pops Any news on whether you guys are reconsidering supporting Windows Phone?
Last I heard is it was brought up but vetoed.
 
As far as I know, it's still not on the plan.
 
OK. I understand that you've got better things to do.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats yes, like hats!
 
No..., like graduating sites.
 
well... yes I suppose that too. (PS ours is getting a design right now!)
 
4:43 AM
Cool!
 
we just got one, and it looks nice
before that, I just designed a userscript one
 
has there been any word on CR swag yet?
 
No, they are 6 months behind, last I heard.
 
or more then that. BIG backlog.
 
wait, we get swag @Hosch250LookingforHats?
 
4:46 AM
All sites are supposed to get swag at graduation.
 
The backlog was unbelievably huge at one point. I never dealt with it directly and never got a specific number. But as of last week it's cleared out, thanks to the heroic efforts of JNat, animuson and abbyhairboat.
 
(just got another silver!) two in one day never happens to me, and I dont even get another hat!
 
is it just the mods, or page ones or what?
 
So now we can get started on the queue of sites that have graduated but not received swag yet, which is itself quite long.
Pro tems and top couple pages of users.
 
ah, I see
 
4:48 AM
@Quill you want a list? (depends on the site comes down to about any user with <1500 rep gets free stuff)
 
I'm page 2 and 6k so I'm okay @David, I was just curious :P
 
I'm page 1 and almost 12k, and I'm not sure on whether I'll accept it.
 
in The Renderfarm, 10 hours ago, by David
@iKlsR Here is a short list of some of the sites I have found that have gotten swag:
read the few below that.
 
ah, I see
I remember the con SciFi went too as well
So I'd assume events like that are still coordinated with the CMs
 
@Quill probably, but us mods just read about it on meta like everybody else.
 
4:52 AM
you don't hear whispers in the lounge?
 
@David so I'm not the only one who mistypes "meta" as "meat" :D
I do that more often than I would like to admit.
 
@Seth sign, not at all. I do it too frequently.
 
I thought it was just cool mod slang o_O
 
@Quill yeh, lets go with that.
 
I'm cool with that :P
 
4:56 AM
"over on the main meat they are talking about hats again."
@Seth your iguana looks odd with that hat.
 
which?
I don't think chat has updated my hat yet.
 
looks like Thalia
 
ah. Yeah I positioned it so that the iguana's yellow eye was glinting out the hat.
Now I'm wearing timey wimey but chat hasn't updated.
 
can someone make a SEDE script to show tumbleweeds (<80 views, no answer comment vote, over say two weeks ago) along with their tags? preferably i'd like to just filter so that it only shows things in my favorite tags but i don't know how to do that. should be a mild edit of this but i haven't been able to make that work
keeps timing out
 
Whelp, upgrade finished so I am off to bed. Catch ya later guys!
 
4:59 AM
@MikeMiller there are ones
 
where? searching gets me nothing
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ you are going to be tough competition!
 
wait what more do you want from that query
 
@Seth night
 
those are not tumbleweeds, they're things that have the potential of being tumbleweeds
<2 weeks old
 
5:01 AM
@MikeMiller just look under the tumbleweed badge.
 
ah, fair enough
 
@MikeMiller ps I'll welcome you to the top as well.
 
It's been like an hour and I still haven't got my silver badge ;-;
 
grazie
 
but not @JoshCrozier :) </jk>
 
5:03 AM
Me either, because I haven't got the last vote.
 
@Quill for what?
 
Archaeologist.
 
yeah, I did all 100, but nothing came up in recent badges, badge list, or hats (for silver badge)
 
i'd be glad to give you a vote if i knew either what a code or a review was
 
@MikeMiller but you can do math
 
5:04 AM
No, it is for editing.
 
oic
 
Can you give me a vote?
38 mins ago, by Hosch250 Looking for Hats
Please do not edit your question after you have received answers as it will invalidate them: codereview.stackexchange.com/help/on-topicHosch250 Looking for Hats Mar 12 at 22:13
 
@David that's what i've tricked people into believing
@Hosch250LookingforHats: What I meant was I don't have an account on that site
 
If you want to be nice and vote (I'm still two off on this)
 
You could create one and get 100 rep.
@Quill Pff, already voted.
You see, we have a regular voting ring here.
 
5:06 AM
I'll probably wait a few hours and ask on 2nd monitor
 
If I edit 180 posts, I can have a gold badge.
 
If I flag 200 times, I can gold badge
 
If I get 79 posts older than 6 months, I get a silver badge in the process.
@Quill Those are harder because you have a limit.
I'll be just in time to get Legendary in 30 years.
 
I'll probably use up all my votes on SO
 
Crap, I'm stuck with Hosch250 Looking for Hats for 30 days!
 
5:13 AM
lol
 
Last year, the limit was changing 3 times in a row :(
I'll have to ask Mat to change me when Winter Bash is over.
Good. I finally got C# to overtake Beginner in my profile.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats join a new site, change your name, make changes across the whole network.
 
I just joined Blender. Perfect.
 
@Derpy how did you know??? meta.stackexchange.com/a/270803/278094
@Hosch250LookingforHats excellent!
 
I should post a CSS answer and try to get +7. I'll get a bronze CSS badge if I do.
Maybe there is a secret hat for that.
 
5:17 AM
Do It Yourself hat
 
night all. let me know anything new over night. :)
 
Night here too.
 
night guys
 
never sleep, lest you miss an archimedes. sweet dreams tho
 
@MikeMiller lol
 
5:23 AM
Those little guys must be throwing absolute stones at each other.
Or, more likely, bombs, given the way they go flying.
 
5:51 AM
Hat #5 has been earned :)
 
6:36 AM
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Q: Hat scrolls with page

QuillWhen visiting my profile on the mobile app, my hat scrolls with the page: It doesn't stay linked to my icon at the top. I'm on an iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.2 and version 1.4.1 of the SE app.

 
Us poor Android folk don't even get to see the hats :(
 
7:13 AM
Logs in, earns 6 hats, has no idea why.
 
Whistles.
 
Turns out votes before the start of Winterbash count as well.
That's the only logical explanation.
 
For some hats
 
Or the system crapped up.
 
nope
 
7:42 AM
So I just eliminated the use all of your daily allowance of stars from the list of secret hat possibilities
 
:P
I think the hats are to encourage positive behavior :P
 
it's fine in Sandbox
and in 2nd monitor nowhere else though
 
I didn't even know there was a daily allowance of stars, but I rarely participate in chat.
 
20 a day
 
I've never hit that.
 
7:45 AM
I've hit it about 5-7 times
 
8:17 AM
@David It isn't evident? Doctor Whooves told me.
 
8:43 AM
This is a test (sorry in advance): @Derpy @NathanOsman @Mast @Hosch250 @Mike @David @Mat'sMug
 
@Quill grumph
 
sorry (testing a hat theory)
 
Don't worry Quill.
 
It's hat season. We knew this was coming.
 
 
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10:26 AM
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Q: Hat scrolls with page

QuillWhen visiting my profile on the mobile app, my hat scrolls with the page: It doesn't stay linked to my icon at the top. I'm on an iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.2 and version 1.4.1 of the SE app.

2 more ups on this for a badge
 
11:07 AM
Already 2 people at SO with 10 hats. Flying start.
 
I'm nearly at 10
I just need batman or field work
 
11:53 AM
Any secret hat holder here?
I need an info.
 
I only have Odinson, which isn't so secret anymore.
 
@Eran ok, please go to the winter bash page.
<a href="/the-airing-of-grievances" class="box box-closed" id="hat-7">

<div class="item">
<div class="wb-hatimg wb-hatimg-stroke-7" style="width:95px;height:95px;margin:15px;"></div>
</div>

<h2 class="hat-name">The Airing of Grievances</h2>
<span class="hat-description">post/vote on meta on Dec 23</span>
</a>
each hat has a similar html structure.
what does Odinson use as id?
 
@Derpy: 507644442
 
SO HIGH.... grrrrr....
I need to automate this....
@MikeMiller Thanks
 
12:16 PM
@Derpy Only saw your request now, but I see you already got an answer.
 
12:56 PM
Oooh, 12 more rep and I could cap! The Hat Trick hat seems a lot more feasible all of a sudden
 
Just got a hat on MSE, quite unexpected.
 
@Mast for a silver badge
 
Yup.
 
rip I got downvoted
nomore up hat
 
1:08 PM
I got DV'd out of the blue too :/
One random downvote
Onion Knight and 007 hats turned up, but nobody seems to know how to get them
 
Funny discovery: one could create a program to discover all the secret hats names. Only problem, I don't want to overload the bash site with requests.
 
@Derpy somebody got banned doing it earlier
 
@Quill That is why I am not doing it.
 
OK, I think 007 is "Post an answer that gets 0 comments to a question with 0 comments and get 7 upvotes", or something very similar. Every case I see fits with this; every case I don't see fits with this.
 
1:20 PM
@MikeMiller That would be a rare thing - getting that many votes with no comments
 
Yup, which justifies it being a secret hat :) Everyone with it, as far as I can tell, has had this happen
in the process of checking everyone
 
@Quill Don't do it on your own IP...
 
I'm not that stupid :P I'd hope the rest of you wouldn't be either
 
Can hats be earned on the meta sites? For like getting a silver badge?
 
1:32 PM
You'll earn them on main.
 
so i am getting the badge on meta but the hat on main?
 
Aye.
 
interesting... tanks a lot
 
2:02 PM
Aww, they got smart.
 
ya
 
Hats don't have a spritesheet anymore
LAME
 
svg now
 
Also, there appear to be 45 possible hats.
 
Is there a way to search for posts with no comments?
 
2:07 PM
@MikeMiller SEDE?
 
I'll give it a shot
 
2:25 PM
Testing my 007 theory here. No comments; answer needs 7 upvotes. (I can't get more points today, if my gaining from this makes you uncomfortable.)
 
2:36 PM
I just found someone with a "hairboat's revenge" hat. Does anyone remember who it was who made/announced the hairboat hat? to get it we might need to spam that person.
 
Jon Ericson.
 
@X-27 Jon.
 
Does anyone know if that is how you get the hat?
 
it is.
 
Awesome!
 
2:38 PM
Hm?
 
@X-27 I just got the hat for this comment:
 
I guessed correctly just from the name :-)
 
I like 3 though, and I think the only thing that'd make this proposal close to meaningful is 3. — Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. 7 mins ago
@X-27 Just don't spam him though. Try to make it constructive, at least temporarily. :)
 
ok
like, comment, get the hat, and delete it :-)
 
@X-27 Comment on what?
 
2:41 PM
JonEricson's posts
 
@Gwenn A post of Jon.
 
For many 2nd Monitor regulars, that recent chat messages section would say "lol ⭐ 5" and "gosh I'm out of stars again ⭐8" — Mat's Mug 24 secs ago
 

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