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bwDraco
bwDraco
12:08 AM
q
 
Bob
Bob
erm
@Mokubai, @Ramhound... superuser.com/a/1283888/117590 doesn't look like a question submitted as an answer. It's an answer ("In my case, I have a UPS") semi-disguised as an anecdote.
It was also posted before the other suggestions/answers to check were.
If anything, it's a more correct answer than the one about wireless keyboards/mice.
Basically it's saying "I've seen this before; it was because I had a UPS, perhaps you're in a similar situation."
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1:06 AM
At my cousin's place. Good news? Haz leads, and he's basically going"Dude, the people here are incompetant, you'd probably scare the shit out of em. Apply, throw me in as a reference, and I'll put in a word for ya. The singapore guy's my old boss"
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek that a job in India or Singapore? :P
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Bob singapore
 
Bob
Bob
ah
@JourneymanGeek also, "the people here are incompetent" sounds not-so-great :P
also the story of your last job? :P
guess it can go either way
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
@Bob oh not everyone.
 
Bob
Bob
you become irreplaceable (:D)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1:16 AM
;p
 
Bob
Bob
or they want you gone asap (D:)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
worth a shot anyway ;p
 
Bob
Bob
ya
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1:41 AM
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ...it's a cult
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
2:17 AM
Linode:
> Update: January 9, 2018

We spent today preparing the plan for deploying the Meltdown mitigations across Linode’s fleet. Over the course of the next day we will be implementing fixes to a subset of the fleet, monitoring for impact, and then continuing the rollout to the rest. The Meltdown mitigation requires reboots of our physical hardware which will reboot the Linodes hosted on them. A subset of Linodes in the Tokyo 1, Frankfurt, and Singapore data centers will be rebooted as part of this initial group. For those affected, you will receive a support ticket and email with scheduling info…
 
Bob
Bob
oof
0
Q: Is there a way to replace the 9v battery in a USB mint charger with 200mAh lip battery?

A TI made a little mint box USB charger, using a car-charger and a 9v battery cable. So I made this little rudimentary mint box and I was just wondering, what if I could do more than just a 9v battery? I know that your standard 9v doesn’t have a lot of mAh, so I am looking at a small 200mAh lipo th...

usb charger
that scares me
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
"How do I bomb myself?"
 
TamalesRancheros
TamalesRancheros
2:48 AM
@MichaelFrank laxatives ...
 
HackToHell
HackToHell
3:10 AM
Hola!
I am in Tokyo for a while!
 
Bob
Bob
o.O
@HackToHell Wrong language? :P
 
HackToHell
HackToHell
@Bob konichiwa :D
How are you people ? been a long time since I have been arond here :/
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
3:53 AM
@HackToHell I am in CBE :p
 
HackToHell
HackToHell
4:29 AM
@JourneymanGeek damn! when you are in India, I somehow end up several thousand km away
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
:p
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
4:59 AM
whoo
Astaroth's wireless network adapter is averaging upwards of 500 Mbps transferring data from another computer over the network connected via Ethernet.
802.11ac FTW!
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic class 3? :P superuser.com/questions/1185885/…
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
By Ysmir, this network adapter is wicked fast!
(it helps that the system is right above the router, separated by little more than one story, with both client and router using high-gain antennas)
Peak speed was about 585 Mbps, some two-thirds of the theoretical limit for 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO.
 
 
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Bob
Bob
6:12 AM
foof
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
6:30 AM
roar
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
6:42 AM
and here I am, at work at 6:30am for a fail over test
in which I have nothing to do.
 
Mokubai
Mokubai
@Bob saw it but didn't like the anecdote and solution of "disable something somehow" and "I just learned to ignore the icon."
Should have been a comment to me.
 
Bob
Bob
@Mokubai Eh... seeing as the question is "why am I getting a battery icon", "because of UPS" is the answer. Disabling, ignoring, etc, are extra (and technically aren't what are being asked for)
It's a bit rambly (...says the writer of rambly answers) but it still does answer the question, IMO
*shrug*
NAA implies it doesn't even try. Everything else ... should probably be handled by votes, no?
It's not even VLQ-levels of irredeemably bad.
Worded a bit too chattily, perhaps. But then that's a new user with their first answer who could probably do with a couple tips and a correction rather than nuking.
 
Mokubai
Mokubai
7:01 AM
@Bob duplicating the accepted answer as well which states as much.
 
Bob
Bob
@Mokubai It was posted before the accepted answer.
If I'm reading the timestamps right, it was even posted before any of the comments telling OP how to check the battery device.
Compared to the currently accepted answer, it's true that it isn't particularly useful.
But in the interest of fairness, it didn't really deserve to be outright deleted either.
It was not a duplicate at time of posting.
Unless there was a policy change I am unaware of?
Last I checked, this kind of case should be handled by voting, not by delete-hammers or moderator action.
anyway. hometime!
 
Mokubai
Mokubai
7:39 AM
It was initially deleted for being waffle with "just ignore it" which made it look like NAA.
Looking again it does mention a "maybe UPS" but still no actual solution.
Yes it could have been handled differently originally, but now it's deleted and a better answer exists it's got even less reason to reinstate.
@Bob feel free to vote to undelete and flag for moderator attention
 
Bob
Bob
@Mokubai yea I considered editing and flagging/metaing but didn't want to make too much of a fuss of it
mostly because the user looked like a useful future contributor with a bit of work
but at this point it's probably too late anyway :/
anyway might do something when I get back to a computer
 
Bob
Bob
8:11 AM
Eh. Edited it now.
@Mokubai btw, when a mod deletes a question, 10k users can't vote to undelete.
It's very much a hammer.
Not that 10k users on SU usually vote to delete/undelete anyway :\
 
user226528
Bott, Ed. (9 January 2018) Meltdown-Spectre: Four things every Windows admin needs to do now. ZDNet. CBS Interactive.
 
Bob
Bob
@FleetCommand Hmmmm. Unless something has changed, this seems inaccurate.
Also that autoplay video needs to die.
 
user226528
Damn right it should.
 
Bob
Bob
Anyway, it says anything pre-Haswell wiil have serious performance impacts... eh.
IIRC it's actually pre-Westmere that lacks PCID.
 
user226528
Leave a comment for him. Ed Bott is ... more open-minded.
 
Bob
Bob
8:22 AM
@FleetCommand I'm not sure that benchmarks haven't proven that wrong in the last week.
It's only what I remember seeing in the first few days.
otherwise a decent (if business-oriented) article
could do with some discussion of what the actual risk is, I suppose
 
user226528
Warren, Tom. (9 January 2018). Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs. The Verge. Vox Media.
 
user226528
So much for the company that initially claimed its chips are not affected! But I have to go. Maybe I'll read it in an hour or two.
 
Bob
Bob
@FleetCommand Ah, seems on Windows specifically it (currently) requires INVPCID, which is Haswell+: twitter.com/Nick_Lowe/status/950042051957182464
Current Linux patch only uses PCID, which is Westmere+.
Might also explain why the performance impact on Windows seems to be lesser...
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
@FleetCommand Affects K8 machines, as I understand it.
Yes, we have a K8 machine in this house. No, it did not get the update.
Even K10 (Athlon II, Phenom II) is new enough to not be affected by this problem.
This is blown well out of proportion – there are very few K8 machines still in operation today.
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
8:40 AM
o_O
My Acer monitor suddenly got way brighter than before :\
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
powaaaaaaaaaar
2
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
Nov 19 '17 at 1:21, by bwDraco
Here's one thing where this monitor is obviously better: It's less dependent on warming up. My Acer H226HQL tended to require quite a few minutes to reach the intended brightness, and its brightness would change dramatically depending on the ambient temperature.
("this monitor" refers to my newer Dell gaming monitor)
 
Bob
Bob
Sooooo. CCFL?
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
@Bob It's LED.
 
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco Model?
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
8:44 AM
Could a driver update cause that?
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
@Bob H226HQL.
 
Bob
Bob
LEDs generally don't have warmup times, much less on the scale of "minutes".
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
Cheap 1080p IPS display.
@Bob It's not merely a matter of "warming up". The brightness can and will measurably change even after hours of continuous operation if the ambient temperature changes significantly. Just ask my colorimeter.
 
Bob
Bob
Weird.
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
Nov 19 '17 at 1:23, by bwDraco
The Acer's dependence on ambient temperature made it a pain in the butt to calibrate.
We still have a CCFL monitor in service (used with aforementioned K8 machine) and it wasn't this dependent on ambient temperature.
I've had this Acer monitor for years and it's always been like this.
Could be an oddity with the inverter.
(yes, LED monitors do have inverters)
Hmm... "inverter" is probably a misnomer here – it should be called "LED driver".
 
user226528
8:58 AM
@bwDraco I know. That wasn't my point. The point was: AMD initially said "it doesn't affect our chip", causing Intel stock to plummet.
 
user226528
Not that I own any of their shares.
 
user226528
The point is the irony of things.
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
Regardless of what is powering the backlight, it obviously needs to be temperature-compensated but evidently isn't.
 
Burgi
Burgi
morning
 
Burgi
Burgi
9:13 AM
this bitbucket outage has occured at exactly the wrong time
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
something something u use external service?
 
Burgi
Burgi
yes
its our code repository
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
but but :/
this is why 'cloud' is so funny
if you don't also run local infra to back it up.
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@Bob Good catch. Undeleted and upvoted.
 
Burgi
Burgi
its either we run the cloud version of source control or we don't run it at all
we don't have the resources or technical knowledge to host the repo inhouse
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
9:25 AM
@Burgi There's your answer then. Hire somebody who has the knowledge ...
 
Burgi
Burgi
i refer you to the earlier qualifier
> we don't have the resources
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@Burgi That's why I said hire. You should be using the cloud for backup not active version control.
 
Burgi
Burgi
@DavidPostill i'd love you to pitch to our directors that we need a DevOps person plus associated infrastructure
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@Burgi =)
@Burgi they seem to love risk. I'll leave them to it
@Burgi Is there a right time, btw?
i guess middle of the night or something
 
Burgi
Burgi
tbf this is the first outage i've had with the cloud version of bitbucket in the 5 or so years i've used it
@djsmiley2k i'm not following you
> Enterprise teams $1,800 per year
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
9:47 AM
@Burgi you said it's happened at the wrong time...
fair enough. I just expect all things to fail, all the time.
my go to question is 'what if it fails'
 
Burgi
Burgi
@djsmiley2k sorry i had my head up my arse
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
hmmm nah
1. you've got a lot of crap to deal with
2. it doesn't appear to actually be your job to know/manage this stuff, even though you seem to end up doing so, unfortunately.
 
Bob
Bob
@DavidPostill Thanks. Commented on it so if the user decides to stick around he'll know what's going on.
 
Burgi
Burgi
10:34 AM
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
hmmmm
lines are hard to draw
 
Burgi
Burgi
agreed
there was a lady on the radio this morning making some good arguments about the french letter
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
10:53 AM
I've not read the article yet.
but... french letter?
 
Burgi
Burgi
read the article
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
will do when work less bonkers
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
11:12 AM
@Bob ROFL
 
Burgi
Burgi
i've been given some weirdly organised data, i'm not sure how to write my db query for it or if i need to refactor the table 
# id, floorarea, overlayparts, overlaylabour, redfloorparts, redfloorlabour, created_at, updated_at
'1', '5.00', '362.95', '136.11', '362.95', '136.11', NULL, NULL
'2', '12.00', '1064.32', '399.12', '726.93', '272.60', NULL, NULL
'3', '20.00', '1401.71', '525.64', '936.52', '351.19', NULL, NULL
'4', '30.00', '2375.04', '890.64', '1320.94', '495.35', NULL, NULL
thats nonsense data by
 
Bob
Bob
ParseError: missing required context
 
Burgi
Burgi
yeah, i'm still trying to parse it myself
not sure what i'm asking for
its very noisy in the office today
 
Burgi
Burgi
11:38 AM
ok so the missing context is that the enduser enters a floor area of 24m^2 i need to select the nearest prices based on that
i'm going to use a nearest neighbour i think. based on this answer: stackoverflow.com/a/19347675/2505109
sorry for rubber ducking
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
0
A: bluetooth headphones cut out whenever I turn my head

allquixoticThere are three basic types of Bluetooth radio range: Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3. Here are the maximum and expected/average ranges for each class: Class 3: 1 meter / 3.2 feet maximum; about 0.5 meter / 1.6 feet average Class 2: 10 meters / 33 feet maximum; about 2-5 meters / 6.5-16 feet ave...

could be poorly designed Class 2, or the poor guy lives in a dorm with 4 guys to a room and hundreds of base stations in range
 
Burgi
Burgi
@allquixotic i know you can map wifi strength with an app and get a sort of heatmap type thing. can you do the same with bluetooth?
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
11:57 AM
@Burgi costings?
'floor area' -- how big is the floor
 
Burgi
Burgi
yeah
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
how many overlay parts at cost x, how much overlay labour at cost y, how many red floor parts at cost z, how much laybour at cost aa......
Not sure what ID is, do they get cheaper rates for larger areas? (I've not done the math to see if it's cheaper)
362.95/5 * 12 =.... 1064.32?
they seem to be charged less.
@Burgi it's a tuple.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@Burgi Not usually, because you'd need a Bluetooth stack exposed to the application that's "visible" -- for that, on iOS you'd need jailbreak, and on Android you'd need root. On desktop Linux you could probably build such an app with BlueZ, which is pretty examinable.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
or a php array...
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
It's extremely annoying but a fact of life that on most proprietary platforms (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) the Bluetooth stack can't easily be examined or queried for details about the Bluetooth signal, codec, status, etc.
 
Bob
Bob
12:01 PM
@allquixotic nice
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
12:13 PM
whoop
the feeling of actually doing 'work' and not just the mundane stuff, and getting it right and it working \o/
 
user226528
12:30 PM
Question. What was the last time Rahul was seen in this room?
 
Burgi
Burgi
!!seen @rahuldottech
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
@Burgi That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
Burgi
Burgi
!!help
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
@Burgi Information on interacting with me can be found at this page
 
user226528
!!/seen @rahuldottech
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
12:34 PM
@FleetCommand That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
Burgi
Burgi
hmm...
 
user226528
Zirak? I wonder what that means...
 
Burgi
Burgi
!!user @rahuldottech
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
@Burgi Command deprecated. If you want it to stay, ping Zirak.
 
Burgi
Burgi
welp i tried
@rahuldottech where are you?
 
user226528
12:39 PM
In video games, antagonists use "welp" a lot
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
!!seen @rahuldottech
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
@djsmiley2k That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
:O
 
user226528
Did anyone know there is a systempropertiesprotection command in Windows?
 
user226528
I didn't.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
12:59 PM
what's it do?
 
user226528
It invokes System Properties, on the System Protection tab.
 
user226528
Wow!
 
user226528
There is a whole fleet of them there!
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
Oh right.
 
user226528
> SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe
> SystemPropertiesComputerName.exe
> SystemPropertiesDataExecutionPrevention.exe
> SystemPropertiesHardware.exe
> SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe
> SystemPropertiesProtection.exe
> SystemPropertiesRemote.exe
 
user226528
1:05 PM
Okay, this is weird... there is a command named "spaceman"!
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
run it
 
user226528
Oh...
 
user226528
That was storage space manager
 
user226528
Hence, spaceman.
 
user226528
like taskman for Task Manager
 
Burgi
Burgi
1:06 PM
you killed major tom!
today of all days!
 
user226528
"Major Tom?" There is something familiar about it. Maybe a song or something?
 
user226528
Oh, yeah.
 
user226528
Or maybe not; maybe, oh no.
 
user226528
"ScanHealth", "CheckHealth", "RestoreHealth"... I can't remember it. Though I am sure I do have a copy of DISM lying around.
 
user226528
Well, I guess it is time to panic.
 
user226528
1:18 PM
Component cleanup operation removed a bunch of Registry key and I told it to make a backup. The back size is now at 587 MB.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Hm. I think my phone screen is damaged. Dropped it and seeing a spreading purple stain.
 
Burgi
Burgi
are you on holiday @JourneymanGeek? you've not been around much the last week or so
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Yup
 
Burgi
Burgi
enjoying it?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
And there's no internet here, and I'm teathering off my mom's phone.
 
Burgi
Burgi
1:24 PM
:(
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
So far good?
 
Burgi
Burgi
good chance to catch up on reading
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Other than the phone thing
 
Burgi
Burgi
sit on the beach, have an ice cream and read a good book
 
user226528
LOL. I once did that. The book didn't survive the tide.
 
user226528
1:26 PM
Good thing it wasn't a Kindle.
 
Burgi
Burgi
o.O
how did you not notice the tide?
 
user226528
Well, Dumbledore had just died. What did you expect?
 
Burgi
Burgi
"oh my feet are getting wet maybe i should move..."
also not entirely sure who or what a dumbledore is
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I'm kinda near the mountains
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@Burgi :O
 
user226528
1:31 PM
@Burgi If you wanna know what "Dumbledore" is, Google it. If you want to know why I didn't notice my feet getting wet, try watching Piper from Pixar.
 
Burgi
Burgi
@JourneymanGeek any lakes or small forests?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Not really.
Been around visiting
 
user226528
Boy, I love mountains, especially if they are misty or covered with green plants. (I don't care if green plants are moss or huge trees.)
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
What happens to unrewarded bounty? :/
 
Burgi
Burgi
i thought the system awarded it automatically
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
1:39 PM
I think this, but as the only answer has no votes. I wonder if it will
Actually, I can upvote the answer ;D
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
483
Q: How does the bounty system work?

A. Rex What is a bounty? What is the "Featured" tab on the homepage? How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached? How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? What is the minimum amount of rep I can offer a bounty for? Can I use Markdown formatting in the bounty remarks? Can I edi...

support faq bounty
> What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered? / What is automatic awarding?

Approximately 24 hours after the end of the bounty period (once the grace period ends), if the bounty starter has not manually awarded the bounty, the bounty may be awarded automatically.

If the author offered the bounty, and accepted an answer that was posted during the bounty period, that answer is awarded the full bounty.

Otherwise, all or half of the bounty is awarded to the highest-scored answer out of those which...
The bounty is never refunded (no matter what!), but the bounty may be auto awarded in whole or in part depending on the conditions of the existing answers
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
needs a +2
ah well I'll manually reward it then
Wolfdog
A wolfdog (also called a wolf–dog hybrid or wolf hybrid) is a canid hybrid resulting from the hybridization of a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) to one of four other Canis sub-species, the gray (Canis lupus), eastern timber (Canis lycaon), red (Canis rufus), and Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis). == Description == Intra-hybridization between dogs and other subspecies of gray wolves are the most common wolfdogs since dogs and gray wolves are considered the same species, are genetically very close, and have shared vast portions of their ranges for millennia. Such hybridization in the wild have...
 
FML Cat
FML Cat
Sausage dog
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
2:01 PM
I call all dogs wolves without qualification because that’s what they are
They even say “wolf” to you all the time as if to correct blasphemous references to “dog”
 
user226528
...says a vampire-cat. ;)
 
user226528
Dogs are not wolves. They are canines and wolf-like canids.
 
user226528
It is like macOS, which is not a Linux, but it is Unix-like.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@FleetCommand how do you define a dog, and then a wolf?
 
Bob
Bob
@FleetCommand s/-like//
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
2:07 PM
because you'll find they are one and the same
 
user226528
Technically, the root word, "Canidae" is Latin for "dog". But imported words don't always have the same meaning as their original. An example is the word [pi-shi] from Persian, which is a mainstream word for "cat" in that language. It came to English and became "p***y", which does NOT mean "cat" in mainstream English.
 
Burgi
Burgi
@FleetCommand Puffy?
pokey?
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
Also because the usage of a word is bastardised, does not make the meaning of word wrong.
 
Bob
Bob
Puss in Boots
"Master Cat, or The Booted Cat" (Italian: Il gatto con gli stivali; French: Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté), commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest telling is by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who included it in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola (c. 1550–53) in XIV–XV. Another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title Cagliuso, and a tale was written in French...
 
Burgi
Burgi
pushy? (say it in a scottish accent)
 
user226528
2:10 PM
@djsmiley2k "Wrong" is an unwieldy word here. We have syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse-level correctness. You have to mind all.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@FleetCommand sure. But my point stands, a twat is a female fish, a bitch is a female dog, a bastard is he whom is born out of wedlock and a cat maybe a pussy. Those are all still valid meanings of those words.
 
Burgi
Burgi
@FleetCommand you worry too much about political correctness
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@Burgi I don't. and I'm glad @JourneymanGeek isn't here to nuke me. ;D
 
user226528
@djsmiley2k Sure.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
Now I don't doubt some ejit is about to flag that too, because they find english words offensive.
Also I found a bug in Cisco's IOS this morning \o./
 
Bob
Bob
2:13 PM
@djsmiley2k Eh, we've always taken a stance that the context matters more than the literal words used.
"we" as in owners and native mods in this room
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@Bob the context in this case is me explaining the valid meaning of each word....
 
Bob
Bob
As for SE as a whole... *shrug* it's an open debate.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
so surely I'm fine?
Also, I'm being nice.
 
user226528
Discourse-level correctness is too close to politics.
 
Bob
Bob
@djsmiley2k I would say yes. But actual flags go out to hundreds of random people, of which it only takes something like 5-10 to auto-ban, so the system is broken anyway.
 
user226528
2:14 PM
For example, an actor is a technically an artist, but you won't find Brad Pitt introducing himself as an artist to a stranger, unless he wants to remain anonymous.
 
user226528
Of course, that stranger has to be geek like me.
 
user226528
!!/flagged
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
 
Burgi
Burgi
i think brad pitt would find it difficult to go anywhere and not meet someone who knew who he was
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
nod.
 
user226528
2:17 PM
My clubmates probably spot Hiedi Earnest faster than Angelina Jolie.
 
Burgi
Burgi
david beckham had to go to a remote tribe in the amazon rainforest to find someone who didn't know who he was
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@Bob and so I choose to ignore the broken system and carry on with my life. I'm not going to get to change it no matter how hard I try! :(
 
user226528
He could have come to my club... ;)
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
I recall goin to bulgaria
a waiter asked where we were from
We said Coventry
and he goes "Ah! Dion Dublin!"
 
user226528
LOL
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
2:18 PM
that was..... odd.
 
user226528
One of my buddies just said there is a simulation app called "WASABI". Fancy that...
 
user226528
To simulate the outcome of eating too much wasabi... ;0
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
Didn't Cars 2 explain that?
 
user226528
Vividly.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
Oooo
bitbucket outage on el reg.
 
Burgi
Burgi
2:21 PM
its not a 2 day outage
 
user226528
@djsmiley2k When I was watching that, a person sitting close to me was kind enough to provide the translation of what the wasabi vendor said to Mater.
 
Burgi
Burgi
they had it fixed at 0221
 
user226528
God, why is there such delay for my messages?
 
user226528
11 seconds until the edit took effect.
 
Burgi
Burgi
> Problems arose yesterday (January 9) at 13:47 UTC
that isn't 2 days ago
> Naturally, users took to Twitter to vent.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
2:38 PM
lol
if you're in Oz it is, eh @Bob ?
 
Bob
Bob
@djsmiley2k 1:40 AM, 11th Jan
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
:O
See :)
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
Subspecies of Canis lupus
Canis lupus has 38 subspecies currently described, including the dingo, Canis lupus dingo, and the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, and many subspecies of wolf throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The nominate subspecies is Canis lupus lupus. Canis lupus is assessed as least concern by the IUCN, as its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species, at global level, does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories. However, some local populations are classified as endangered, and some subspecies are endangered or extinct. Biological...
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
hmmm, hurrrrgh
developers asking why ftp was failing yesterday (or two days ago in @Burgi's case)
I see packet out of order dropped messages.... but I don't know why
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
> The dog is a divergent subspecies of the gray wolf and was derived from a now-extinct population of Late Pleistocene wolves.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
2:40 PM
suggestions on a postcard.
@FleetCommand do you remember what it was?
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@djsmiley2k lol. Are you from Coventry or were you sent to Coventry :)
@FleetCommand You own a club?
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
From Coventry :P
 
user226528
3:03 PM
@djsmiley2k Yeah. The Japanese vendor said, in a mournful voice, "My condolences!"
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
lol
 
user226528
There was also Despicable Me, when Gru said something in Spanish to the orphanage lady. I heartily laughed without even knowing what it meant, 'cause I didn't expect any less from Gru. Later, I looked up the translation. God, I was right. LOL.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
3:16 PM
Wolf.
 
Blog bot
Blog bot
Farewell, Winter Bash 2017!
Abby T. Mars on January 10, 2018

Last week, we bid farewell to Winter Bash and packed our Greatest Hats back into their boxes. It’s always a little sad to see the hats get put away for the year, but I always like to soothe my sorrows by reminiscing. (It’s only been a week and I’m nostalgic already.)

These hat shots came from the MSE community. Check them all out here!

The very first hat to be earned was Foot of the Rainbow, earned by Eran on Stack Overflow mere minutes after the event began. The first secret hat (spoiler alert) was awarded almost immediately thereafter: Ooh, Shiny! went to Olaf, also on Stack Overflow. A whoppi …

 
user226528
I asked a colleague to recommend a comedy film or TV series, and he wrote back "SMILE". There is no record of such a thing.
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
I count at least 3 distinct films there, all called 'Smile'
8 infact.
 
user226528
Not "Smile". "SMILE". Or probably "S.M.I.L.E.".
 
user226528
3:32 PM
Let's see if there is a listing of 2017 comedy shows on Wikipedia.
 
user226528
On the bright side, I am going to watch Coco.
 
user226528
@djsmiley2k Also comedy, not horror.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I think this is one of those answers that would probably be best to delete: superuser.com/a/369111/59052
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
3:49 PM
ok I think my rank in rocket league is actually glitched :(
@AaronHall ??
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@AaronHall Why?
 
XKCD
XKCD
 
djsmiley2k
djsmiley2k
@XKCD shrinking due togoverment stuff/cost cuttiung
 
user226528
4:41 PM
Well, I never though XKCD coud one day become completely nonsense.
 
user226528
So, I believe a new comic strip will emerge soon to fill the void.
 
bertieb
bertieb
4:52 PM
@FleetCommand SMBC, you say
(arguably Abstruse Goose is closer in style)
 
Burgi
Burgi
5:46 PM
i'm still struggling with this stupid price table
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
@DavidPostill Because the answer appears outdated. The functionality is now found in xfce itself. Maybe it's ok as a non-accepted answer, but it sucks as an accepted answer. It seems to me that it's just noise between a searcher looking for an answer and their goal. Maybe I'm wrong, as I'm not an expert on XFCE (yet) but I think it unlikely...
I've downvoted this because the functionality appears to now be built-in to XFCE (as another answer tells us) making this a suboptimal answer. If it weren't pinned to the top, I probably wouldn't bother downvoting or writing this. — Aaron Hall 14 secs ago
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@AaronHall Fine. But that's not a reason to delete an answer.
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A: Edit new info into outdated answer or let new answer rise to the top

MokubaiComment on the now outdated answers and upvote those that are correct. If the outdated answers get updated, then upvote them then. They need to use their own words. It feels like you'd be punishing someone for being right by editing their answer into the other answers. That way everyone gets...

 
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