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Jul 18 15:04

Yeah, SRE has been working on it for a bit :)

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May 27 13:37

@wizzwizz4 I'm not sure I'm following. What is the issue being reported? (If it's sensitive in nature I can make a private chatroom for us)

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May 20 00:28

It is how I was hired. I told Philippe, "I am trustworthy, and there is no cause for concern in hiring me." He said, "Wow, you said that so confidently that it must be true," and hired me.

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May 20 00:25

Do not worry. I am completely trustworthy.

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May 19 22:11

Never a dull day

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May 19 22:07

@HenryWHHackv3.0 I'm pretty chipper

The h Bar

General chat for Physics SE (physics.stackexchange.com). For M...

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Apr 16 21:27

Hi!

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Apr 16 21:27

If you want to explore Staging Ground here - well, we haven't turned it on anywhere but Stack Overflow, so far. I have no idea what sort of work would be required. But I would recommend taking a bit of time to explore how it works on Stack Overflow. Then discuss it a bit on Physics Meta.

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Feb 10 18:42

book

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Nov 26, 2024 16:36

I mean, Arrow's theorem is just a theorem, but the article sort of leaves completely unanswered why Arrow's theorem should be considered the causative agent in jury evaluations seeming subjectively worse than single-agent evaluations

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Nov 26, 2024 16:35

@User1865345 the mathematical argument here seems dubious

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Nov 18, 2024 18:48

What a horror; a whole person taken and reduced to a tag label. To celebrate her birthday in such reduced form is mere consolation. I wish only to restore her from margaret-atwood to her physical form some day.

Charcoal HQ

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Feb 4 23:05

You too!

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Feb 4 23:04

@Slate probably in the clear; dev's monitoring for ~1 hr further. I won't be monitoring actively personally - at my EOD - but if it falls over it won't go unnoticed

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Feb 4 23:03

and I was just writing ;)

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Feb 4 22:28

FYI - we're performing a deployment imminently related to this morning's downtime incident that may break the public API on the platform. If broken, it may go down for at most 5-10 minutes while we perform a rollback. Please report quickly if you see signs of dysfunction (but do not be alarmed); we'll be monitoring as well on our end.

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Feb 4 17:16

nice

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Feb 4 17:11

Rollback should be complete

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Jan 30 04:27

@Anerdw o/

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Dec 11, 2024 16:19

Q: What’s on your mind?

You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind? When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful? I’ve spent the last few months thinking about the state of the Stack Exchange network and wher...

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Nov 19, 2024 20:15

brb sending an advance notice email to all spammers

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Nov 19, 2024 20:14

cc folks here

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Nov 19, 2024 20:13

Q: Public Site API Maintenance -Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thursday, November 21, 03:00 UTC - Thursday, November 21, 04:00 UTC)

We will be doing a quick failover test of api.stackexchange.com on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thursday, November 21, 03:00 UTC - Thursday, November 21, 04:00 UTC). During this time, the public API will only allow GET routes. PUT, POST, and DELETE routes will be unavailab...

support announcements maintenance

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Oct 16, 2024 14:56

@Cow o/

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Sep 3, 2024 16:07

(I don't have any insider info here.)

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Sep 3, 2024 16:07

I'm putting $1 on "the SmokeDetector repository was a false positive in a spam detection system," just for the irony.

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Aug 15, 2024 23:08

Ah, in that case, you should do that. I want to see what happens.

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Aug 15, 2024 23:00

All of them? I think the internet will be OK, but I know some audio engineers who will be very unhappy with you

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Aug 15, 2024 22:58

Probably wise. I'll get started on that by turning off the API again.

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Aug 15, 2024 22:51

Please ignore the microphone that is recording your response.

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Aug 15, 2024 22:51

Good point. In your honest opinion, is the entire Stack Overflow community untrustworthy by extension?

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Aug 15, 2024 22:49

But maybe that just means you shouldn't trust me, either ;)

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Aug 15, 2024 22:48

@Dragonrage I mean, as an ex-dev watching the proceedings, I can honestly say I was genuinely surprised that there was a second issue hiding in this case.

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Aug 15, 2024 22:35

yeah we're calling it stable for now. Shout if you experience anything nontransient

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Aug 15, 2024 22:30

Joking, joking, I'm not going to have the same level of hubris twice in a row. Gotta tone it back at least a little.

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Aug 15, 2024 22:30

it's fixed

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Aug 15, 2024 22:26

@Mithical That's fine. h/t to certain... strangely acerbic... comments directed at developers. I'd rather take them. Lol.

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Aug 15, 2024 22:24

@Mithical I had a funny feeling when I wrote it that it would be hubris in hindsight. Too simple. Too easy.

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May 14, 2024 14:46

Not that I don't trust y'all ;)

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May 14, 2024 14:46

Yeah, I sort of went by "least access" principles tbh. If access isn't needed, granting something introduces risk. Even just human error. Decided better to just not mess with it and keep em separate.

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May 14, 2024 14:43

@Spevacus Well I can see where I'm wanted. Hah.

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May 14, 2024 14:43

@Mast Eventually, probably on an as-needed basis.

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May 14, 2024 14:41

Chipper. [ba dum tss]

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May 14, 2024 14:41

Hi.

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May 14, 2024 14:41

Cheep chorp.

$Mathematics$ Mathematics

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Dec 11, 2024 16:29

What's on your mind?, an invitation to discussion on Meta Stack Exchange

$Mathematics$ 2024 Mathematics Stack Exchange Moder…

Open discussion for math.stackexchange.com/election/10

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Aug 7, 2024 19:12

But as far as directly managing network traffic is concerned, for now, my opinion is that it's something for us (Stack Exchange) to worry about, more than it is something for mods to worry about, even though community building is of course within the scope of what moderators do.

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Aug 7, 2024 19:10

No problem @Xander. Thanks for the ping.

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Aug 7, 2024 19:10

I also want to say that as far as moderators' stewardship of the network is concerned, decreases in traffic aren't strictly negative (yes yes, except insofar as they are decreases, I always have to remember I'm talking to mathematicians here ;). Still, in my personal opinion, meaningful changes in traffic are important for mods to be mindful of, particularly since they can significantly change site culture.

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Aug 7, 2024 19:08

Based on the evidence available to me, I don't have cause to believe that the decline in post rate on Math Stack Exchange is unique network-wide, or directly caused by a particular decision the moderators or community here made. It's always possible I could discover evidence that might implicate some community decision, of course, but given that nothing stands out on review, I'm probably not going to spend too much time looking.