#editorial | Logs for 2021-02-16
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[01:16:02] <Bytram> http://feedproxy.google.com
[01:16:04] <systemd> ^ 03Dinosaur-killing comet may have come from the edge of the solar system ( https://www.cnet.com )
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[03:24:13] <Bytram> =asub https://www.news-medical.net
[03:24:16] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Study Broadens the Definition of Self-injury Mortality to Encompass Most Drug Overdose Deaths" (18p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[03:24:49] <Bytram> =asub https://mashable.com
[03:24:51] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Apple is Offering Free Apple Watch Repairs to Fix Power Reserve Charging Issue" (0p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[03:40:48] <chromas> well, I probably should've given you the option to boot evraone from the channel instead of doing it mese'f
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[04:59:55] <Fnord666> Welp looks like 7 is not the lucky number for that particular SpaceX booster.
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[18:51:28] <Bytram> =blame
[18:51:28] * systemd points at Bytram
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[20:47:00] <Bytram> =eds anybody here?
[20:47:00] <systemd> ^ Editor ping for Bytram, chromas, cmn32480, CoolHand, FatPhil, Fnord666, fyngyrz, janrinok, mrpg, n1, nick, spiraldancing, takyon
[20:49:03] <chromas> Did you account for leapseconds in your story?
[20:49:11] <Bytram> nooope!
[20:49:30] <Bytram> I am looking at wordsalad atm
[20:50:11] <Bytram> would you be able to review https://soylentnews.org
[20:50:13] <systemd> ^ 03Happy Anniversary SoylentNews -- Seven Whole Years Since Go-Live! - SoylentNews
[20:50:28] <chromas> I see a nice "<em>em</em>"
[20:50:51] * Bytram is not surprised
[20:51:25] <Bytram> s/em/we/2
[20:51:33] <Bytram> chromas: s/em/we/2
[20:51:33] <SedBot> <Bytram> <chromas> I see a nice "<em>we</em>"
[20:51:50] <Bytram> then: s/be//
[20:52:03] <Bytram> chromas++
[20:52:03] <Bender> karma - chromas: 195
[20:54:51] <Bytram> All tolled, I'd estimate those 1,100 words took the better part of 4 hours.
[20:56:45] <chromas> "We had a few hiccups and a burp or two"
[20:56:55] <chromas> the end has a comma. Should it be a colon or anything?
[20:57:00] <Bytram> yes, we did.
[20:57:05] <Bytram> hmmm
[20:57:10] <chromas> (end of the line, I mean, not the sentend)
[20:57:55] <Bytram> Looks okay to me? " We had a few hiccups and a burp or two, but the site has held up pretty well over the past year."
[20:58:36] * Bytram attempted to instill some levity
[20:58:43] <chromas> no, there's a comma at the end instead of a period
[20:59:03] <chromas> YOU DIDN'T COPY AND PASTE THAT AT ALL, MISTER!
[20:59:20] * chromas takes away Bytram's sammich
[20:59:38] <Bytram> stomach growls
[20:59:44] * Bytram reloads story
[21:00:44] <Bytram> Oh! Now I see it. ...
[21:01:46] <Bytram> chromas: <p>We had a few hiccups and a burp or two, but the site held up pretty well over the past year, all-in-all.</p>
[21:02:09] * chromas sets it to non-out-none
[21:02:23] <Bytram> chromas++ LoL!
[21:02:23] <Bender> karma - chromas: 196
[21:02:50] <Bytram> wee wee miss ewer!
[21:03:11] <chromas> I haven't saved yet, but so far I've sprinkled in some more <tt>s, changed "--" to "—" in the title and a partridge in a pear tree
[21:04:41] <Bytram> nod nod, very much appreciated! Except I try to avoid using any non-ASCII chars in the title.
[21:05:06] <chromas> sounds dirty
[21:05:44] <chromas> Should I change the "random statistics" to be an unordered list?
[21:06:22] <Bytram> IIRC, it might have some to do with our RSS feed? Or maybe when we e-mail out stories or summaries, etc.
[21:06:57] <Bytram> WTF? It was in a table!
[21:07:23] <Bytram> <table border="1">
[21:07:24] <Bytram> <tr><td>Journals:</td><td>2,161</td></tr>
[21:07:24] <Bytram> <tr><td>Stories:</td><td>3,927</td></tr>
[21:07:24] <Bytram> <tr><td>Moderations:</td><td>114,020</td></tr>
[21:07:24] <Bytram> <tr><td>Comments:</td><td>155,098</td></tr>
[21:07:24] <Bytram> </table>
[21:08:06] <chromas> it's got <br>s now instead
[21:08:12] <chromas> thanks, rehash. threhash
[21:09:32] <Bytram> that was from the buffer/screen I was editing/previewing it from.
[21:09:48] <chromas> ew
[21:09:57] <chromas> we need some css to collapse the table borders
[21:10:26] <Bytram> try: <table border="1" cellspacing="0">
[21:11:26] <Bytram> nope
[21:11:47] <chromas> rehash strips out the embedded css
[21:11:48] <chromas> fpos
[21:11:58] <chromas> time to hack on the theme templates
[21:13:41] <Bytram> warning -- it is a swirling mess of confusion, from what I recall. I especially remember paulej72 cursing at the code.
[21:15:05] <Bytram> I've looked at it some, to fix an issue we'd had with an omitted closing tag wreaking havoc through the rest of the page
[21:15:11] <chromas> eh, I'll just let it be ugly. we're supposed to like that anyhow
[21:15:35] <Bytram> who you lookin' at?
[21:16:30] <chromas> all the css would need is something like .article.body.table{border:1px}
[21:16:48] <chromas> maybe it needs spaces; don't remember
[21:16:52] <Bytram> chromas++ thanks so very much for giving it a solid review -- it was starting to get all swirly on me!
[21:16:52] <Bender> karma - chromas: 197
[21:16:58] <chromas> .article .body .table{border:1px}
[21:19:04] <chromas> Bytram++ thanks for the increment
[21:19:04] <Bender> karma - bytram: 118
[21:19:18] <Bytram> My pleasure!
[21:19:36] <chromas> You probably still want to have someone else take a look though
[21:19:44] <Bytram> Writing is harder than it looks!
[21:20:02] <Bytram> what time to you have?
[21:20:08] <chromas> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com
[21:20:14] <Bytram> I think the story release date/time has passed
[21:20:32] <chromas> apparently someone's in the area shooting footage for a movie over our nearby river
[21:20:39] <chromas> 13:20
[21:20:40] <Bytram> chromas: Gesundheit!
[21:21:00] <Bytram> UTC?
[21:21:08] <chromas> pst
[21:21:36] <Bytram> I've got: 2021-02-16 21:21:24 UTC
[21:21:48] <chromas> so I guess utc would be 20:21
[21:21:50] <chromas> yeah
[21:22:24] <chromas> I missed an extra hour
[21:22:36] <chromas> we're -8 now
[21:23:04] <Bytram> wait a minute... I'm so confused. How much time do we have until the story is due to be released?
[21:23:05] <chromas> DST should be murdered to death
[21:23:17] <Bytram> and then some
[21:23:49] <chromas> 4½ hours, looks like
[21:24:27] * chromas looks at the localtime column without checking to see if it's acurrate
[21:24:31] <Bytram> Better still, move the entire Northeast (CT, MA, VT, NH, and ME into the Atlantic time zone!)
[21:24:42] <Bytram> whew!
[21:25:08] <Bytram> for some reason I thought the release date/time was imminent
[21:25:20] <Bytram> like 15 minutes ago
[21:25:25] <chromas> and move Seattle, Portland southern Cal entirely into the Pacific ocean
[21:25:55] <chromas> well it's no-display so it won't show up anyhow
[21:26:04] <Bytram> or... move the pacific ocean over them, instead?
[21:26:30] <chromas> that'll work
[21:26:46] <Bytram> If we've got a few hours, then I'll take a break, get some lunch, and take another look at it.
[21:26:54] <chromas> although, either way, the drawback is that the ocean will be suddenly full of millions of dirty needles
[21:27:13] <Bytram> Thanks again for reviewing it! MUCH obliged!
[21:27:41] <chromas> you're welcome and thanks for the obligement
[21:27:58] <Bytram> =g obligement
[21:27:59] <systemd> https://www.merriam-webster.com - Obligement | Definition of Obligement by Merriam-Webster
[21:28:10] <Bytram> it's... a word?
[21:28:42] <chromas> it's like an irc channel: using it causes it to come into existence
[21:29:21] <Bytram> =g quoth the raven nevermore
[21:29:21] <systemd> https://www.poetryfoundation.org - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry Foundation
[21:29:36] <Bytram> afk; biab
[21:29:42] <Bytram> #sammich
[21:29:42] * MrPlow whips up a roasted bull testicles sammich for Bytram
[21:29:48] <Bytram> ewwwwww!
[23:28:58] <Bytram> https://soylentnews.org
[23:29:01] <systemd> ^ 03Answers, Operations, and Finances - SoylentNews
[23:53:25] <Fnord666> s/yuu/you/ in your story Bytram
[23:54:16] <Bytram> Fnord666: Got it! THANKS!
[23:54:50] <Fnord666> Looking good so far!
[23:55:37] <Bytram> WTF! I *had* changed all references to staff nicks to point to their user page on the site... and now all I see is <tt>nick</tt> !!?????
[23:57:01] <Bytram> and the counts of their stories posted, are gone, too!
[23:58:20] <Bytram> it's like 300-400 words shorter.
[23:58:53] <Bytram> Fnord666: Appreciate your looking at it!
[23:59:33] <Bytram> How much time do we have before it goes live?
[23:59:51] * Bytram take are really deep breath and sighs.