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Jack Douglas replying to Anonymous 1915

@@@ question 211

Anonymous 1915

Do we need a math channel? Math.se is hugely popular

Jack Douglas

Clever :) — also it is no trouble at all!

samcarter replying to Jack Douglas

Thanks for the merge! And sorry for all the account troubles with the tex community - maybe we need a latex package  which downloads and nicely typesets the key as pdf so we don't lose it :)

Jack Douglas

thanks @samcarter :)

Jack Douglas replying to samcarter

@@@ answer 1944

samcarter

@Jack we have another case of lost login key on the tex site. It looks like there is no associated stackexchange account or email address,  but in my opinion the language pattern etc seem to be consistent with the previous account. Is this enough to merge?  (see https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=347&id=93240&year=2021&month=3#c93240 for details)

samcarter

Do we already have some "What to do if I lost my login key" question? As this seems to happen fairly regularly it might be useful to start such a post if we don't already have one.

joulev

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joulev replying to samcarter *— 18 hours ago* *in [Problem with lua pattern matching](/tex?q=1710#c92641)*  
>Trick: if you also select text that is not in a code block (for example, from "correctly?"), you can copy all code blocks at one. Tested with Chrome and Firefox, however in FF somehow there is a blank line between every line.
:::

joulev replying to Jack Douglas

Yes, I also noticed that but it looked more like a workaround than a fix for me. Also the newline problem only appears in FF. I wonder why.

Jack Douglas replying to joulev

You can do that if you begin the selection outside any of the code blocks (or at least I can on macOS/FF). It seems to add extra newlines to the code blocks though, maybe that's the real bug?

joulev replying to Jack Douglas

Of course copying more than one code blocks at the same time is not usual, but I think if one select from a point to another point in a page, one should expect the selection to cover everything between them, no matter what those points are.

marmot replying to Jack Douglas

Yes, precisely.

Jack Douglas replying to joulev

not sure whether to call that a bug — if you have three separate code blocks CTRL-A should only select one of them at a time. There is no obvious way to have 'in-block' syntax highlighting changes, you really need a mixed mode highlighting plugin that recognises the lua bits (if that's even possible)

Jack Douglas replying to marmot

is that because the scroll bar appears and overlays the icons?

marmot

I have a somewhat related problem. On Safari one has to fine-tune the width of the chat column to be able to press the reply button. The tuning depends on the message, i.e. one has to readjust the width basically for every reply. I am wondering if I am the only one with this problem.

joulev

Not a serious bug but might be something worth looking to.

joulev replying to Jack Douglas

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samcarter *— 3 hours ago* *in [Problem with lua pattern matching](/tex?q=1710#c92631)*  
>@निरंजन, re: [your question](#question), btw I removed the additional lua code block just because I could not copy the document in one go otherwise. Not sure if this is my browser or this site, but I can't select more than one codeblock at once, but being able to copy the code seemed more useful than syntax highlighting 
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samcarter

mmm, that's not as far away as I though.

James Douglas

It looks like ESR 91.0 will be released on 2021-07-13 if [this page](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar#Future_branch_dates) is correct. I assume that roughly corresponds to regular 91.0 feature-wise.

samcarter replying to James Douglas

Will probably be a while, ESR is at 78 at the moment - but that's something nice to look forward to!

James Douglas

I wonder when it will be in ESR...

samcarter replying to James Douglas

OHHHH!

James Douglas

@samcarter  remember that Firefox extension that doesn't work anymore, that highlighted search results in the scrollbar?  
  
![Screenshot 2021-03-26 at 15.35.26.png](/image?hash=3893419ab8f720f12455994606ddec0f57a10fa50b970ee0f5831db2186885f0)

Monica

Codidact has been talking about a "power user" community, but it hasn't launched yet so that doesn't help you now.

PeterVandivier

i've been asking questions i get from using my macbook over on nix.ta but that might not be appropriate for your issue depending on the details 🤷‍♂️

Pax

Something like apple.SE or superuser.SE

Pax

Does anyone know any community where I can ask MacOS questions? Codidact doesn't have one either.

samcarter

I also tried with a password manager, but it does not seem to recognise the field for the key as password and thus does not automatically open to insert the password. As manually copy&pasting from the PW manager is a bit annoying, I am working around this with a userscript that automatically creates the cookie with the login key... not really secure but at leat I don't have to copy & paste it each time.

joulev replying to Diaa

I use a password manager to save it, which is imo more secure.

Diaa replying to Anonymous 1123

Send yourself an email with the pin. Not the best solution but works unconditionally.

Monica

That makes it easy!

samcarter replying to Monica

TopAnswers got a new logo, so looking different should not be the problem :)

Monica

For the open-source ads on SO, they require new art every time, though they don't say how different it has to be.

Monica

Thanks for the reminder; I meant to ping here too.  (Got lost in my browser tabs again. :-) )

samcarter

@Monica just mentioned on the codidact discord that the open source advertisement on Stackoverflow will probably soon open for this year (last year: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ads/display/394409 ) Are there any plans or ideas for a new TopAnswers ad?

Adám

@Jack Some discussion about TA happening in https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/240/the-nineteenth-byte

Monica

TL;DR: We've known for a while that we don't have anybody on the team who's wise in the ways of SEO, and were fortunate to be able to chat with someone who, while not an expert, knows more than we do, and get some pointers.

samcarter

Interesting chat about SEO going on at https://discord.com/channels/634104110131445811/815422383908192296/816404584800583730

Anonymous 1123 replying to marmot

Thank you very much.

marmot replying to Jack Douglas

I think this is because the translation of "I slept like a log" to German is "Ich habe wie ein Murmeltier geschlafen", the literal translation of which is "I slept like a marmot". :smile_cat:

Jack Douglas replying to Anonymous 1123

@Anonymous I've merged your accounts :)

Jack Douglas

I read this in a book the other day and lol'd"  
> "I assure you that I sleep everywhere, and always like a marmot."

Jack Douglas replying to marmot

that's good enough for me, thanks @marmot

marmot replying to Jack Douglas

I am convinced that both Anonymous 1123 users are the same person. If you want some irrefutable evidence, you could ask them to make some edits to the user profile https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/15080/minhthien-2016 on TeX.SE. This is something that only the "real" Anonymous 1123 can do.

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

Absolutely. SE has lots and lots of interesting stats, per user/site/room/tag/…

Anonymous 1123 replying to Jack Douglas

On https://tex.stackexchange.com/, I only login with face book.

Anonymous 1123 replying to Jack Douglas

many chat with marmot.  Before I ask a question, I usually do something, only the marmot understands.

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

I think we should add a stats page to each site, does that sound sensible?

Jack Douglas replying to Anonymous 1123

can you point me at some evidence that you are the same person? we have to be careful about this sort of thing of course…