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The chat room for all users on Stack Overflow. Say hi, introduce yourself, and get to know your fellow community members. This room has no set topic - short coding questions are fine, but please introduce your problem; don't simply post code or an error without explaining your problem (code dumps are likely to be removed). Chat is a casual space where everyone should expect kindness, cooperation, and mutual respect. Please note this is an English Language chat. For additional information see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/434708

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Kevin Flynn

yst 16:23

Nah, your perceptions have changed with life. Experience changes your view. My kids think screaming goats are hilarious, and their uncle got them a screaming goat button for xmas. I want to smash that with a hammer :D

General Grievance

yst 15:36

Please use English only in this room.

Machavity

Tue 19:09

Sir, this is a Wendy's

General Grievance

Tue 19:02

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

Thom A

Dec 25, 2025 21:34

Please do not ask people to move conversations to other platforms.

aynber

Mon 14:51

If there isn't anyone in chat that knows (and there doesn't seem to be right now), you can post a question on the main Q&A site. Make sure you take the tour and read How to Ask

Yunnosch

Mon 05:20

Yes I can see the starts you apply.
No they are not your personal bookmarks, exactly because of that reason.
The idea is to follow the flow of the chat room you are in, each room might have its own way of using them. Here, they are mostly meant to highlight messages worth reading for everybody here.
No, they are not for simply "upvoting" them.

Journeyman Geek

Dec 26, 2025 03:18

If things get too bad, and they don't do global 1 rep chat, and help's really needed, I'll see about hitting up the local mods for RO here

Thom A

Dec 18, 2025 13:39

I do suggest avoiding "txt spk" though; not everyone understands it (especially those where it isn't their first language).

Journeyman Geek

Dec 26, 2025 03:13

Just flag and move on

starball

Dec 26, 2025 02:48

Q: Updates Coming to Chat: Replies design change, chat filter, new flag options, and more

The team is continuing to work on Chat, so I wanted to drop a quick note on MSE to give folks a sneak peek at some of the updates we have coming soon. Replies We’ve heard the feedback around our first attempt at improving the ability to follow a conversation within chat. We’ll soon be going live ...

starball

Dec 25, 2025 19:53

thanks for being so considerate to ask beforehand, and to respect the answers you get :)

starball

Dec 25, 2025 19:50

(cont.) could be a good discussion to raise on meta to get an idea of what the rest of the community thinks. or to try allowing it for a while and see how it goes, and if we don't like it, then write guidelines to keep things in bounds that we like

cyan

Dec 18, 2025 13:18

I might be able to help you. dontasktoask.com

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 24, 2025 11:46

@Yunnosch they seem to be talking about this which is an unexplained code dump

Yunnosch

Dec 24, 2025 10:56

By the way:
Happy hollandaise everybody!

Thom A

Dec 18, 2025 15:16

Don't solicit people to contact you off site.

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 14, 2025 17:57

Kevin Flynn

Dec 17, 2025 18:42

That seems to be the theme today - "Here's my problem" - "Here's some possible solutions" - "But [unrelated meandering] and I still have the problem" - "Did you try X?" - "Q doesn't work either"

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 17, 2025 15:41

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

aynber

Dec 17, 2025 15:28

httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_log_config.html has all of the directives for the Apache Log

aynber

Dec 17, 2025 15:27

Yeah, %T is the time taken to serve the request, in seconds. Or %{UNIT}T, where the unit can be ms, us, or s

Kevin Flynn

Dec 17, 2025 13:49

You realize you've been using that for at least 7 years?

T3 H40

Dec 17, 2025 07:23

It says "See the migration report for details." -did you do that?

Kevin Flynn

Dec 8, 2025 00:57

Pretty much anyone in here that posts something helpful is, well, interested in being helpful. As long as you're polite, nobody will give a damn how n00blet you are. Everyone starts somewhere :D

V2Blast

Dec 16, 2025 20:39

Q: Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive

TL;DR: The opinion experiment revealed that users aren't looking for subjective debates; rather, they most often seek detailed explanations. To capture this value, we propose a radical shift: stop closing questions and introduce a new curation model—The Workshop for collaboration and The Archive ...

discussion company-update featured questions opinion-based

Kevin Flynn

Dec 16, 2025 17:10

Can I do the calculation as I do the query? So something like SELECT start_Time, end_time, (end_time-start_time) AS total time FROM somewhere?

T3 H40

Dec 16, 2025 16:00

Congratulations on getting your association bonus 😁

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 16, 2025 13:34

Press Windows + . and then click on the kaomoji tab （￣︶￣）↗

Thom A

Dec 16, 2025 13:34

(⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠)

Thom A

Nov 28, 2025 11:30

No; we are not helping you do this. That is illegal. I suggest that what you actually need to do is reconsider your choices about doing such things; if you want to spy on your girlfriend I would suggest that perhaps you need to perhaps consider your relationship with her (or her with you). Relationships are built on trust.

roganjosh

Dec 15, 2025 14:57

Q: What is the Stack Overflow Lobby? Is it different from other rooms in Chat?

I've recently visited Chat, specifically the Stack Overflow Lobby, however, I was unfamiliar with the rules and expectations of the chat room. Does the Lobby follow the same rules as Stack Overflow and I must ask Programming/Software engineering questions, or is it more open? Can I ask about Stac...

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roganjosh

Dec 5, 2025 13:10

But most of your SQL learning could probably be done locally with SQLite3 without the concern of any costs, and then you could move on to dialect-specific things for BigQuery

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 4, 2025 04:54

Note to everyone: If you find someone randomly advertising things in this chat, feel free to flag their messages as spam. Other than the room guidelines explicitly mentioning it as being off-topic such messages might also be considered spam

Thom A

Dec 3, 2025 09:04

Reminder, and from the rules you have to agree to when you joined the room: "This is an English-only chat room of humans, so please use English and phrase like talking to humans."

Abdul Aziz Barkat

Dec 13, 2025 05:25

Might be due to this issue: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414673/…

Yunnosch

Jun 29, 2025 20:29

FAQ:
Q: Why does this chat look like from previous decade? A: Because it is.
Q: Can I use my favorite language for chatting? A: No, use English.
Q: How can I earn reputation to participate in other chat rooms than this special one? A: Directly here you can't. But see https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation
Q: What can I do if my question here seems to be ignored, or gets diluted by lots of chats on other topics? A: Try [ask] via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
Q: What is the starring feature for? A: Depends. I think it would be reasonable to only use it on messages which are…

David

Dec 12, 2025 15:27

Stack Overflow requires content to be in English. If English isn't a language you can communicate in, there are alternative sites available in the community that may be in a language you are more fluent in.

Thom A

Nov 20, 2025 09:17

Reminder, that this is a chat that contains human users; it is not StackOverflow.ai. Keep that in mind and communicate accordingly. We don't accept prompts like an LLM.

roganjosh

Dec 11, 2025 19:52

I manged to get a googlewhack out of searching for this. It looks like a bug in Visual Studio so you might want to downgrade your version of that

David

Dec 11, 2025 13:11

However well designed, no interface can stop a determined user from breaking it and getting upset :)

roganjosh

Dec 11, 2025 12:53

Rule #1 with Excel: someone will come and bust up the template you have built your parser around. But you can make broad rules for sure (look for set headers in expected rows etc.) and then just throw it back at them when they break the layout

Machavity

Nov 5, 2025 16:25

Yunnosch

Sep 26, 2025 21:33

Due to a high amount of activity, we'd like to ask for everyone to please make an honest attempt at full sentences and try to avoid flooding the chat with multiple messages at a rapid-fire pace. Use the edit feature to fix mistakes you may make. Perfect English is not required, but we'd like this place to benefit users who are earnestly looking for help or discuss all things programming, and part of that involves treating the space with respect.

aynber

Nov 10, 2025 14:28

Schrodinger's chat

roganjosh

Dec 6, 2025 16:20

Please use English; Stack Overflow requires content to be in English. If English isn't a language you can communicate in, there are alternative sites available in the community that may be in a language you are more fluent in.

aynber

Dec 5, 2025 17:14

Find a tutorial and go through it. That's the best way to learn

Yunnosch

Nov 6, 2025 06:00

If anybody is here after getting an inexplicable invitation, please take the time to just state that in a message. Or to put it differently, the sad issue of inexplicable invitations is probably the answer to your question "Why am I here?" and maybe "What is this?" (if you do not know yourself).

roganjosh

Dec 4, 2025 20:33

Everything you need to know is in the introductory material you're given. Whether that means you'll be successful on SO is another thing entirely

Thom A

Nov 18, 2025 12:46

Please don't just make demands of the users, we're volunteers; asking nicely goes a long way.