The Factory Floor

2:06 PM

I kinda fee like we didn't decide if this is on topic or not. meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2330/…

you know...cause of the whole 2 votes for 2 votes against thing...

I did vote, at the end :D

@bilbo_pingouin Thanks :)

which, restrospectively didn't help, as it would have been 2-1 otherwise

@bilbo_pingouin More voting is always better

Okay, I broke the deadlock (for now). 3-2, in favor.

Not that I like poll answers; I don't.

The topic challenge is still humans, right?

Q: Fortnightly topic challenge #12: Humans

2:24 PM

yes

Now begins our eleventh topic challenge! Topic: humans Dates: 22 July - 5 August Proposed by: While worlds can be populated with all sorts of intriguing and fantastical creatures (or robots, or other life forms), I find questions about how a fixed life form we're all most familiar with w...

Just found it; Thanks @bilbo_pingouin.

2:47 PM

A three-hour gap, and then four questions in seven minutes? Wow.

@HDE226868 Should I just have let people answer on their own?

@James Perhaps.

2 hours later…

4:39 PM

@bowlturner You just passed 20k. Congratulations.

bowlturner

Woot! 20K!

@HDE226868 I was coming to celebrate!

4:55 PM

I can't find a really good xkcd, but maybe this one's okay:

I was going to be a scientist, but that seems silly now. Magical worlds exist. I've learned a huge truth about our place in the universe. I'm supposed to care about college? I mean, FUCK.

The celebration bit, anyway.

1 hour later…

6:23 PM

Why are there so many questions today??

6:34 PM

21 since "yesterday"

8 of them from <200 rep, 10 from > 3k rep, and 3 from "chastly from the UK"

The 8 could be an aftermath of the HQN questions that we had with religion

but the 10 of you "Big Guys"...

Anyone wanna write up my team's 3 year roadmap/strategic plan for me?

Write questions on WB:SE ?

and answers...

I think they would be pretty busy :D

Also I am going to vote to reopen the human biology series because there seems to be no consensus either way and I think it would be useful. It may also bring in some love from Biology.SE users.

@bilbo_pingouin ...one or two of them might be good at that but the rest are pretty...hmm...un-creative.

@James I'm sure there are other SE sites that can be interesting... but creativity could be boosted by intensive reading of the already available questions ;)

@bilbo_pingouin lol maybe that would be good for them.

6:48 PM

in which field do you work?

IT...its...fine. Im a config engineer...though I prefer to think of it as a developer sheriff.

config engineer? I never stumble across that job so far...

It varies from company to company as far as specific responsibilities but essentially we do the formal builds of code once developers are finished, control that build and then promote it to various test environments and production...I also fill some change and release management roles...and occasionally act as a project manager and agile coach...

I see...

@James That sounds like a build/release engineer. I can be fun work. I did that for a few years.

7:00 PM

I learned something today :)

@Green Pretty much yeah. I am not terribly technical so I don't do the scripting work.

@James My favorite part is the scripting part. Watching a previously slow/inefficient/frustrating process turn into a frictionless/painless/perfect process is intensely satisfying.

@Green Agreed, I may not do the scripting but when I start running a scripted process I cheer...quietly...to myself.

@James One build button to rule them all and in the datacenter, deploy them.

7:48 PM

@Green lol

meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1768/… next topic seems to be going for weapon-design, but the following is undecided between 5 topics (all with 10 votes)...

@bilbo_pingouin Yeah I noticed the tie. Get out there an vote people.

@bilbo_pingouin done. Votes cast.

AartOfCode's answer for moons is oldest, so I would assume that would get chosen in the event of a tie.

@HDE226868 Good tie-breaker plan, though weapon design is now up to 12

7:56 PM

Fair enough... well there are still some weeks before we get to break the tie

I saw that; I was planning ahead.

@HDE226868 ...seems ambitious ;)

@James You're probably right.

8:29 PM

Wow...the "what should our topics for challenges be thread" may be the easiest way to get the necro badge ever...

@James yes, I got a necromancer badge with it....

@James I've gotten two already, and I'm close to more. It's not the sole source of 'em, but it's close.

11/15 necros have been from the topic challenge thread.

on main, there are only 12

A: Could someone write a query for finding Revival candidates?

Interesting Revival query, if anyone's interested. It helped me get one on main:

Here's the data-explorer query you asked for: data.stackexchange.com/english/s/1813/revival-candidate-question-finder The query allows filtering by question score and by tag(s). Note that the tag separating characters vary from SE site DB to SE site DB (¿bug?). It "currently" shows 231 el...

8:45 PM

but revival on WB is pretty hard as questions are usually answered, aren't they?

Yep. There aren't many candidates. It was tough.

Okay, I'm working on one answer.

I found one... but I need to write a good answer ^^"

9:13 PM

@bilbo_pingouin Which question were you looking at?

Q: How can I prevent a backlash in the mountain fortresses?

I kind of gave up for now...

My evil nature mage and his army of Felinus have conquered most of the human kingdoms. Upon breaching the forest pass and entering the human kingdoms his 1 million strong army of Felinus separate into units of 5,000 and begin to raid the farmland for supplies. The human populace has fled into th...

warfare medieval races diplomacy strategy

not easy to answer... and not very popular so far

That's tough.

yes... I can't see a good way without sacrifying a huge part of the population...

and I'm not sure I want to write that on the Web

it might not be well accepted ^^"

I chose this and ended up having to do a lot of reading. I don't know if people will be interested enough in the question (which I thought was excellent) to read it.

That is very technical...

9:19 PM

I'm not sure I understand the ins and outs of it.

biology isn't my forte though...

The thing is the the OP is of the climate series fame

Yep. That guy.