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7:08 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 When was this, in 2005?
Those materials are all cheap and laughable.
 
no, just announced
 
I won't even go into the archaic specs.
 
> NOTE: This phone will not work on Verizon, Sprint, nor US Cellular
lol
 
Haha.
The Berry is playing Apple.
 
$2000 phone and it doesn't work on what, half the US?
 
7:10 PM
Are those CDMA?
 
probably
I think so
 
Surely nobody will buy it.
A desperate cry for attention?
 
I dunno.
BB posted a profit recently.
 
@Cerberus Oh. OK. But you have to agree math ain't the first things you think of when you think metaphysics.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Congrats! Vive la Canada!
@Mitch Well, maybe not the first thing.
But I have ca. a BA in philosophy, and I live in a different country, so perhaps our intuitions are different.
Mathematics is not the first thing I think of with philosophy in general, but I'd say it is farther removed from e.g. ethics than from metaphysics.
 
7:50 PM
@Cerberus Yeah woo! go BB! obsolete tech! too little too late!
parties like it's 1999
 
parties like it's a party in 2003 partying like it's 1999
 
parties like it's on sale for $19.99
 
room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Absolute power corrupts absolutely (no tags)
 
@AndrewLeach isn't it rather late in your time-zone to be fiddling with room descriptions?
 
crl
design patterns should be called disguise patterns, because they make the code even more obscure
 
8:01 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 8pm?
 
@crl Nah, depends on the pattern
@AndrewLeach yeah!
 
That's early evening.
 
hm. feels later to me than it is, I guess.
 
All right, I see adjectives. You kids cut that shit out.
room topic changed to English Language & Usage: You kids cut that out and go to bed (no tags)
 
As a mature English adult, I think well-chosen adjectives, which can add a piquant flavour to otherwise dull language, are ideal.
 
8:10 PM
@AndrewLeach You should have said As an adult, I think adjectives, which can add flavour, are.
 
Well yes. I suppose adjectives are. But I was cocking a defiant snook.
 
The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the sciaenid genus Sciaena; Sciaena undecimradiatus and Centropomus undecimradiatus are obsolete synonyms for the species. One of the largest snooks, Centropomus undecimalis grows to a maximum overall length of 140 centimetres (4.6 ft) but common length is 50 centimetres (1.6 ft). Of typical centropomid form, it possesses drab coloration except for a distinctive black lateral line...
 
Woah. It didn't mean that! What was I doing then?
 
cooking a defiant snook, maybe?
 
8:37 PM
Fortunately, it's in a dictionary.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Right before the certain end of the world?
@Robusto The horror.
But now I see English...
 
I found a spellchecker for visual studio. Now I'm finding spelling errors.
 
9:19 PM
The average number of points @Robusto has earned for each question on this website is 2.
 
9:43 PM
For each not-deleted question.
Note that we dipped below the 50k-not-undead questions mark that night when the Roomba ran, but we picked it up again the next day.
 
Such a relief.
 
So, the deal with questions/POST_ID lookups for random values of POST_ID is that sometimes the post is a question, sometimes an answer (could also be tag wiki). If it is an answer, it rewrites the URL to the question ID which that answer is attached to and then suffixes the URL with the answer ID you did use so that it skips you right to that answer. Unless, that is, that the account of the answerer is gone, in which case you just go to the question. Apparently.
The "namespace" of all posts is the same and monotonically increasing. That is why the latest question has such a high id: because the count includes answers (and tag wikis) too.
So that count does include deleted stuff, but not just deleted questions.
And if you think that’s confusing, you should see my day-job. :)
 
10:05 PM
By the way, I am surprised that you didn't close that question as proof-reading.
I'm not sure what I would call it (maybe it's too short to be proof-reading).
But I think it is in the spirit of proof-reading: the question is not specific.
 
I am nothing if not capricious.
 
You caper and you caper.
 
Il capo de tutti capi capérrimo est.
 
Capo as in capitano?
I see your word capérrimo is only used in Spanish, and by only two people...
 
There can be only one.
> Io ancora per poco mi sa, il caperrimo mi ha detto "we don't want militants in our department".
That would be Italian. Mostly.
My fingers reach acutely whenever proparoxitonic stress is involved.
Be those parole sdrucciole, palabras esdrújulas, or palavras esdrúxulas. I realize the Italians aren’t consistent in this as the other two are guaranteed to be without a single exception, but best two out of three wins the match.
I figured you would be more apt to recognize proparoxitonic than those other three.
 
10:20 PM
Hi All
I have a quick question,
 
I have a quick answer.
That answer is maybe.
Now, what’s your question? :)
 
What is the meaning of this sentence: The staff has their work cut out for them.
 
Sigh.
It means that the staff are in for a lot of work.
 
thanks.
 
It is a bit strange to see has there instead of have, but these things sometimes happen.
 
10:24 PM
You can often look these up in a dictionary, even with phrases of more than one word: oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/…
 
It occurs to me that the words related to stress that involve (-)oxi- are some of the only oxygen type words where the original meaning is still apparent.
Since most people don’t think of it for sourstuff itself.
 
Most people don't know German chemistry.
 
Heh.
 
So oxygen is "acid-forming", I think. How is that related to stress?
Perhaps I still don't have enough stress in my life, or I'd know.
 
Sharp.
 
10:34 PM
Hmm.
 
Greek for sharp or acid.
 
Bit of a stretch.
 
Adjective: oxytonic (not comparable)
  1. (prosody) Having a stress on the last syllable.
== English == === Etymology 1 === From the Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oksús, “sharp”). === Prefix === oxy- Sharp, keen, acute, pungent, acid ==== Derived terms ==== (sharp): oxyrhynch ==== Related terms ==== (sharp): oyxmel, oxymoron === Etymology 2 === Reduced from oxygen which in turn is from the Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oksús, “sharp”). === Prefix === oxy- Concerning oxygen ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== (oxygen): oxychromatin, oxygen, oxytocic, oxytocin...
It’s the same root.
 
Yes. It's still a surprisingly long way from pungent/acid to slightly louder.
 
It’s where the sharp spot is.
 
11:01 PM
Where is Punctuation Barbie when we need her?
@Mazura There are no colons in the original, nor should there be. Without a semicolon, it cannot be them; with a semicolon, it cannot be whom. And yes, I actually do expect people to use colons and semicolons correctly: it’s part of literacy, part of standard written English. — tchrist 3 mins ago
 
crl
Sorry it's an ad, but just liking the song
 
11:21 PM
Music never needs an apology.
Well, almost never. :)
 
crl
11:34 PM
Ok, I unsorry then
Another story, another journey
Today, tomorrow on the flashlight tourney
A sand dune made of gold
Passion assault (It so)
Time to forgive and never forget
Together, whatever in a golden jet set
Landing on the shores of a lake
And what i give, is what i take

Over the green, my thoughts run so free
Straight as an arrow and strong as a tree
I've got roots, growing down the water
Hard steps are not alibi and it really doesn't matter
Across a river and through an island
Sky is the limit, but skyline is my horizon
 
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