@Cerberus For me, it is more like 40% of the speed, and this if the words are recognized

but there are so many words which are not in the dictionary and that is annoying

And I haven't found a language for which speech-to-text has an acceptable recognition rate. This is probably due to my atrocious pronunciation, but whatever the reason, I find it unusable.

Happy Thursday everyone....

for Android pirating requires more effort than the price of the apps are worth in my opinion. Ideally that'd be how everything works: reasonably priced software and media coupled with pirating being annoying

Pirating is definitely annoying, but not more so than importing stuff from overseas because they wont' friggan release it here

Avast ye scurvy dogs!

yar!

fires chainshot at the sails of the rich galleon _Yami-Chun's Heart_

swoons

You know, I still go into a coughing fit if I start laughing....

That sucks. My husband has been doing that this week too

He says he's going to go into work today, or at least try to, so hopefully he's doing better

I have been working all week, but you know I mostly work from home anyway. Today should be an in-office day but I am here with the furry beasts.

He only works part-time, he's worried he won't be able to buy toys if he doesn't go in all week. that and he feels like he's letting the lab down

His income is entirely extra-budgetal income

:-)

Guys like to feel they can buy their own toys.

Yeah. He's much happier when he can bring in some pocket change than when he can't work at all

He's hoping to increase his hours next semester when his courseload is particularly light

He is a gradual student?

yup

I believe he'll be done after this summer's dissertation/thesis/whatever it's called in his field

In the us, its always a dissertation, if he is a phd candidate.,... but often called a thesis informally. what is his field of insanity, and why did he want a phd in it?

He's a Master's student, the rules seem looser there. Biomedical engineering

Much more variation. Probably a thesis.

He keeps calling it a "paper". But he hasn't started yet, I don't think he's realized how much work they expect you to put into it.

:-)

Masters papers are much less insane than phd ones. He should be okay.

He's done two papers already, one being published and another that's almost ready for publication

He has a cv already as a master's candidate? Is that normal in his field?

This is true, but mine drove me bonkers. Of course, I finished ahead of schedule because I wanted to go home, so maybe I overdid it. Or maybe it had something to do with my not knowing any domain knowledge going in and having to learn advanced mathmatics

He's done these papers during the course of his program, as part of a scholarship-related opportunity to do some practical work. Turns out he discovered some interesting properties of a new polymer

(Something about the ambient humidity affecting the way it wrinkles or something)

@Yamikuronue Math???! But you are a girl! :-) :-)

:D I'm a very ungirly girl ;)

@Yamikuronue We have seen pictures.... erm...

(frilly skirts aside)

I'm wearing men's clothes at the moment, I'm allowed to deny all connections to photos of frilly skirts ;)

My math major failed my first semester... it was 1985 it was.... I was not ready for college level Calc III or Linear Algebra :-)

Ick. I hated all things calc. The thing that got me in my thesis was that I'd never had formal training in statistics, which made it harder to understand lexical clustering

I should have had it in high school, but I flunked one semester of Pre-calc and had to repeat it my senior year, so I didn't get to take Statistics (or Calculus, which was the other option, but there was no way I wanted Calc in high school)

then I was an arts major in undergrad

I had calc twice in high school.... but I was insane.

I had regular senior level calc in 11th grade, then AP in 12th. I wasn't good enough for BC and dropped down to the AB class with the slow kids, and that was much easier :-)

The semester that ruined my academic transcript also disqualified me for continuing to take Honors English. I had to take regular English and hated every minute of it. Then they let me take Honors again the next year because I was clearly too bright for the lower class

Schools are crazy.

Nobody seems to care I also did poorly in Spanish :)

I had gotten kicked out of the "advanced math" after 8th grade for refusing to do homework.

But in NY, if yo ucan pass the state regent's exam, you get credit for a class whether you take it or not.

In elementary school I'd get in trouble for reading books when I finished both my classwork and my homework and had nothing to do

oh man! That sounds awesome. I had to take classes at the community college to make up some of the missing spots on my transcript

My 10th grade geometry teacher got tired of me, and suggested I just take the regents at the January session. Then I read the trig book for four hours the day before the august test, and got out of trig (with a 65, which is a D but is a pass!) That is how i cought back up.

@Yamikuronue Yeah well.

@SAJ14SAJ On that oven duplicate, it was already closed (as non-constructive) so I think even if the dup had been newer (like if I'd picked the new "without a thermometer" one) it'd have been an improvement.

I think generally, duplicate is the best close reason; it's the only one that stamps a link at the top to a place where there's an answer.

@Jefromi I misread the dates, so I closed the meta q. Sorry.

No worries, just saying I'd still have done it if the dates were reversed.

Ah :-)

Though in that case there wouldn't have been comments on the question pointing at the dup, so maybe not in practice, but you know what I mean.

Yeahm, I am going crazy, because I know there is an existing older question that talks about calibrating ovens with sugar and browning pieces of paper, and I cannot find it!

uh oh

Well, I manually kludged a second dup-ish notice on the top pointing to the new one, because no one reads comments ever

And if you find that one, I'm happy to merge if it's appropriate.

If I run across it I will flag it for you with Other Attention.

We are big enough sometimes you KNOW something lurks out there, but you just cannot find it. Perhaps if we had a google search expert look at our domain specific searching... :-) :-) :-)

@SAJ14SAJ I dunno, I don't see it either - is it possible you were thinking of the article linked to in the answer to the closed question?

I don't know.... perhaps my brain is lost in questions that never were.

The bit about browning paper does sound vaguely familiar, though.

I failed to find it with the search tool, if it is in there.

Ah well, its not worth worrying about when my ramen is done :-)

I don't suppose anyone knows a good resource for learning about svn that assumes something approximate to a real-world situation?

The docs I'm looking at are all "All commits go to the trunk. Then you make a branch for your project, do some work, then re-integrate. Easy!" And I'm like "Okay, but we have the trunk as prod, then we have staging, demo, and dev, and we have multiple projects going, and sometimes the ones started later go before ones started earlier..."

1. Check out. 2. Move into a structure or code management tool you understand. 3. do work.

haha

We have the opportunity to pilot new workflow ideas, so I'm looking for solutions to our systemic problems

I am not code management expert, given that I work in very small teams of just me usually, but it sounds like the decision to make prod the root is at the root of all their problems.

I have no idea why that was decided or what good it does or what bad it might do

in practical terms everyone's got server instances that have checkouts of the Dev branch and there's a team who is responsible for merging from dev to demo, from demo to staging, and then from staging to prod, on a given schedule depending on the project. So developers mostly ignore the structure altogether

Pet kitty. Have chocolate. Feel better.

@Yamikuronue 1. gah why are you using svn

Because we used to use VSS and are slowly becoming modern apparently

@rumtscho Right, right, it's complicated and it depends on many factors.

and of course, as we speak, bad merging has made staging full of errors

Oh no!

I left my mix of flour and water out on the counter for, ummm, the last several weeks. Is it still good?

(seems like the type of question people ask around here)

... would it still be good if I went ahead and mixed in raw chicken, too?

(Hmmm. Healthcare.gov says my identity is verified. Unfortunately, it appears they've forgotten which state I live in. And when I try to tell them again, I get—after a very long please wait—a little message there saying important! your changes were not saved.)

I wonder if that state (Important…) is located next to Missouri, no one knows where that one is. Odd flag they have.

@derobert No, its not good any more. Evil spirits have infiltrated it, as evidenced by the hissing and spitting, and brimstone smell. You are now haunted. Move out now, prefereably to another state.

Adding raw chicken would just allow the evil spirits to feed and extend their campaign of evil more rapidly!

@SAJ14SAJ Well, the good news is Obamacare has already moved me!

Haha.

Great!

I'm so proud of you.

@SAJ14SAJ There isn't any hissing and spitting, just bubbling. And plenty of vinegar smell. Haven't noticed brimstone yet... though I confess I don't know what brimstone smells like.

The bubbling IS the hissing and spitting. They are very tiny demons. And I am quite sure brimstone smells like vinegar :-)

Ah! Then it is haunted!

Brimstone...maybe like sulphur?

I should call one of those ghost shows on TV. I bet they'll pay money for it!

@Cerberus Your credibility on things hell-related is exhausted, kitty-player-with-hands-boy!

@derobert Quite so.

Oh noes!

How often are you feeding your demons?

Not so flamboyant, apparently.

Whenever a naughty soul descends...

Still waiting for these guys to show up...

Not you, Cerby. @derobert....

@SAJ14SAJ Twice daily, now.

Supposedly, they'll eventually pop out and start talking to you...

No off smells or strange colors?

At least, they do to this dude:

@SAJ14SAJ Smell is pretty much just vinegar. No off colors.

I bet it will come back together in a week or two from what I read the other day.

I watched that episode on Prime recently, I think.

@SAJ14SAJ Its still rising some, probably from bacteria, I'd guess. But at least its probably acidic enough it won't go off...

Don't have a pH meter to stick in it.

Have you tried a test loaf with it since the accelerated feedings began?

@SAJ14SAJ No, it's only been a few days. Might try this weekend

the bugs, they never end...

@Yamikuronue Sounds like the start of a horror film

The idea of bread starters is alluring.

Yet impractical-sounding.

@Cerberus Why impractical? It just takes some flour & water

And acidic fruit juice to start it quicker, at first.

That's not all it takes.

It also takes worrying and talking about it in chat.

@Cerberus It seems you have no trouble talking in chat...

And it doesn't require much worrying.

Touché.

So, when are you starting your sourdough starter?

ffffffff.

This code that the users are saying is behaving badly was last pushed to the demo server for testing on 16 September. That's almost a month ago. And they've only now put real data into it and found an issue?!

@Yamikuronue You accidentally ate one of the bugs?

@Yamikuronue Hah. I have code I wrote two years ago which still hasn't been pushed to production. Because no one has figured out when to do it...

Of course, now everyone—myself included—has forgot what changed. Will be fun when we finally push it.

If code is never pushed to prod, did you actually write it?

@SAJ14SAJ this sentence just invalidated 3/4 of my programming experience

@rumtscho :-)

OMFG.

The users claimed they've been loading a second copy of their production articles into the new CMS alongside the old, using test accounts on the new one to make sure everything is to their liking, for weeks now, and have decided to make the switch starting Monday.

Today they discover 3 "new" problems

There have been no less than 6 standup meetings in which they said "Yeah, everything looks great :)"

In a just world, that would mean they have to live with the bugs they signed off on

I think it's Relaxing Music Time

@Yamikuronue If words are said in a "stand up meeting," do they make a sound?

Yes. But perhaps they were invalidated because I was seated

maybe that makes it opposite day

I just like making fun of "stand up meetings." I think they require infinite redicule. As if people have to be uncomfortable to be efficient.

In this case they're standups because we're all crowding in the space next to my desk instead of getting a room with chairs in it

@Yamikuronue I thought you were consigned to Coventry, also known as The Consultant's Bench, or Non-Employee Row, or the Group W Bench.

The last one was just for me.

I am. The bench is kind of U-shaped, well, more like a ] on its side really. If you rotate a ] 90-degrees widdershins, I'm in the long part, and two others are in the elbow joints. Then there's open space behind me, and then some cubicles belonging to more important people. in that open space between the two, #_], is where we hold our meeting

_ being a wall, # being a couple cubes

There's printers just outside this little nook area, so people are always walking past and making me jump, but it's better than the bench that's set up in a hallway area, so I'm not in the worst spot :)

@derobert I eh support sourdough starters in principle.

mm...acapella covers of old love songs fix everything

mayube if I just keep playing music the code will work

@SAJ14SAJ I suggest requiring that a stand-up comedian attend any stand up meetings.

Should make them much more enjoyable.

Especially if drinks are served, as is the custom.

@derobert Or at least not a complete waste, if you get a laugh :-)

@Yamikuronue Widdershins is a nice word btw.

I so rarely see it that I had to look it up.

:) I'm quite fond of it. It neatly sidesteps the anti- vs counter-clockwise internationalization issue

plus I rather like when each of a pair of opposites is its own word, as opposed to one being derived from the other

Haha.

But "widder" means "counter-"...

Yes, but "shins" does not mean "clockwise"

It means "the way the sun moves"?

My understanding was that widdershins breaks down into "The nonsensical direction"

Huh?

Maybe I heard a false etymology?

I just read that it is "against the direction in which the sun moves"?

Wikipedia says " It is cognate with the German language widersinnig, i.e., "against" + "sense"."

But perhaps you are right.

Ohh I see!

@Cerberus I learned it from ... darn what were the name of those books.... A Wrinkle In Time I think :-)

My source suggested, but not quite said, that it was referring to the sun, not sense. So I stand corrected.

@SAJ14SAJ Hmm I don't think I know that book.

@Cerberus You were not born in the US between the 60s and 90s, then I would guess.

Not sure what its range of popularity was.

But then it means "against [the direction that makes] sense".

@SAJ14SAJ Alas!

It won awards, so I'd say fairly popular

In or on the horrid wastes?

...it was made into an Opera?!

I see.

But why would you want to make a book into a browser?

It introduced millions to the concept of a tesseract

...even if many of us weren't quite sure what the heck it was on about

it was a nifty word to research later :)

@Cerberus My word, you are but a child!

@Yamikuronue Hmm I knew it was some kind of geometrical figure, but I didn't know it was 4D, although it makes sense.

I'm going home :)

Bai. <insert desired smiley>

@Cerberus I don't think you get credit for choose your own smiley. I think you have to commit!

But I do not wish to.

I realize you have existential issues since the great unveiling of your humanity.

At least I have no feline issues.

My kitties are great pets.

Hey guys

@Jolenealaska Bon soir, obi wan obsessive :-)

Yeah well, we all have our quirks. I just rated my new food processor on Amazon. I gave it 5 stars pending durability problems that haven't shown themselves yet.

@Jolenealaska You have had it one day?

2 days, I've used it several times and run it through the dishwasher. It's a pleasure compared to my old one

I didn't know you were so easily seduced by a passing new appliance.

I said in the review that I would update if durability issues reared their ugly head.

It is SOOOOO much more user friendly than my old one. If I had known, I would have killed my old one a lot sooner.

I wrote a scathing review of my old one, then suddenly changed into some language I've never seen. It was weird.

When I first got my stand mixer (rip), I sent my dad pictures. He doesn't have a recent picture of me, but he has pictures of an appliance!

You may have to meditate on this.

I sent him a picture of my most recent cheesecake too.

It was beautiful

Does Martin ever come in here? I've got a question for him.

Infrequently. he lives in germany, so he is well offset from your time zone.

Like that matters

You might decide to sleep when it is dark out. Who knows?

Soon it's going to be dark all the time. Ugh. My sleep patterns get even weirder during the winter. I've been known to think it's AM instead of PM (or vice versa) for an entire calendar day.

cya later!

Bye!

@rumtscho Metal bands per 100,000 inhabitants:

ikeaordeath.com

Can you tell the names of Ikea furniture and metal bands apart? Take the test! I scored 13 out of 20.