@Bob Any feedback on the last post?

So much has changed with the way I participate over the last month...

First it was about spending more time in the review queues and 10k tools, now it's a new answering style

I originally said I was going to commit 30 minutes to an hour every day, now I'm spending several hours a day on Super User

:/

Winter Bash has driven me nuts

I never took Winter Bash seriously until I lost the last election – by less than 15 points

I might be overworking myself for the holidays

I know the feeling, @DragonLord. But think about how much you're contributing to the site :)

At least there isn't a mod-only hat available this year

@DragonLord Consider splitting into more sections with headings.

@OliverSalzburg I think you pushed a broken update to the chat reply helper :\

2.4.2 no longer works on FF

Neither the main purpose (keyboard navigation) nor the hover preview.

The userscript version works.

Hm. It might have been an FF update that broke it? shrug

You did push an update on the 19th. I'm not sure when I received it, but it's around the right timeframe.

@Bob Answer updated.

@DragonLord For some reason, the bold just feels overdone :|

I actually find it a bit hard to read.

I think, where you find the need to bold a whole paragraph - that's where you should instead create a section with a proper heading.

Though you might find better feedback over at Graphic Design or their chat :P

Especially the paragraph at the top.

That seems to be a summary.

Not a you must read this extremely important warning.

It's exacerbated by the SU font's bold being rather heavy.

@Bob This is how Thaddeus writes his answers—I'm just following his lead

@DragonLord Skimming a few top-scored answers, they have little to no bold in the rest of the answer.

Personally, I wouldn't bold a summary.

But doing that in combination with the amount of bold in the rest of your answer? Certainly feels overwhelming.

Most of my longer answers seem to be similar to this one, though I don't really have a specific style I try to follow. That's probably my personal preference in layout.

@DragonLord You might find these helpful: infogineering.net/under-10-rule-bold.htm fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/…

Of course, other people will have different opinions, and may read things differently from me.

@DragonLord Nice. I just received that HDD dock I mentioned earlier last night. Just used it right now to reformat a 3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD that I'm giving a friend.

The thing worked perfectly, out of the box, no fiddling required. (Connected via eSATA to my laptop)

But I find those circled areas to be a bit heavy.

I'm 100% satisfied with this product. :P

It's more the grouping - the isolated sentences in other areas aren't as much.

Ideally, a med-high weight could be used - but we don't have that much control over styling, unfortunately.

@BenRichards Glad to hear :) I like them too

I might leave a favorable review on Amazon. Sometimes I do this for things I buy :P

@CanadianLuke Thanks :) Have you used this particular model?

@Bob I've removed most of the bold text—important links will remain bolded for readability (see scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75878/… for an example)

This is what I got:

amazon.com/gp/product/B00A628QYE

@BenRichards Not that particular one, but the style. I use it for getting cheap backup 4TB drives for my server - Instead of paying for the enclosures too, I can use single 4TB SATA drives

Solidly built, HDD is secured well, and it just works which is nice considering you don't always get that kind of functionality. Sometimes things have finnicky things regarding when you plug it in vs turning it on, or connections are intermittent

@CanadianLuke Aha cool

I'm working from home since it's Christmas Eve. Laying on my bed, using my das keyboard and trackball on my lap, with my laptop hooked up to my monitor at the foot of my bed :P

Would be better if it was a larger screen though. Just 24" :P

@DragonLord I suppose another thing is, the bullet points don't really feel like separate points.

(Not really an issue as far as readability goes)

@DragonLord Also - the correct symbol for kilo is k. The symbol for kilobyte is kB. The symbol for kibibyte is KiB.

Went out to do a little bit of last minute Christmas shopping too. Check out this photo I snapped on the way. Saw it and had to pull over to take it.

Most people don't really bother with the correct capitalisation there, but you can if you want :P

Foggy.

@Bob I'm not going to confuse readers with this kB/KiB business. I've only edited it to make it more consistent in using units.

@DragonLord Oh, I didn't mean you should be using KiB. Just that you use K in a few areas where it should probably be k.

Though, K by itself seems to be fairly prevalent.

KB, however, really should be kB.

I can be a stickler for capitalization, so when I remember that, I'll type it properly :P

It's all a minor nitpick anyway.

I at least pay attention to b vs B. That actually changes the meaning quite a bit.

Most people won't care.

Some people might argue for KB for consistency with MB, though the SI prefix k is just different.

@BenRichards Nice...

I've seen claims that KB means the binary 1024x, while kB means the decimal 1000x, though I think that one is just plain weird (and I've never seen it in practice).

@BenRichards Yea, that one is more important - but even then people mix it up/don't care.

Better to spell it out when it's actually important.

Yeah, not seen that. Though there is a difference between kB used with drives and kB used with other things, right?

Yeah

Don't drives use decimal 1000 for kilo-?

@BenRichards There isn't a standard.

Not even a de facto one.

Pity.

I guess that's what I'm thinking of. Because you get both.

shrugs

There's a push to use the binary kibi/mebi/etc. prefixes, but they're not that common yet

So this was the first time I used the eSATA port on my laptop, which I've had for 3-4 years or so. Kinda nice to know it actually works :P

Also on Linux. I was worried that I'd have to go manually mount it and have to look up which device it was on (which always confuses me, even still)

Luckily I didn't have to worry about any of that. It just showed up in the device list in the file browser.

Linux has come a long way since I first started messing with it in 2004.

I'm kinda happy the other techs at work told me about 'Punk goes Pop' - Interesting songs

Aye. Which scares me.

Hi, I did something for you. You have no idea what precisely and no log for you to find out. I hope I did the right thing (if not you are screwed). Kbyethanks.

One more thing after switching to an SSD: Norton Security full system scan ran about 5-6x as fast

It's now primarily compute-bound, using all four CPU cores

@Bob Argh, fuck

I'll have to look into that soon. Can't right now :P

I finally have a windows 8[.1] iso.

Now I can try to switch the uber slow HDD for an SSD

I'm heading home - Merry Christmas to those who celebrate

@DragonLord I still like it, based only on the last edit, it still is very readable and major points are "in ya face" (bold) but I will mention that this time, this particualr set of text, it looks more like Bullet points are paragraphs not points. Like it is wrong to bullet point if it is just a paragraph, but not if it is points. (i am not looking at the edit histroy just what i see now).