@WesleyDavid They really dislike that I'm gauche enough to point out reality. And then laugh. I'll admit the laughing probably is a bit much. They don't pay me to tell them everything's going to be flowers and unicorns though. They pay me to keep shit running and tell them what it will take to get it working when it stops running.
@AdrianK Yeah, sounds like you're ready to move away from the NPT sector. I've done non profits almost my entire IT career. Non profit IT can get taxing. Now as my own boss I do more with for-profits, but still contract a lot to NPTs. I'm now interviewing for positions at for-profits only. =)
@AdrianK Yeah, that's tough in the NW. I grew up just about two miles south of the official USGS sign that marked the 45th parallel line. Seattle is, what, 48th? Winter be awfully dark there.
@AdrianK Strangely, the only cities I would consider moving to (In America, anyway) above the 35th parallel would be SanFran and Seattle. Maybe Vancouver BC, but only if a woman was involved. =)
@WesleyDavid Yep. The light rail (not monorail) is a little better, but it's just one line from downtown to airport so far. Going to be 20 years before it's really useful in its own right.
But really, IMO, SanFran and Portland are the only cities west of Chicago that has excellent public light rail.
That I'm aware of... Phoenix is kind of a joke. One twenty mile line that goes from N Phoenix to downtown and then to the airport. Veyr limited usefulness.
@Ward My favorite office ever was in a toney little office building that IBM bought cheap (old McCaw HQ) and rented out the bottom floor to a plastic surgeon. We had 2nd floor windows facing out to the parking lot.
@BartSilverstrim Usually that, yes, it would discourage downvoting and be a barrier to the process. The anonymity is sometimes helpful in that occasionally you don't want to go toe to toe with the poster.
I and my friend rate together. I asked Is it possible to make a new account and use it to vote on the old account? and you said our rating would be removed, but now just my fiend's reputation has been removed. What is happening?
a little. I also think most people ignore the consequence of having your question closed -- If your first question on SF is a medium-difficulty DB thing and it winds up closed I think you're less likely to stick around in the StackExchange universe. If we migrate it to DBA and you get a great answer not only will you be happy, you may stick around in both communities and be a productive member of society :)
I suppose it's possible that the Antivirus is causing the underlying problem, but your VPN is failing because you don't have a network connection.
If the client IP starts with 169.254, the network device that you are trying to use to initiate VPN connection isn't getting a real network IP but on...
That's exactly the kind of @#% that keeps me out of Meta. It attracts the people that bitch and snipe, then complain about people who get snipey and snarky in the other exchanges.
There is a proposal on Area 51 that definitely does NOT fit with the family-friendly nature of StackExchange, given the current level of integration (site footer, multicollider, „all sites” list, merged accounts). I have flagged it for moderator attention several times, but it was ignored.
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@BartDeVos Anyone who thought that StackExchange had "Family Friendly" as one of its aims has never been on ServerFault. Or StackExchange. Or SuperUser.
An over-under or over/under (O/U) bet is a wager in which a sportsbook will predict a number for a statistic in a given game (usually the combined score of the two teams), and bettors wager that the actual number in the game will be either higher or lower than that number. For example, in Super Bowl XXXIX, most Las Vegas casinos set the over-under for the score of the game at 46.0. A bettor could wager that the combined score of the two teams would be either more than or less than that number. Since the combined score of that game was 45, anyone who had bet on "under" won.
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@Iain Only because the time that I'm available to search for flaggable questions is when he's up in the morning. He hates me for having 42 available flags each day. =)
@Iain They could be yes, but I figured it would be more efficient to mod hammer them rather than flooding the VTC room with a few dozen per day. Certainly if I was a mod I'd just do it myself.
Please give answers for HIV and/or other STD. I do understand that it depends on the risk groups (e.g. unprotected sex, males vs females, prostitution, homosexual sex, etc) so please provide as detailed information as possible. A lot of information on the web, literature, from GPs and sexual heal...
@Iain But yeah, I think it's because the quality of the posts are so far pretty appalling and it's fairly obvious that they need to be closed. I think the burden to the community of floating a few dozen VTCs per day would be worse than just pestering the mod crew. shrug I never really considered it. I should ask them if I'm abusing the flagging system.
OK, so, answer to both questions is no: 1) there won't be a way to selectively disable oneboxing of SE questions by site, 2) there is no way to hide sexuality from your network profile.
So this question was first posted in the discussions for the site, but now that the site is actually launched in private beta, I'm curious as to where this issue landed in the development. Or where it will go after private beta. How is privacy handled and separation between this site and other SE...
Technologies like PXE frustrate me to no end. People had a really, really good idea. Wrote up RFC drafts (which need a bit of work, but are great otherwise). Thought it through carefully.... And then nobody actually did much with those good ideas, they just languished and died.
And that's a serious curiosity. Is it that they don't want to implement it for just that site, is it that they don't want users to hide sites besides sex.se
@voretaq7 I'm going to have a seperate account for 2, although I do wonder if it's going to be possible to "mark as non-merge" so my accounts don't get merged into each other. I use SF for/in work so I would quite like to keep my personal (ha!) and work life serperate.
I suppose it feels more like it's a community aristocracy, and the majority voice being quite naturally StackExchange leads decisions to be made that are only agreed upon by a handful on meta.SO.
(case in point, the oneboxed question. "Hmm, this guy looks like a good hire... oh what's this.... he's asking about STD testing. Skeevy! Next candidate!")
@PeterGrace As for that, really, I think my ire blurred my vision. I'm not sure if they do or do not change important things on a whim. Mostly I'm irritated at the appalling lack of consistent documentation for what is changed and rolled out. For example, why did I get an avalanche of "Announcer" badges suddenly yesterday? No announcement was made that I know of for that feature change, and if one was... where is the central place for those announcements? M.SO? A blog? Jeff Atwood? Smoke signals?
@AdrianK it's been my experience as a consultant as well as the point of contact of many international IT departments that a strong majority of sysadmins in IT are clueless.
@PeterGrace Aye. cuz really, if your server has an IP of 169.254.x.x, your IP packets be goin nowhere regardless of what you changed last, and you better figure out WHY you ain't got no IP address.
@PeterGrace Thanks for that! I knew there was a M.SO post like that around here somewhere. It's like a drop of icewater in hell, but better than having Satan piss lava into your mouth.
@wesleydavid no worries -- whenever people raise red flags about things I generally try to hunt down people here at SE who can help answer the question.
Coming off of this question regarding privacy, it may be helpful to add a network-wide flag on accounts to prevent them from showing up in you StackExchange profile.
This feature would allow Sexuality participants to continue to use their main network account, but would also grant them limited a...
@voretaq7 honestly, if this is a feature you want, and I pray @Rebecca doesn't smack me down, but if this is important I think what you've got is fantastic, it just needs to get upvoted sky-high.
I and my friend rate together. I asked Is it possible to make a new account and use it to vote on the old account? and you said our rating would be removed, but now just my fiend's reputation has been removed. What is happening?
