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Anonymous
17:00
Happy turn of the calendar!
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
I was gonna say bye.
Anonymous
(Note: I never rotate calendars.)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's 6/6 now!
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
I have a calendar extension for chrome.
So you can't beat me at my own game.
Anonymous
@M.A.Ramezani Oh! Good
Anonymous
17:01
We'll put you in charge of calendar-related stuff.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Ding dong!
My time is GMT + 3:30.
Anonymous
The witch is dead?
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@Dam's time is GMT + 6:00 I reckon.
@snailboat Yep. In the game.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's UTC+7, actually.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
o.o
But you were 2 hours and half ahead of me.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
17:03
You can think of UTC and GMT as about the same thing, I think.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
That would make UTC+6.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Eh?
Do you use DST?
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
It's 9:30 here.
Hmm...Yeah, DST!
Anonymous
I find it too laborious to keep track of time zones around the world
Anonymous
Specifically because of Daylight Saving Time.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
17:05
I wonder if @Iplod gets DST.
Would that make him GMT +1:00?
Anonymous
People are constantly rejiggering DST all over the world, so it starts or ends at different times. Some people want to abolish DST, some people want double-DST
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Good thing we can type "What time is it in ..." on Google.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Yeah! I rely on my computer and my phone to keep track for me! :-)
Anonymous
But you can just type "time thailand" or "time san jose", no need to type a whole question
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@DamkerngT. I'm expecting to see humans (and human-like robots) slaves of Google in 30 years.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
17:06
Oh! Thanks for the tip!
@M.A.Ramezani It could be within just 10.
:P
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Life is so dependent on Google now!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
5 years from now, in a classroom somewhere... "Google, what should I teach today?" said the teacher.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
SOUND THE ALARMS: NEW USE OF "OP" FOUND.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Red alert!
Anonymous
What's the new use?
Anonymous
17:09
I can think of two: Original Poster and OverPowered
Anonymous
Oh! OPening theme is a third
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
In a recent report one of our researchers has found a historical ruin wherein the term "OP" was used to mean "the rep of OP".
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Q: Is it rude to answer a question and create a comment to point to the answer (OP > 1k rep)?

Roman VottnerFirst and foremost, I'm not a big fan of calling someone out but I'm a bit unsure on this topic. In this question a user answered a question and short after that created a comment under the question pointing to his answer and also pointing a user to the what to do when an answer fits the question...

discussion
Anonymous
@M.A.Ramezani "one of our researchers has"
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
That's it folks, for now. Thanks for listening.
@snailboat Give me a break!
Anonymous
@M.A.Ramezani Ah, I think OP has its usual meaning there. The interesting thing is the construction it appears in
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
17:11
The discovery eroded my English resources.
Anonymous
> The OP is over a hundred pounds.
Anonymous
You could say this means "the OP" now means "the OP's weight"
Anonymous
But!
Anonymous
> The OP weighs over a hundred pounds.
Anonymous
The interesting thing might be is
Anonymous
17:12
> The OP is over 1000 rep.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
NEWSFLASH: Major Discovery in Meta.SE 'fake'
Anonymous
> The OP has over 1000 rep.
Anonymous
Is is a very curious thing indeed.
Anonymous
Though if we look more closely, we might find it's not is itself that's interesting...
Anonymous
> We're looking for users over 1000 rep.
Anonymous
17:14
> We're looking for users which are over 1000 rep.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Oh!
Right.
So the reactivity of 11 groups series lowers down the group.
I wonder why.
Anonymous
I stopped my explanation before I got to why it might not be is, by the way.
Anonymous
Can continue another time if anyone's interested :-)
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@Dam is interested...Sorry, I'm a little busy.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, I read is as ellipsis.
(OP > 1k) ~ (OP with more than 1k rep points)
Anonymous
17:20
Like words were left out and then is was put in their place?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Is is okay too, yes.
Anonymous
What are we talking about?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I thought it was about (OP > 1k rep)!
Anonymous
Ah!
Anonymous
I read that as "OP is over 1k rep" :-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
17:22
I welcome any of them! :-)
I think I read it a bit like when I read math formulas.
Anonymous
Yeah, I think the default for me is to have an is when I read >
Anonymous
When I was little, we were taught to read > as is greater than
Anonymous
x > 3　　←　　x is greater than 3
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Chloauric acid.
COOL!
@DamkerngT. You guys read math formulas?
I don't.
Too much work.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Eh? We all have to, I think.
Anonymous
17:24
Sure. I don't always communicate in writing.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It would be weird, if we write the formulas on the blackboard and keep saying This. Like this. With this, and this. So we get this.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@DamkerngT. Beats me...I'm it!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Hah! Even when you explain something to your friends?
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Yep.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Now, that's really interesting!
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
17:28
Sometimes, if I have to read, which is when I explain sth to the teacher or what, I abbreviate certain stuff where we both know what I'm talking about. Like reading x^2. I read it Ecks two.
Anonymous
@M.A.Ramezani That's usually x squared, though it could be x to the second power or informally x to the two
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Because ^ is a mouthful? (I'm not sure if you use Persian or English when talking with your teacher.)
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@snailboat I know.
But x two is easier.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think there's a reason that we don't write x2 but write 2x.
We also have x_2.
But reading math formulas aloud is always either ambiguous or cumbersome.
Anonymous
18:08
@M.A.Ramezani Sure, it just might not be understood
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
@snailboat yEP.
But still, not surprisingly, everyone understands what I'm saying.
They won't if it's in a context of physics.
Anonymous
Sure, if they already know that there's an x squared
Anonymous
And that you're likely to be talking about it.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Well, they'll think of x two as either x^2 and x_2.
Anonymous
Who will?
Anonymous
18:15
I mean, I've never heard of this x two before.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
The audience.
Oh wait.
I always do these sayings in Persian.
Not in English.
Anonymous
Oh, so you don't actually say x two?
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Of course, they'll sound off to ear in English.
@snailboat I say ecks dou. Dou is the Persian 2.
Anonymous
Ah, that's a different word from two!
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Yep.
I just translated or translatirated or something like that.
Anonymous
18:18
Translated.
Anonymous
Transliteration is when you go from one writing system to another.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Exact translation or word-to-word translation...There should be something like that.
Anonymous
Literal translation.
M.A.Ramezani
M.A.Ramezani
Aha!
I forgot.
Nobody has explicitly mentioned that "great oaks" is plural, but "was fallen" is singular. Watch your subject/verb agreement. — phoog 4 hours ago
...or I'll get you!
I wonder why watch is used more in threatening.
Then comes be careful.
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