Greetings everyone!

Hi

What's up?

Not much, you?

Kinda of bored

GSoC has already comes to it's end

I'm bit nervous right now as i have more work left to do

What's that?

Google Summer of Code

I got a large toblarone, but it's sad that It's in my home refrigerator :p

Have you seen the Computer Science Education stack exchange?

Ohh, I guess that's something new for the Stack Exchange

Yup

I used to go through the communities and try to see the high rep profile

How could I miss CS community :D

I just visited it

It's more casual and seems like student like us can ask personalized questions

not like SO

Yup

They have even asked questions about colleges

hoohoooo, I'm a user there :D

:D

It's already 1:00 pm

but I don't feel hungry though

I'm struggling to pick a word.

There are several "volumes" of culture fluid on which the analysis is performed, say 10, 20, 50, 100, 265 and 600 liters.

What word to use?

Clearly not batch.

But I need to somehow make clear that it's not just randomly collected 265 liters of culture fluid, but the 265-liter something from the range of different somethings.

@V.V. You're welcome. :)

@CowperKettle If it's not in a container, consider just saying the 265L culture fluid.

Soo.... the top answer here...

It seems to be describing "are" and not "is" and the author admits in the comments that there's a typo, but the original answer stands. Commenters are saying, however, that it's "is" and not "are." Heavy clarification needed here.

@MelanieShebel hey! Welcome to our chat!

Oh hi @M.A.R.!

@MelanieShebel it says the error is "is"

So the correct form is "are"?

Yep

Wow, that's a head scratcher, haha!

@MelanieShebel X and Y are the best. -> The best are X and Y.

Agreed.

The comment clarifies it and says Lambie should mention the inversion

It's not obvious

When he said "is", I thought he was saying that "is" is the correct way of saying it.

But can't you mentally unify developing the ability to work with others and developing leadership skills into a single concept and consider it singular? I even think there's a corresponding difference between the plural and singular; i.e., the singular denotes the sum, whereas the plural can denote the sum or each of the parts separately. I may be completely mistaken, but I'm pretty sure I'd follow the phrase in italics with a verb in the singular.

Then again, I often (always) follow or'd expressions with a plural, even in my first language, so I might not be the best person to argue this.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Correct usage for friendship day greeting by Fredrick on ell.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Is it okay to use Capital letters for H F D in "Happy Friendship Day" by Fredrick on ell.SE

@snailplane Hrm sounded promising... haha. Okay, thanks.

Is get your panties in a knot/bunch sexist?

@userr2684291 Considering that only female underwear is referred to as "panties"... yes. If you say this to a male, they will think you're calling them a little girl, which is the epitome of an insult.

@Catija Is telling a girl that (Don't get your panties in a bunch.) sexist?

Why does it matter if it's sexist or not? It's not very nice.

It's something that implies their outrage is unwarranted and over the top...

@Catija Yeah, I want to imply that.

And usually it's used to try to belittle them. I strongly recommend avoiding its use.

If you want to imply that, then you shouldn't care if it's sexist or not.