Everybody in our office is still working at home due to COVID.
The other day, I had a Zoom call with several people in the organization. Not thinking about it, I was smoking a cigarette while my video was on. Somebody joked about it, and I apologized and put out the cigarette.
Today, I got a ...
@AIQ A couple comment flags which I handled and flags to close the question which I ignored. Even after you question has received multiple answers there were people who thought it should be closed
@EddieKal Removing stuff from the HNQ should be pretty rare. It's only intended for questions that reflect badly on the site, not for questions some people think should be closed. It would have been better to unilaterally close the question to remove it.
A question that is closed can become "hot" again if it is fixed and reopened. As you've probably discovered, once you blacklist a question from the HNQ it can never be listed again.
The ability to remove questions from the HNQ was added recently and confused everyone a little when it came out, because it was one of the few things that we could do that couldn't be undone.
@ColleenV Yeah ironically just two days ago I said I probably would never pull any question off of the HNQ
> The ability to remove questions from the HNQ was added recently and confused everyone a little when it came out, because it was one of the few things that we could do that couldn't be undone.
So are you saying mods could remove questions from the HNQ before this function was added recently? What do you mean? I am not sure I follow
@AIQ Nope. I have been kind of swamped. Also I can't get my hands on beef shank with bones which is called for in the recipe
I'm reading a text by a guy whose middle name is Nice.
There must be some psychological thing that'll make people like you more if you have such a name: I hate you, Nice isn't a very likely utterance.
This is the text (Why More English Instruction Won't Mean Better Grammar) if anyone's interested.
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It goes over a range of somewhat controversial points in grammar. I liked their analysis of the "subjunctive" as should-deletion, rather than an "exception-based" construction, which is how it's commonly taught.
But yeah, for the most part it criticizes the BS that both native and non-native speakers of English are (not) taught.
@EddieKal @ColleenV Hi! Can you two take a look at something for me please. A moderator commented on one of my answers that ">" should only be used when I quote something. If that is true, I may have been using ">" incorrectly. I use to quote things, but also for aesthetic purposes ...
Sometimes, while boxing, after some part of round passes, I find myself in a wide stance - with legs wider than shoulders.
You are asking the wrong question. Before asking "How can I fix the problem?", you need to ask "Why am I doing this all the time in boxing sparring, and not when I am do...
@DecapitatedSoul I saw some teenagers bumping their bikes ...
@AIQ It is really not that big of a deal. The function is called blockquote, so yeah it is for quotations by design, and using it for other purposes could cause confusion sometimes, but I think it is up to the user and/or site convention
@EddieKal The HNQ got a revamp, because it was, in some SE sites like the Workplace, the biggest source of annoyance and extra work for mods. Mods (and the site) couldn't do anything about HNQ before that than deal with it
@EddieKal You will find all those shanks, bones with bone marrows, ox tails, and tendons (which is a must for it to be authentic) in Chinese grocery stores
Everybody in our office is still working at home due to COVID.
The other day, I had a Zoom call with several people in the organization. Not thinking about it, I was smoking a cigarette while my video was on. Somebody joked about it, and I apologized and put out the cigarette.
Today, I got a ...
Has this kind of salutation a proper name?
It's called elbow bump.
References:
Elbow bump — Wikipedia
Elbow bump or Wuhan shake — BBC
Sometimes, while boxing, after some part of round passes, I find myself in a wide stance - with legs wider than shoulders.
You are asking the wrong question. Before asking "How can I fix the problem?", you need to ask "Why am I doing this all the time in boxing sparring, and not when I am do...
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