Puzzles Etc.

If you go into a puzzle, and - on the right side oft he page - click on the word to right of 'active' (usually 'today'), it will go to the most recent activity that has occurred.

I have trouble finding changes, sometimes, myself.

humn

you dog! i've tried clicking on that for just that reason and it never worked before... works every time now... maybe i was right clicking

Khale_Kitha

4:54 PM

hehe

question_asker

holy freakin moly!!!

what a good trick, thanks kk

Khale_Kitha

=D

humn

@Khale_Kitha the shade of the ?s are very close to the left margin background here and look like lakes or a delta region

Khale_Kitha

Time to work for a bit - Fairy Tail soundtrack on, on amazon music - active music makes it easier to work , for me, sometimes =D

Huh - I don't see a left margin

humn

left margin where our names and mug shots are

Khale_Kitha

4:56 PM

It matches the border of my browser, but that's because it's the same color as I have set for my Windows color =D

Sorry, humn - I still don't know what you're referring to

humn

on this page? the background color definitely matches between q_a's and my screenshots

right, not as rich as your question marks, but at this scale it doesn't have to be

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, it's a greyish

Ah, you're referring to the anti-color in the image?

It's a bit darker, but I see what you mean

Honestly, I used a full color replace for the green with the purple and that was the incidental color that the question marks changed to, from black

humn

right,,, not just some ?s, described it wrong

Khale_Kitha

np

humn

worked out well!

Khale_Kitha

5:00 PM

I thought so =D

I was going to do a select color replace, but...

The original image was jpg and the "person" had been anti-aliased, so it would have looked REALLY bad around the edges.

humn

ho, familiar problem

i'm still puzzled by color in general anyway, seems like almost every works great, just some works more great

Khale_Kitha

I wish I could understand the music that I am listening to =D

It's a balancing act, imo

question_asker

what are you listening to?

humn

that mashup?

Khale_Kitha

Soundtrack for Fairy Tail

one of the only anime tracks on Amazon's prime collection

question_asker

5:02 PM

an anime came up when I googled, is that what you mean?

Khale_Kitha

wtf!!

question_asker

aha

Khale_Kitha

sorry, lol....

Remember what game I said, earlier, that I really wanted to play?

This just flew by, on my twitter...

gamasutra.com/view/news/269726/…

Oh. Yes, in answer to your question.

question_asker

oh wow, haha

Khale_Kitha

@ChrisCudmore Haha, look at my link =D

question_asker

5:04 PM

I had no idea that nethack was even remotely "live" anymore

Khale_Kitha

The new graphics look just like the old Castle of the Winds game

(From 25+ years ago)

question_asker

(I'm just using "live" as a shorthand for "people are making new versions of it, eventually" and now I've ruined my shorthand by taking the time to explain it)

Khale_Kitha

Haha

Chris Cudmore

Sweet.

Khale_Kitha

It's so funny, though - my boss and I were talking, yesterday morning, about this game.

It's so funny [awesome] when Japanese music switches to English, every few words =D

question_asker

5:07 PM

I enjoy that, having little bits of english sprinkled into an otherwise non-english song

Khale_Kitha

Yeah

It reminds me of my friend, that I mentioned a while back, whose family always switched between Persian, Armenian, and English, every few words, when talking =D

question_asker

haha

humn

[message-writing time]

question_asker

sometimes I think that the questions on the workplace SE are written by space aliens

20

Q: Is it ethical to swap my chair with one in a conference room?

I work at a small-ish company with less than 50 people. We have one conference room/board room that is used around 30-40% of the time. Now as a startup we are very cash-strapped and as a result our chairs have never been replaced. We buy new ones when we need to but I don't think we've ever thro...

Khale_Kitha

Hahahahaha

I did that, when I started here.

question_asker

5:12 PM

I mean

Khale_Kitha

My boss said: "You didn't tell me that."

question_asker

admittedly that particular question has a tiny bit more meat to it than the title implies

Khale_Kitha

I couldn't sit in the chair I was given.

It was extremely painful, h eh

question_asker

but gosh, I would not even think twice about swapping my bad chair for a superior chair that no one is using

Khale_Kitha

"Completely off the point, but if your management is too stupid to realize that having programmers work on unusably slow machines (and on bad chairs) is extremely bad business, then they are incompetent. "

question_asker

5:13 PM

I mean, I might expect some very minor, completely forgettable blowback

Khale_Kitha

Can I upvote this, a few hundred times?

question_asker

but I would never think "this might be unethical"

oh my god seriously

Khale_Kitha

"

If I walked into a programming job and they sat me down in front of a five year old computer, I'd start sending out my resume again as soon as I got off work."

Last one (by the same person): "

Programmers are expensive and hard to find. Refusing to give them the tools they need to be as productive as possible is incredibly short-sighted. Adding an extra minute to the build/test/debug cycle can take hours out of someone's week. That doesn't mean all programmers need a new computer every six months, but five years is pretty darn old for any software development work besides testing how an application performs on an older machine. "

On the contrary to that, though

I find it fascinating the game companies who develop their game on i7 5Ghz machines with SLI Titan X video cards and don't understand why the game doesn't run on their customer's PC's.

question_asker

yeah

Khale_Kitha

"If anyone is reading this while specing out a new office - this line of reasoning, while applicable, is a massive false economy. Make your staff comfortable and they will have one less reason to leave as soon as the clock strikes 1700."

Chris Cudmore

5:16 PM

We work on a 3 year replacement for all computers.

question_asker

I straight up do not understand releasing games that Don't Work Yet

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, my old company did that, as well, Chris. This one is more financially strapped.

question_asker

I agree with that comment too, KK

Khale_Kitha

I'm working on the same machine that I used when I started at my previous company 4 years ago.

It does the job I need, though.

question_asker

I mean, a lot of people are making assumptions about that person's office

saying that the conference room is used for "visitors"

I work in a much bigger company than that person, granted, but we pretty much never use our conference rooms for anything other than (100% internal) meetings

so my line of thought is: fuck the people who only have to sit in those chairs for like 1-2 hours, max. give the good chairs to the people who have to sit in them all day.

Khale_Kitha

5:18 PM

That person's company only apparently had 1 conference room - but still

question_asker

yeah

Khale_Kitha

I will admit to being turned off from a company when their meeting room chairs were all mismatched and trashy..

But I didn't let it affect my opinion of the job

Because it was unrelated.

question_asker

yeah

at the end of the day, your company is benefiting from your labor

Khale_Kitha

That being said, I'm not going to sit in a meeting room chair, reminiscent of the Adam Sandler's POS Car seat. :P

question_asker

the least they can do is make you as comfortable as possible while you're doing it

haha

Khale_Kitha

5:20 PM

:P

One of the guys on that post...

For a moment, I thought he had 122k gold badges =D

question_asker

yow

Khale_Kitha

yeah

Still he had like 23 or so

question_asker

ohhh yeah that's definitely what it looks like, at first glance

god

I hope SE is paying that guy

Khale_Kitha

clue on the music puzzle

The song is shorter than it should be and OP has implied that it's a clue

question_asker

part of the reason I never participate in any of the musical/visual steganography puzzles is because, when I get home, where I actually have tools to do stuff like that, I want to do anything but what I spent most of my day doing

Khale_Kitha

5:27 PM

hehe

Chris Cudmore

Could those vertical lines be where a note or two were edited out?

Khale_Kitha

Depending on the cut method, sure, if someone wasn't careful

There was something about silence at the start, though...

Dropbox downloads are REALLY bloody slow, though

So this tiny 50Mb file is taking 3 minutes to re-download

It's actually annoying to edit a sound file so that it loops, properly, from experience, without a pop

So it could be a similar issue

The tiny silence, at the start. Maybe the Galactic Empire is invading?

This silence, btw, is about a half second

I don't have a copy of the "original" though

Chris Cudmore

@Khale_Kitha I think I've played that video game!

Khale_Kitha

haha

Khale_Kitha

5:46 PM

Hahahah, that's cute: "What is artificial light made of?"

(I'll answer it when I get back)

"Fauxtons"

wow

haha

I'm clapping

lol

I hate answers like this puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/28811/17250

[quoting first line]
>! [answer]
[quoting second line]
>! [answer]
[quoting third line]
>! yep, it's [answer]
[quoting fourth line]
>! you guessed, it's [answer]!

Khale_Kitha

5:56 PM

Totally, not an answer

Okay, I can't vote as that - low quality, then.

question_asker

lol somebody did the world a favor and got rid of the argument in the comments on the question there

because there was a whole thing about how apparently my answer was kinda-sorta right but not specific enough for the OP

Khale_Kitha

I'm almost certain the answer is "radiation'

but the Op hasn't made any comments

question_asker

well