The Quill and Tankard

7:30 AM

tbh, I stumble on some of the basic questions quite frequently

so while they may be easy, they are useful

Yerp

If they weren't there, I wouldn't have written a lot of the programs I have

I found out yesterday that existing questions about the in parameter modifier for C# are annoyingly hard to find

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8:57 AM

Not saying they're not useful just that they're not that useful

I guess. If I look at new C# questions, most of them are really really specific

Well clearly they're pretty damn useful

The easy stuff is what the most people see because the most people access the basics

It also helps the most people as the deeper you get the less people there are doing it.

Kepotx

i see the more upvoted question when i want to learn a new language. it can really give you more undesrtanding of the language and good practices

not saying that it's enough to learn a language by itself, but it's usefull

Okay I'll reword they're helpful and decent but not 1000+ worthy. Just my opinion and I know they help newbies but doesn't mean they are that good

Kepotx

well, as @Edlothiad says, somes answers can be more usefull, but to less people. So the upvote have more value, but only 100 people upvote and not 1000

9:03 AM

@TheLethalCarrot Well every newbie that comes along, sees it and goes "I want to upvote this, it has helped me greatly, oh I need an account, well I'll probably get more help" and then proceeds to create an account an upvote it, upvotes it.

@Kepotx Exactly

I understand the why

WELL ThEN STOp ComPLAIning :)

Forgot smiley so you know I'm not all too serious

Lol

It's all about the smiley.

9:50 AM

oh huh

Just had a weird bug in my code with Linq

Oh I love Linq

me too, but not when weird things happen

What happened like?

var a = b.Select(x => 0.5*x.c);
b.Zip(a, (b, a)=> b -= a);

This modified a

simplified of course, but that's the gist of it

basically, what happened is that a is lazily executed. So the results aren't in yet. So when the second line zips along a, b is modified, a is evaluated with the new b.

So it's the lazy evaluation that caused the bug?

9:55 AM

yep

var a = b.Select(x => 0.5*x.c).ToArray();

did work

or tolist, w/e

Aye

anything that forced the complete evaluation of line 1 before line 2

Annoying when you have to do that

@TheLethalCarrot That's the most English thing you've ever said

Begging your pardon kind sir

9:56 AM

I guess it makes sense, but I didn't expect it to happen

Ones like that are sometimes a right pain to track down too

We've just had an annoying bug that I'm doing a fix for now

total += Int64.Parse(stringValue.TrimStart('0'));

Q: What is the term for Muggles in other countries?

Muggles as we know are the people who have no magical ability and are born in a non magical family. Non magical people are called Muggles in Britain magical community and as 'No-maj' in American community. But we can find wizards in other countries also. E.g Parvati and Padma Patil twins were of ...

what an unclear question

Yup, I interpreted it as in universe but the OP seems fine with OoU answers

Do you have any references to support this? Preferably from HP universe? — Nog Shine 22 mins ago

doesn't seem like he's entirely fine with it

if anything, if it's the latter, it's way too broad

Just odd then

10:01 AM

expect an answer for each translation saying "It's Dreuzels in Dutch"

@JAD The fact that 1, that second answer is so high and 2, the question is so high shows how tainted that tag is...

Am I going to flag this as unclear or not?

OP has clarified that they mean IU now

Well then why does answer number 2 have 13 UVs?

Cos people are idiots

10:10 AM

Oh yeah.

there, that should remove all ambiguity

Well it's cleared it up a bit at least

We really shouldn't have approved that edit, but there you go

hmm?

why not?

Hmm, I guess OP's response is still pretty ambiguous

As far as I can tell OP hasn't explicitly asked for IU answers.

10:20 AM

Meh asking for IU makes the Q on topic anyway so doesn't bother me

Even if it could potentially be changing the Q

OOU is on-topic as well.

Surely it makes it too broad though at that point?

Nope.

In every single language in the world what are muggles called?

There's a definite list of answers.

<1000, not ever growing, sounds fine

10:21 AM

Yeah but it's a few hundred

Oh well that Q is going on my (mental) ignore list

Yerp

I have the tag on ignore, so as long as no other scrubs add answers, I'm gucci

10:37 AM

@TheLethalCarrot that happens in universe as well

Yes but IU is a lot more limited

Cos not every language is going to be mentioned

I've had to ask my gf to turn off my pc at home and that's always a scary thing to do

the stuff of nightmares

She's not technically incompetent but I ask her to go anywhere near my pc and she turns into an idiot

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1:01 PM

She's not technically incompetent? So is she loosely incompetent?

Now that's using a different meaning of the word to change the meaning, this isn't puzzling y'know

Lol

1:45 PM

Hello, I'm Mr Meeseeks! Look at me!

Skooba

2:08 PM

+1. citations provided

T'was the plan

A lot of older A's don't actually include sources

Skooba

yeah some don't really need, but it always helps and a new answer that provides supporting evidence through quotes is always going to get a +1 from me. That one in particular did really need them. I can't believe that old answer had as many upovtes as it did.

Yeah me neither

It's when you get answers like that, that say it's cos of this but I'm not actually going to tell you what this is or where it was

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3:27 PM

The Night King coming back from shopping before Hardhome

3:37 PM

Loooooool