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12:00 AM
What about orienteering?
 
@Mithrandir and guarantee 0% stack overflow
@Alex black sports pants
And high socks
 
Dec 30 '18 at 21:12, by Jenayah
@Alex "most people have socks" [citation needed]
 
And a jacket with sleeves and a hood
 
What I actually use cycles from my desk to getting used to the laundry and then back to the desk. Everything else just stays hidden unused in the closet.
 
And I still get ticks -_-
@Mithrandir the what? Oh, the piece of wood under lecture notes?
 
12:02 AM
@Mithrandir I don't see any clothes on the desk:
 
@Alex it was laundry day?
 
@Jenayah Or picture day.
 
Or different, temporary desk.
 
*desk not actually visible
It's got lots of papers camera equipment and stuff everywhere, the clothes just get put on top :p
 
@Alex ah, no, I get it. The invisibility cloak is on the desk
 
12:06 AM
@Jenayah So clothes = Invisibility Cloak?
That kind of simplifies things.
 
Yeah. Bit of a pain in the changing room though
 
12:55 AM
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Q: Girl, Mars, Hot Air Balloon, & sci-fi

Carla BrothI once read a description for a book about a girl from mars who I think was around 12 & somehow got to London in a hot air balloon but it took place in the past not future, I’m looking for a book to read & want to read this one, just can’t find it anywhere.

 
1:25 AM
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Q: chapter 6 harry potter the journey from platform nine and three quarters

Michael CormierIn chapter 6 of harry potter how does harry get to platform nine and three quarters.How does he figure out how to get there

 
 
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2:42 AM
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Q: Book about persecuted group fleeing earth, finding and settling new planet, new life, get hunted down by earth persecutors

JaredRead a book in the mid 2000s about a group that was persecuted, Christians I believe,that accidentally discovered ftl travel. They built a ship and left earth. They discovered a new planet, filled with new plant and wildlife. They were still persued even after leaving earth. I would like to revi...

 
 
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3:43 AM
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Q: Star trek vengence vs Krall swarm ships

Moses Liao GZAssuming that Admiral Alexander Marcus has no knowledge of the VHF, will he and vengence stands a chance against Krall Swarm ships?

 
 
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5:21 AM
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Q: What's with "killing you where you stand"?

ThePopMachineI have noticed the recurring expression "I will kill you where you stand". The first is Worf in Star Trek: First Contact: We also have Te'alc in Stargate SG-1: And in Black Panther: And finally ...

Should this be retagged? Was looking through old messages and saw you wanted that tag cleaned up.
 
@Stormblessed The problem with this is that three of the four tags used state that they should be used in conjunction with an additional tag. But you can only have 5 tags, so that is an impossibility.
 
5:43 AM
It can be left as is
is on the nuke list, hence the reject (FYI)
 
 
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7:09 AM
It looked impossible and to an ordinary cat it would be, but Glenn was no ordinary cat. https://t.co/5FNijhDFcV
 
@Jenayah That guy must be trying to impersonate me.
in The Awkward Silence, Nov 26 '18 at 21:51, by scohe001
@Alex this. My guess is you're either actively Jewish, or you're Jew-ish
 
Or he is you!
 
You never know...
 
7:51 AM
0
Q: Is the Black Mirror episode where somebody's memory is erased based on the movie Prestige?

TimothyI think both of those stories are based on the theory that a consciousness is a future of another counciousness if it has the memories of the other counciousness. In Prestige, Angier keeps cloning himself and having the clone die in order to perform a magic trick where he teleports. At the end, t...

 
8:37 AM
0
Q: Help Identifying anime about boy & card game

MajortizzleI was hoping someone here might be able to help me identify an anime I've been searching for on and off for the last few years. I've tried searching the internet and various anime websites with the descriptions I can recall about the show but to no avail unfortunately. I probably watched the ani...

 
 
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10:47 AM
0
Q: Why did robots ran away?

Ver NickIn the end of the epic scene fighting with Ultron robots run and fly away from Hulk like they have emotions and fear. Their goal is to get to the drill, isn't it? Why did they behave like people?

 
 
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12:12 PM
0
Q: Why does Grindenwald still posses the Elder Wand?

janiszAt the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Gellert Grindelwald is overpowered by Newt Scamander and taken to prison. Why does he still posses the Elder Wand?

 
12:58 PM
0
Q: Why are characters in Star Trek so specific when speaking?

userIs there an in-universe explanation as to why characters in Star Trek are often excessively specific when speaking? For example, why refer to a "sonic shower", when they are the standard type of shower on board Voyager and normally such unnecessary detail would be quickly dropped. In real life w...

 
 
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2:28 PM
I’ve been looking through these Harry Potter fan fiction ids
They’re weird
I don’t think they should be on-topic
 
Lots of users don't like them but not liking something doesn't necessarily mean it should be off topic
 
0
Q: Which SFF work first had the idea of the antagonist restarting life by wiping it out?

TheLethalCarrotI was wondering about this after I realised that Dr. Isaacs in Resident Evil wants to wipe out humanity again and then restart it with a chosen few so life stands a better chance. Dr. Isaacs: I propose that we end the world... But on our terms. An orchestrated apocalypse. One that would clean...

 
Something very strange happened today. I lost around 130 rep due to voting reversal. This is the first time, it's happened to me.
 
I've had it a couple of times, should be nothing to worry about though
If you'd have done anything wrong I'm sure you'd know about it
 
Yeah, I hope so as well. Because I haven't posted answers in a long time until yesterday. So today I was surprised to see that I somehow crossed 2500 before coming back down. The help center says that people sometimes go through a single person's answers, and if those upvotes are cast in a short period of time, it gets reversed.
 
2:41 PM
Aye the system will auto reverse a large number of votes, either way, cast in a short period of time. I think the mods have some tools for tracking down suspicious voting over a more spread out time frame but I wouldn't know details or want to give them if I did!
 
@TheLethalCarrot That makes sense. If people knew the mechanics of it, they'll game the system.
 
@TheLethalCarrot There's a magic gerbil. But he's very sensitive, so the first rule regarding the magic gerbil is - you don't talk about the magic gerbil.
 
I mean the mechanics for the auto reversal can be trivially found out to the point it's only really useful to catch the naive out
 
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
@Donald.McLean A magic gerbil and a unicorn!? These truly are wonderful times
 
 
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3:51 PM
@Stormblessed do you think just HP fanfic-id should be off-topic, or all of them?
(yes, I am aware fanfic-id is 95% HP, but the question remains)
 
Then you also have the question of even though some most fan fic is low quality there are some quite liked ones... at least one even has its own tag on the site
So would you blanket ban all fan fic or only the low quality ones? If so how would you define low quality?
 
@Jenayah About 78% if the tags are to be believed.
 
Or is it some the content of the fan fics you want to make off topic?
 
@Alex did you try with only or both it and story-id tag?
(on mobile and lazy :P )
 
If so this is probably relevant
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Q: Should we have a policy on questions about adult topics in SFF?

Rand al'ThorWhile we have a long-standing policy that it's OK to ask about adult topics here - everything from sex to rape to bestiality - there have also been quite a number of questions in recent years which have stirred up controversy and disagreement within the community as to how they should be handled....

@Jenayah I think the 78% comes from 142 fan fic Qs with 111 of them also being tagged HP
 
4:00 PM
Just saying because some questions are tagged fanfic but aren't identification
 
@Jenayah Good point. Factoring in it's about 83%.
@TheLethalCarrot Indeed, that was my calculation. But as per Jenayah's objection, it should be 111 tagged with all three, and 19 of them without .
 
Damn 83%, that's still huge
 
Unrelated: Is it just me, or are the vast majority of network chat flags from Math associated rooms?
 
The ones I used to see all came from Russian language rooms
it’s possible a recent user disagreement has sparked debate and ensuing flags
 
Ah? Never really noticed such a trend. Then again I don't see much of them to begin with
 
4:07 PM
Well there were just two from Math. A couple more a couple days ago. And I remember a lot of others going back a few weeks.
 
I've only seen the first from Math today but I haven't been in chat too much recently. That said I didn't actually see much wrong in that particular message that warranted the flag
 
I almost never vote on them. There's almost always an entire backstory context.
 
Oh yeah most chat flags that I've seen need one to read a huge backlog of transcript for context
 
I mean, there are plenty of messages in here calling people dumb, stupid, foolish, etc. but in context they were clearly said jokingly.
 
That's the problem with chat flags, they are designed to be assessed without context
 
4:18 PM
Fun experiment: flag messages that have flaggy keywords but were not actually problematic. See if the 10,000 Reputationers do enough work to know that the flags should be invalid, or just automatically mark them as valid. But the experiment would probably have negative consequences, so probably not a good idea after all.
 
Please don't.
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Nov 2 '18 at 17:17, by Alex
Oct 15 at 8:34, by Alex
I hear ya. (By the way, not all the actions I ask about are things that I actually want to do. Most of the time I am just probing the theoretical behavioral limits for the sake of theory.)
 
Dec 2 '18 at 11:46, by John Rennie
Whoever just flagged Jenayah's post please note that flags are for seriously offensive posts not criticisms of the SE search facilities. Please don't cheapen the flag system by mis-using it.
Dec 2 '18 at 11:48, by John Rennie
Yes, someone flagged:
Nov 29 '18 at 16:47, by Jenayah
SE search sucks
^ still no idea how one would come to flag that xD
 
@Jenayah Would you be willing to recommend music that you like? I'm always looking for good stuff that is new to me.
 
4:32 PM
@Jenayah I’m seriously offended that you degrade Stack Exchange’s search.
 
I always wondered why they didn't simply use the same algorithm they use when you type in the title when asking your question. That seems to work significantly better for some reason.
Or at least offer it as an option somehow.
 
I've never worked out why the that title duplicate feature doesn't take tags into account
Also I'd imagine the title one only looks at titles whereas search checks the body too
 
Well, search generally works more restricted/deterministic, you type in some word and get exactly those. While the title algorithm seems more elaborate/enigmatic. But still, the duplicate search algorithm could use more prominence without requiring you to ask a pseudo-question, since it tends to work quite well.
 
TBF if you're searching on SE you're doing it wrong anyway
 
And it's pearls before the pigs, since I can't imagine a new user to look at that list remotely attentively. While avid users on the other hand aren't going to pretend asking a question to get it.
@TheLethalCarrot How so?
 
4:39 PM
Google and the like are generally a whole lot better
 
But SE search has all the neat meta features. Are you telling my Google can employ these, too?
 
Unless you're doing some advanced search and even then I imagine you could replicate most of them to some extent
 
infavorites:mine [mistborn] -[wax-wayne-novels] closed:no score:1
That's just awesome. (Granted, the example makes more sense on a site where I actually have 400 favourites.)
 
I mean sure some of them are best staying with SE search but at that point you're probably looking for something very specific anyway so you're very unlikely to get a tonne of results back
 
@NapoleonWilson I've done that many a time.
 
4:42 PM
Well credit where credit is due the meta features of SE search are good but the general word matching stuff is pretty terrible
... when compared to a lot of other searches
 
Because they try to work exact. They don't try to be smarter than you, that has pros and cons.
 
In todays world, I, like many other users I've seen complain across the network, think that's a bad thing
 
@NapoleonWilson Probably depends on how smart the user is.
 
Hmm, I probably rarely ever use the word search anyway, unless it's about a single word.
I tend to go by tag first and on my site that often means I can quickly scan the ~30 results manually anyway. On a site with 5,000 Harry Potter questions that can get more difficult.
 
There are often Harry Potter keywords that can be used to significantly narrow the scope.
 
4:47 PM
I often know what I'm looking for anyway, since I tend to have a reasonable question memory.
I probably use the search more for deliberate maintenance acts than genuine duplicate search.
And in that case being able to list all the closed questions with positive score for a specific tag is really nice.
 
I once closed a question as a duplicate by copying and pasting its title into the "ask question" page and using the results it turned up.
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Q: How can this question about Inferno be asked on this site?

the-profile-that-was-promisedThe novel Inferno written by Dan Brown isn't a science fiction or fantasy novel. So how can anyone ask question about this novel in the Science fiction & Fantasy site? Why was the ending reversed in the movie "Inferno"

 
> I think it's on-topic there
 
Cheers
I haven't looked into the Trivia policy properly yet to know exactly what falls under it except the obvious cases for it so didn't want to state as such confidently
 
How can this remotely be "trivia"?
 
5:01 PM
Like I said haven't really looked at it or examined this question too much tbh
 
(Wow, we really don't seem to be able to get that policy across to people.) ;-)
 
> Unimportant trivia that does not add to the understanding or appreciation of the title.
 
I have spent next to no effort looking into it. I think I've read the answers to the mod election question about it and the close reason wording but beyond that nothing
I understand the intent of the policy but not the specifics
 
0
Q: Short story read ~25 year ago where changing person's name prevents a war

BertI believe I read this short story in a collection. A man's wife goes to a consultant to improve his career. The consultant says include your middle initial (I think) Story goes though the effects this has, in the end averting a war. The end has an alien boasting his minor change had a class 4 eff...

 
I know, I'm just joking around, don't worry.
 
5:05 PM
Aye but I know you have had problems with it though
 
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Q: Should movie trivia questions be closed?

chrisjleeShould we allow questions that are intended for trivia? e.g: Who played _ in __ movie / tv ? How many seasons did _ have? Who produced __ show? What was that movie that had __ (person) in it?

 
Well, it's a quite feely "you know it when you see it" issue. It comes with experience. And voters still get it wrong sometimes. But that's how sites work. ;-)
 
Aye, I've been spending a bit more time "recently" in you're queues and seeing how people vote so I am getting a bit more understanding of it anyhow
 
Well, the people in the queues are sometimes wrong, too. ;-P
 
Are mods in chat sometimes wrong? :P
 
5:12 PM
Yes, even when saying how users can be wrong, or how users saying they're wrong can be wrong. Figuring out who's right is the true magic of moderation. ;-)
But when in doubt, usually the moderators are.
 
@NapoleonWilson But how do we know that you're right about that?
 
When in doubt blame everyone
 
@Alex See, that's the spirit!
 
Or y'know
Nov 28 '18 at 13:47, by TheLethalCarrot
Blame @SQB is always the default though right? :P
 
Dec 7 '18 at 7:40, by Ankit Sharma
@Alex blame our mods, they are so active that bad post barely stay for long. But will ping you
From a former Movies moderator.
 
5:17 PM
That's probably why he's so right.
 
@Marvin Finally a that I know, and it's answered 30 seconds before I read it.
 
@Slartibartfast Gheez, that went smooth. I expected some dude to try and come with the dystopian virus bomb argument...uh...oops, forget what I said.
 
Well you've done it now haven't you
 
@Alex Sorry.
 
5:23 PM
@FuzzyBoots Eh, not a problem.
 
Well, it could have been answered by the dude who asked it right when you were done writing your answer.
 
^_^ FWIW, I had a case like that. I posted my self-answer, then Adamant posted his much better answer, so I deleted mine. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149480/…
 
0
Q: Did the cornfield in "It's a Good Life" physically exist, or was it a metaphor?

Dr SheldonIn the classic Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", six-year-old Anthony Fremont (played by child star Billy Mumy) has the power to wish for anything. He often gets angry at other people, punishing them by sending them to "the cornfield". The other people in his town fear him, and do what ...

 
5:38 PM
It's probably about as real as the rye field Holden Caulfield is now eternally strolling through after his eventual breakdown.
 
As I stated in my answer, the original short story had an actual cornfield, which was described, so I suspect that was carried over into the show.
 
6:06 PM
 
hmm
 
6:36 PM
@Donald.McLean sure! opens last watched YouTube video
 
@Jenayah just HP
 
@Donald.McLean translation of the above ^ pastebin.com/bj2b1Krw
it's a song about the freedom fighters in the Spanish Civil War
And the Canadian batallions that went there (the band is from Quebec, although their influences are rather Celtic, musically speaking)
@Alex you poor thing :P
 
6:53 PM
0
Q: Why did Cersei blow out the Sept?

EndgameI get that Cersei hated those religious extremists who made her parade naked in the city, but what was the point of blowing out the entire Sept? It killed lots of innocents (surrounding buildings also got destroyed). The Great Sept of Baelor building also had historic significance. And if she did...

0
Q: Time-spanning alien intelligences gamble with the fate of Earth

DavidWThis earlier question about a seemingly trivial change preventing a nuclear war made me remember a short story I read more than 20 years ago. In the story, there are 2 intelligences (it is not clear if they have any physical form) that are able to randomly access time. They take turns making a ...

 
@Donald.McLean I also recommend the live orchestra version of - wait for it - the Formula One theme song they created this year. Not a 20-seconds jingle thingy before the broadcast, an actual theme tune they air on the track and everything. It's really good :) (well, they did get Brian Tyler to compose t. Guy's not exactly a newbie)
Although the clip with race montage and commentator live comments has quite a feel to it too!
2:05 is a very nicely done homage if you ask me.
You gotta give it to the powers that be of Formula One, they did an absolutely amazing job at improving communication these last two years. Providing high quality replays when they used to shut every. damn. video. posted., compilations, behind-the-scenes and stuff.
@Stormblessed ah. Well that's where it gets problematic. You can't, in all fairness, forbid fanfic-id for one single work, and allow it for all the rest.
No matter how awful HP fanfics are, and how well-thought and maestro-written the others are (which they're... not)
 
7:18 PM
@Jenayah So I'm rich?
yesterday, by Jenayah
So now the poor are rich and the rich are poor so he has to steal from the new rich to give to the new poor
 
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Q: Why didn’t Fiona become an Evil Queen in Shrek 4’s alternate world?

Alex DownsCoz as I addressed in my last question, Was the Evil Queen in Snow White and Shrek the Third a Princess in her youth?, evil queens are princesses who were never saved. And no one came and saved her in that world, so she became bitter.

 
7:48 PM
Give me your bank account credentials I'll tell you
 
I used to bait advanced fee fraud scammers as a hobby.
 
@Buzz So, you're James Veitch?
 
@Jenayah That has a vaguely Irish sound that reminds me of the Dropkick Murphy's.
 
@Donald.McLean googles
 
@RDFozz I had already quit the hobby before he became famous.
 
7:56 PM
@Buzz I still do
 
@Jenayah I like some orchestral music, especially if it is up-tempo and dramatic (Beethoven symphonies). I like that.
 
@Donald.McLean One must also assume you like some 1970s American pop/folk songs, theoretically about American music in the 1950s through 1970s.
Especially those used by Al Yankovic for a Star Wars prequel parody song.
 
I was doing a stationary bike at the gym the other day and they had a virtual ride of the streets of Paris. I was enjoying that when an Alizee song came on, and I was thinking "I should get more music in French"
@RDFozz I like pretty much the entire "American Pie" album. I saw him perform in concert. The guy at the "will call" desk thought it was funny.
I've also seen Weird Al do his version in concert.
Weird Al was superb.
 
@Donald.McLean I like that
 
0
Q: How was Ernest Littlefield able to survive for 50 years?

DaishozenIn Season 1 Episode 11 Heliopolis SG-1 travels to a planet where we first learn of the alliance for 4 races, and discover that Ernest Littlefield had survived his trip through the gate in 1945, and had been living alone until they arrived, some 50+ years later. The wiki page for Heliopolis states...

 
8:11 PM
I heard the Boston Pops perform American Pie at a Fourth of July concert. It was OK.
 
@Jenayah I have three Dropkick Murphy's songs on my iPod. I also have three songs in French, but am hoping to expand that, not the least of which to help me practice.
 
8:27 PM
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Q: Book series I read a few years back with a Marine doing a combat jump onto a planet

BobbyJoe155In the first book the main character joined the Marines and is making his first combat jump onto a planet. No fighting between the main factions happens in our solar system or Alpha Centauri due to the fact that the Earth was almost destroyed. Humans have colonies on planets throughout the galaxy...

 
8:59 PM
@Donald.McLean Bike? French song? Here you go:
And my translation: pastebin.com/EFYr81g4
 
9:13 PM
One of my favorite French songs: youtu.be/PtCNQuX7voA
 
@FuzzyBoots oh boy that's... Embarassing xD
 
^_^ It was one of the songs they played in French class and it just stuck with me.
 
Don't get me wrong everybody knows it, no matter their age, and still bounces their heads on it, but it's 80s kitsch xD
 
Under songs I frequently sing in French: youtube.com/watch?v=YPE6xtrHL3I
I also have a weakness for Jordy songs due to that involving half of the songs our teacher played. :-D
 
@FuzzyBoots Joe Dassin's a classic
 
9:22 PM
There's another one I vaguely remember with the chorus being "Oh jolie Christine ... Mon heroine et ma morphine", but I can't find those lyrics online.
 
One of the story-id gurus can't find something? ;D
 
@Jenayah You got one line to rhyme in translation!
 
@Alex well, it was a rather transparent tranlsation
 
9:36 PM
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Q: Suggestions for Winter Bash 2019

jknappenWinter Bash 2018 is over now, and no one has opened this recurring question for the next round, so I'll just do it. Please post your suggestions regarding how to make Winter Bash 2019 even more fun than the previous Winter Bashes. New suggestions for hats and hat triggers (either regular or se...

get your brains thinking, folks :)
 
@Jenayah I tried to edit your answer, but it wasn't significant enough.
 
I can edit. What did you want to include?
 
@Jenayah Nothing. I wanted to quibble with your grammar.
 
Ah!
well then quibble here and I'll edit :)
 
@Jenayah Don't agree before you see what I'm going to say.
 
9:39 PM
then maybe I'll edit, maybe not
 
You wrote: it's best to at least have a description and basic guidance than absolutely nothing. In that case it should be better rather than best because you are comparing two things. I.e. something can be better than something else, but it can't be best than something else.
Less important, you wrote: an useful tag, which technically should be a useful tag since the word begins with a consonant sound even though the first letter is a vowel.
 
@Alex I saw the best vs. better item, and edited for that - I changed "balanced and fair hat" to "well-balanced hat" (not a necessary edit, but not generally harmful; and blaanced and fair is close to Fox News' old "motto", "Fair and balanced")
@Jenayah Mentioned so you can revert if necessary, and to show @Alex he wasn't being creative enough :-)
 
@RDFozz approved. Thanks for the Fox News info... wasn't aware of that and I certainly don't want to be associated with Fox News :)
 
@RDFozz I've been accused of worse...
I'll just have to earn another 1,113 reputation so I can make edits myself.
 
@Alex that WB2019 post has eyes on it. Think of a funny hat :)
 
9:49 PM
Speaking of which, maybe someone here can help:
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 4 hours ago, by Alex
Does anyone have a screenshot (or know where I can find one) showing what page you are taken to after you sign up for an account on Meta after being redirected from the "Ask Question" button? I'd prefer not to have to create a new account just to find out.
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 4 hours ago, by Alex
(I'm particularly interested in whether it takes you back to the "Ask Question" page, or sends you somewhere else, e.g. the homepage.)
 
@Alex is that about that off-topic questioner who said he got the Ask Question page after registering?
 
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A: Short story read ~25 year ago where changing person's name prevents a war

FuzzyBootsThis is probably Isaac Asimov's "Spell My Name with an "S"". The story concerns Marshall Zebatinsky, a Polish-American nuclear physicist. He is concerned that his career has stalled, and in desperation consults a numerologist for advice on restarting it. The numerologist advises him to change...

^ Argh I'm slow again. That was my guess from the question title.
 
@Jenayah When was that?
 
@Alex yesterday I think, no earlier than Tuesday night
 
@Jenayah I don't think I saw that. I ask for this information because it might help with a theory that I want to post an answer about.
Though it might be related.
 
9:53 PM
Hmm. This hat suggestion reminds me of someone's posting a huge number of bounties on our site just before WB 2018 started. (Was it @Skooba ?). Wonder if there's any connection between the two things....
 
@RDFozz No... It was WebHead... Who apparently deleted his account... :(
 
@Jenayah Hmm - do the bountied keep that rep? If so, seems like a nice gesture before leaving. If not, kind of a ducked up thing to do.
(to utilize your vernacular)
 
Here I am, watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Michelle Gomez is here, and boy is she cool
 
@RDFozz yes, I think it does.
 
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A: Bounties from deleted accounts should still be awarded; al least, the indicator should be removed

Nick CraverGoing forward bounties from deleted accounts will be moved to (owned) by Community and will be awarded at the end of the period as they normally would (e.g. when the bounty starter doesn't award and 7 days is up). While we can't fix history here, it will be more correct/fair in the future, esp...

 
10:00 PM
0
Q: what do wrackspurts actually look like?

Grindelwald fanWhat do wrackspurts actually look like through Luna love goods spectrespecs or any spectrespecs like are they round or square or transparent or what?

 
Wrong snap, crap
 
@RDFozz see scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/1525/timeline which had Community user awarding a 500 bounty
@RDFozz invasion of the ducks :)
 
@Gallifreyan I was telling myself that this guy didn't look like the girl's Wikipedia photo
 
I'm lucky it was that wrong snap, and not some other wrong snap
Anyway, I think @Randal'Thor was impressed by Michelle Gomez's performance in Doctor Who, if memory serves
 
10:03 PM
@Gallifreyan eheh
 
10:14 PM
59
Q: Software Industry - is this normal to feel lost in first month?

LMakerI've been working with software development for nearly 3 years, but always in small companies with 6 employees at most. In Dec 2018, I started to work in a big company and I'm still feeling completely lost. When I started, no one told me about who was my manager or what project I'll working on....

I'm 30 years into it, I'll let you know when that feeling changes. — Richard U yesterday
that's... both reassuring and a little bit firghtening
 
@Jenayah Why hire people if you don't have things for them to do?
 
@Alex December is probably not the best time to get hired
 
@Jenayah Fair point, but still...
It always surprises me when I hear/read about people who don't have much to do at work. If you have 5 employees working 20% of the time you (theoretically) only need 1 employee working 100% of the time.
 
@Alex I... think that kid of maths entirely depends on the nature of the tasks
 
Hence the "(theoretically)". But most of the time, it's simply not productive.
 
10:25 PM
@Jenayah I have been on 4 projects in 6 years and two of them made me feel 'not lost', the other two are a bit of a mess
@Alex because companies take orders to do work that might not appear for ~3 months
 
@Alex Or, as JKR would say, if you have 5 employees working 20% of the time, you only need 20 employees working 200% of the time!
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lol
 
@RDFozz Maybe that's the answer to my question:
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Q: Why did Professor Umbridge specifically inspect Harry's classes?

AlexIn Order of the Phoenix the Ministry passes Educational Decree 23 which gives Umbridge the following responsibility: ‘The Inquisitor will have powers to inspect her fellow educators and make sure that they are coming up to scratch. Presumably Umbridge ended up inspecting every teacher...

Actually, more an answer to the related question:
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Q: When does Umbridge have time to audit the other teachers?

subrunnerThis has to do with the workload of Hogwarts teachers. Subquestion: How many hours does a teacher of the core subjects (DADA, Transfig, Charms, Potions) teach a week? If this question has already been answered, a link would be very helpful! In my estimate however, Umbridge hardly has any free...

 
@Alex Of course, the Potterverse does actually have at least one answer for this (checks) and, I see Rand'alThor mentions that answer (and JKR -maths one) in comments.
 
10:43 PM
where did Newt get the baby Nifflers
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just thought about this, but we only saw 1 Niffler in movie 1, then POOF baby Nifflers, did he buy some more?
 
Ah, so that's what CreationEdge's bounties were for.
 
@Niffler I'd think you'd be more qualified that most to know where baby Nifflers come from.
 
Please cast delete votes: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/202722/98028
(or at leats downvotes)
@NapoleonWilson would seem so
@RDFozz well when a daddy Niffler and a mommy Niffler love each other very much...
 
@Jenayah So I would assume, but they could perform some sort of asexual reproduction. Plus didn't want to bring up parents - perhaps @Niffler is an orphan.
 
11:04 PM
@Alex you know what we told you about mobile app :P
 
@Jenayah I know. But it came up in another room, so I figured I'd post it:
in V'dibarta Bam, 4 hours ago, by Dr. Shmuel
@Alex it seems tag synonyms do not work on mobile, then. Thanks
 
alrighty
 
Personally, I don't think I've ever actually posted a question from the app.
 
11:21 PM
@Jenayah there was only one Niffler though :)
 
11:44 PM
@Jenayah All would be fine, then
I can't find a TV show officially called "Swamp Thing: The Series"
 
@Niffler maybe the other Niffler was hidden in his belly bottomless pocket?
Swamp Thing is a science fiction, action/adventure television series based on the DC Comics character Swamp Thing. It debuted on USA Network on July 27, 1990, and lasted three seasons for a total of 72 episodes. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. == Overview == Developed for television by Joseph Stefano (known for the classic movie Psycho and legendary series The Outer Limits), Swamp Thing was filmed in the brand-new Universal Studios Florida facilities and soundstages by Universal's MTE division. This was granted to demonstrate the new studio because the series could be produced...
It was linked in the comments under the one question in that tag :)
 
It's just two questions, asked the same day, by the same person.
 
Woah they managed to make three seasons of the stuff
There are two?
 
11:59 PM
It was an execrable show.
 
Ooooh nevermind stupid mobile UI not displaying an obvious Unanswered tab
 

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