The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Jenayah

5:00 PM

And the seven hours old answer wasn't removed?

post deleted or stuff

Alex

No. The next three times I clicked it it took me straight to the seven hour old answer.

Jenayah

dangit

still, care to link the question? :)

That's a mystery I'm more able to investigate than the Talmud commentaries :)

Alex

@Jenayah And more likely to have an answer.

Jenayah

@Alex aye

though no repro so far

Alex

@Jenayah Of course, it's possible I imagined the whole thing...

Jenayah

5:05 PM

@Alex that would be called a CKI bug... The most common of them all :)

(Chair/Keyboard Interface :p )

eighth layer of OSI model also applies

Alex

@Jenayah Good thing you explained, because I was looking at "Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein".

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein

A cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein is a protein which inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase. Several function as tumor suppressor proteins. Cell cycle progression is negatively controlled by cyclin-dependent kinases inhibitors (called CDIs, CKIs or CDKIs). CDIs are involved in cell cycle arrest at the G1 phase. == Examples == == References == == External links == Cyclin-Dependent+Kinase+Inhibitor+Proteins at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)...

Jenayah

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Q: Linking to /?lastactivity breaks when that activity is on second or greater page

When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here: Clicking this takes you to the link https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312850/the-second-draft-o...

^ maybe

Alex

I guess my googling skills are not as good as yours.

Jenayah

@Alex it's more of a programmer joke :p

Alex

@Jenayah That sound s similar, except two things.

Jenayah

5:08 PM

exact phrasing may vary depending on individuals

Alex

1) it only happened one time. 1) it led to a different answer rather than the question.

@Jenayah I haven't the foggiest idea what that is...

Jenayah

@Alex it's basically a pattern of layers you go through when computers communicate

there are seven layers

each layer communicates with the layer above and the one below

the "last" one (the seventh) is called the "application layer" and it represents what should be done with the applications/softwares

so basically the seventh layer will "report" to an "invisible" eighth layer which is the user

so when you say the issue originates from the 8th layer in OSI model it's just another way of poking at the user :p

just like the chair/keyboard interface

Alex

@Jenayah At least chair/keyboard is somewhat self-explanatory.

Jenayah

@Alex granted

Alex

@Jenayah Though you did provide a good explanation for the other.

Jenayah

5:23 PM

@Alex mmmh... it's the outlines, I did skip stuff

Alex

@Jenayah I wouldn't know the difference.

Unrelated, can I ask you another French question @Jenayah ?

Jenayah

@Alex sure

Alex

@Jenayah In the following sentence is there any indication of what the sin is:

la précaution n'était pas inutile, et la rapidité avec laquelle maître Germain se retira prouva qu'il n'était point exempt du péché qui perdit nos premiers pères

Jenayah

@Alex possibly

the way I read it, Germain drawing back quickly and it being regarded as a "sin" along what the "old fathers" would do indicates that maybe the "old fathers" (deans?) were prone to jumping to conclusions or something

although I'd like the full sentence if you have it :)

Alex

@Jenayah It's from my question on Literature:

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Q: What is "the sin which ruined our first parents" in The Count of Monte Cristo?

The opening of Chapter 12 of The Count of Monte Cristo describes a meeting between Villefort and his father Noirtier, on which a servant apparently attempted to eavesdrop. The passage (translation from Chapman & Hall 1846 with my emphasis) reads as follows: M. Noirtier – for it was, indeed, h...

meaning french-literature the-count-of-monte-cristo alexandre-dumas-pere

Donald.McLean

5:37 PM

@Alex I almost followed that! I guess my rusty French is not completely gone.

Alex

@Donald.McLean It's definitely better than mine.

Donald.McLean

Another example of the kind of precog that Alice from Twilight exhibited. Not a Wikipedia link because neither the author nor any of her books have Wikipedia entries even though she won a Phillip K Dick award: jeanjohnson.net/theirs-not-to-reason-why

Alex

M. Noirtier prit alors la peine d'aller fermer lui-même la porte de l'antichambre, revint fermer celle de la chambre à coucher, poussa les verrous, et revint tendre la main à Villefort, qui avait suivi tous ces mouvements avec une surprise dont il n'était pas encore revenu.

@Jenayah Here's the full French original: M. Noirtier, car c'était en effet lui-même qui venait d'entrer, suivit des yeux le domestique jusqu'à ce qu'il eût refermé la porte; puis, craignant sans doute qu'il n'écoutât dans l'antichambre, il alla rouvrir derrière lui: la précaution n'était pas inutile, et la rapidité avec laquelle maître Germain se retira prouva qu'il n'était point exempt du péché qui perdit nos premiers pères.

Jenayah

@Alex I looked up the original French and it reads more like Germain is disrespectful of others' privacy

though granted, since said privacy was taking place in a bedroom, it could be that Germain is a perv, so yeah tracing back to the lust, original sin and all

b_jonas

Wow! My question has a bounty posed!

Jenayah

5:47 PM

@b_jonas on SFF? I don't see it

Alex

@Jenayah Thanks. Just wanted to make sure there weren't any nuances in the original language that were lost in translation that might have given a more specific hint to what it's referencing.

Jenayah

then again @Alex in the previous scene, Villefort made Noirier wait for quite a time, so since it's bound to be a son/father discussion it might just be disrespect without any metaphor

@Alex then again I'm not a literature student

b_jonas

@Jenayah No. That's the funny part. It's my only question on Super User.

Jenayah

@b_jonas obligatory "Skype is a pain, get Discord already"

b_jonas

@Jenayah People have commented that. But don't I already address that in the question? I'm using Skype at work on the work machine because that's what the co-workers are trying to use. They're even trying to force me to use some online software service that looked even worse than Skype the last time I looked at it.

Jenayah

6:01 PM

@b_jonas Framatalk?

the quip about Discord was just for the running gag

and as for the actual question... I have no idea :/

b_jonas

You know, one of those things that wants me to sign away the rights for my first born child and everything we do at work for them to use in any way unconditionally, with their software handling all the fiddly details of uploading that if I just click through the agreement.

At my previous job, I managed to convince my supervisor not to use a certain piece of software like that that they were planning to use: that one was some verison control integration thingy that wanted them to own anything we commit to the version control repository. Here my chances of talking them off are probably less, since it's a less techy company, and since it's not that clear of a case.

But even if I do, I'll have to spend a few really uncomfortable hours reading through the stupid legal agreements just so that I have positive proof for why I don't want to use that service, even though I know in advance that they have such a rule somewhere, I just might be unable to locate sufficient proof.

It's tricky, because they always have blanket clauses about how they can modify their service agreement at any time, and by continuing to use their service, I implicitly agree to the modified agreement, and then they modify their legal text once every week, and obviously you don't have the time to diff the modifications to find when they add the nastier clauses.

They always phrase those terms in such a way that they have a right to modify the agreements to suddenly start charging any amount of money for us using their service. That's the lesser danger, because they sure as hell won't be able to actually enforce that, but it may sometimes be easier to point that out than the shady clauses on intellectual rights.

Not that SE is much better, but still, for a work project there'd be much more private business details they share with them than what I choose to do on SE.

@Jenayah No

@Jenayah The ones I'm talking about aren't voice chat or video chat software.

Marvin

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Jenayah

oh okay!

b_jonas

6:16 PM

And the problem is, I don't want to read those stupid legal agreements on my own time, but it's hard to read them in company time when we're so busy.

And, while the bank and mobile phone companies etc have similar terms, those are based in Hungary, so I'm more easily protected by laws than with a foreign-based country.

I think I should tell my supervisor the particular story about why we didn't use that other service, to help her understand.

Understand why I'm so reluctant to use this online service that is.

I don't want to personally sign an agreement where I personally claim to give them rights to all sorts of property of the company and its project.

Marvin

6:45 PM

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Donald.McLean

Just one unanswered twilight question remains.

Marvin

7:17 PM

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Jenayah

7:33 PM

@Marvin because Arrowverse's handling of superpowers is stupid

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Marvin

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Marvin

8:04 PM

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Slartibartfast

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Marvin

8:19 PM

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Marvin

8:35 PM

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Marvin

9:06 PM

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Alex

11:25 PM

Sep 14 at 18:11, by Alex

@Jenayah The truth is, though, that especially on a site like this, my questions aren't the sort that need answers. If I don't get an answer, I'll just remain with a question on a work of fiction. It's more about the process of articulating a question, and seeing if people agree with it, and seeing if we can get into a debate about it, and seeing if I missed anything when reading the books.

Marvin

11:58 PM

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