The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Alex

01:42

@Jenayah Well not necessarily the "wr" vs the "r", but at least the "e" vs the "a".

Marvin

02:41

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Q: What starfleet ship classes are visible in the Season 1 finalle of Star Trek: Picard?

In season 1, episode 10 of Star Trek: Picard, a fleet of Starfleet vessels arrives. What classes of vessels were present?

Marvin

03:00

0

Q: Who walked in during Angela's meeting with her advisor in Malevolent?

In the 2018 film, Malevolent, one of the early incidents that Angela has showing that her medium abilities are coming out happens during a meeting with her academic advisor. She gets her prior indicators of paranormal activity, a nosebleed and a high ringing in her ears while the door handle star...

movie ghost malevolent

Mithical

04:40

@Alex mhm

Alex

05:22

@Mithical Monday Has Meaning?

Marvin

07:42

0

Q: What's the Name of That Book?

Male author(s). Had this novel between 1996-2000 and was published in the USA sometimes within the decade. Was written in English and was an anthology book. I can recall 3 stories though I DO believe there were more. One story was about a young man who is visited by different friends of his girl...

short-stories young-adult horror anthology-book

TheLethalCarrot

08:42

@Jenayah been playing a bit on iOS, it’s quite fun

Marvin

08:57

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Q: The device is activated, should we assume They will be coming?

In the final episode, the beacon gets activated. Assuming a hypothetical that if we were to give a beacon to another world, saying when you signal us, we will come... does it not virtually guarantee that the activated beacon will bring the beings to the Federation and Romulans doorstep? This ...

star-trek star-trek-picard

Jenayah

11:35

@TheLethalCarrot glad to hear you like it :D

Babel fish

11:55

0

Q: Star Trek Comm Badges

When somebody hits their comm badge and says, for example, “Paris to Captain Janeway”, How is it that Lt. Paris is able to be linked only to the captain’s comm badge in real-time as far as one can tell, as this is quite prevalent from each of the modern shows like TNG, DS9 and Voyager? I can imag...

star-trek

TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah fun to do in the morning at least whilst having a lie in

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot sure, maybe not twelve hours straight ;)

Marvin

12:59

0

Q: Is Lorna Bucket actually Melody Pond AKA River Song?

Having seen the name Melody Pond become River Song, I wondered about Lorna Bucket. She seemed such a strange & interesting character to put in but then have die. Lorna means abandoned. Bucket, a round container with water in it could also be a pond....yes it’s a stretch. But Melody Pond being Riv...

doctor-who time-lord river-song amy-pond

TheLethalCarrot

Ahhh just watch me :P

Jenayah

13:56

Twelve hours of lying in? X)

Jenayah

14:38

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Q: The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network

We are happy to announce that the previously announced follow question and answer feature is now live across the Network, including Stack Overflow, all Stack Exchange sites, and all Meta sites. (International Stack Overflow sites will have it turned on in a day or two once we have translations al...

discussion announcements follow-post

Alex

15:05

Could be useful...

Marvin

15:28

0

Q: Why didn't Han Solo shoot Darth Vader's ship?

In the movie Star Wars: A New Hope, Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon decides to shoot one of the Darth Vader's wing man TIE fighters instead of shooting Darth Vader's TIE fighter. Is there a Star Wars canon explanation for this? It seems to me that the most logical thing for Han Solo to do at t...

star-wars a-new-hope death-star

TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah maybe :P nothing else to do, and Stella does love a lie on

Alex

16:15

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A: The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network

feature-request and/or bug (depending on how one sees it) There is a popup and a tooltip on the following button and they read kind of strange: the popup says "follow this answer to receive notifications"... But if it's in following state, I'm already following it, am I not? a tooltip says cli...

@Jenayah What do you mean that it's contradictory?

Jenayah

@Alex it's like the popup and the tooltip say different things

Alex

The tooltip knows that you're already following it. Therefore it gives you the guidance for unfollowing it.

Jenayah

yes, but the popup should as well

Alex

@Jenayah That's where you confused me. I was almost going to post myself about the fact that it doesn't know you're already following it. But then when you phrased it about a contradiction I thought you might be asking something else.

Jenayah

Not sure where the confusion is, but in any case this can't look right, OCD or no OCD:

Alex

16:33

See, there's nothing inherently problematic about those two messages appearing together. One describes "following" and one describes "unfollowing". The issue is that if you're already following it then the message about following is simply redundant.

Don't mind the OCD.

Jenayah

I think the popup/tooltip pair text may be intended to be the same, at least in the not-followed state they do:

0

A: The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network

bug The follow tooltip is displayed under very specific conditions, which are not "user natural". Steps to reproduce (Windows 10, Firefox 74.0): Pick a post you have never, ever followed Hover over the follow button; this is what you should see (popup but no tooltip): Follow the post ...

Alex

@Jenayah Maybe the pop-up is explaining the general feature, and the tooltip responds to the state you are currently in.

Jenayah

looks weird anyway

and it's buggy :)

Alex

There definitely is some bug there. The only question is what.

Jenayah

@Alex story of my life

Alex

16:41

I thought the story of your life was how you signed up here and got beaten to an answer.

Jenayah

Well, story of my professional life.

Alex

You're not a professional StackExchanger?

Jenayah

Nope

Alex

Now's your chance. Aren't you locked at home with no work to do?

Jenayah

Technically it got more complex than the situation I was in last week

Alex

16:49

Complex = worse?

Jenayah

Last week I couldn't work because my work PC was new, so it didn't have any of the software I needed to work

Mar 19 at 16:13, by Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot yeah, mine too. They gave me a laptop, but they had no time to register its number in the ticketing service, so... I can read my mail, and that's basically it. The closest I have to an IDE is the default Notepad. I have zero access to all the other stuff, so my days are mostly spent refreshing the ticketing service page.

Now I am able to work (colleague gave me an alternative), but the company put us all in forced vacation. So I'm not legally authorised to work :/

Alex

Why would they do that?

Jenayah

Probably saves them money to have everyone on "actual" paid time off rather than half the folks being able to work remotely, and the other half not being able to but still having to get paid

Alex

I suppose.

They can't determine which people are unable to work, and only put those on forced vacation?

Jenayah

I'm pretty sure they could, and actually already have the list, but that while that may help financially, that may cause workers and union uproar. Better to have everyone treated the same

Alex

16:56

So, long story short, you still can't work...

Jenayah

As in, some people can't remote work because they just never were given remote laptops, but their jobs could be done remote. The company just never got to it, so it's not really their fault and they shouldn't be panlised for it, when others have the ability to work and keep their PTO

Others literally can't remote work because their work involves machinery maintainance and other stuff

So it's probably better to have the situation suck for everyone rather than just a select few folks. Pretty sure higher-us weighted it the best they could

@Alex yeah

Alex

@Jenayah Has the government offered to subsidize anything, as in some other places?

Jenayah

To my company specifically, I don't know. To others, yes

They said they'd help smaller companies with the rent, water fees etc

Alex

Interesting.

And it looks like my first virus question just became a Hot Network Question.

Jenayah

congrats, I guess

Alex

17:08

Also my first question since the new Ask Question format. It was quite jarring.

Jenayah

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Q: How should SFF's "Ask Question" page be customised?

The "Ask a question" wizard is now live network-wide: The new ask page is now live on the network!. Ours is very plain right now, but parts of it are customisable: (shortened; see the main Meta post for the full version) The "welcome modal" for new askers (seen with the default text in scr...

discussion status-review asking-questions

^ Maybe I should post an answer to this along the lines of:

> feature-request if Alex is posting a question, display a warning on the side: "Alex, it looks like you're trying to ask a question, which based on your question history will most likely be twisted, and cause brain knots to some other users. Are you willing to live with that on your conscience?"

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Alex

Actually, the message told me that it could find no problems with my question.

So there.

Jenayah

Well of course, the feature's not implemented yet.

Alex

And anyway, hasn't it been quite a while since I've asked a twisted question?

Four months, maybe:

Nov 25 '19 at 1:55, by Jenayah

Mark the day: Alex's twisted questions now cover the movies. :D

Jenayah

You almost had me go back and check your questions. Fortunately I have some survival instinct left

Alex

17:19

I've only posted three questions since that one.

Jenayah

No, you will not have me reading them again

Alex

And I recall you mentioned something about looking at my profile because you hadn't seen any twisted questions in a while.

Jenayah

If I've ever read them to beginn with

Alex

But I can't seem to find that now.

Jenayah

oh?

Alex

17:21

comment-identification

Jenayah

Isn't it rather a chat-message-identification?

Alex

Yeah.

Jenayah

grmbl, I'm so weak-willed when it comes to ID. Now you have me browsing TREU transcripts xD

Marvin

19:31

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Q: 80's - 90's science fiction/fantasy show young female hero - magic tiara/headband?

I'm trying to remember this so hard, I watched it when I was much younger, I think she was a princess and she wore this tiara/headband all the time, I think it was the source of her powers or magical. I might be completely off and it could be a necklace/choker? Does anyone remember anything like ...

story-identification tv fantasy-genre

Marvin

20:27

0

Q: Taking a prisoner's head off and mounting it on a pedestal Science fiction book

I think this was a short story. The story is written from the perspective of the prisoner. The man wakes up having gone through an operation to have his head detached from his body. The head is still alive, mounted on a pedestal with machinery to keep him alive. Once a day a woman comes around t...

short-stories horror science-fiction-genre weird-science

Marvin

22:37

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Q: Short story about corrupt congressman and mental process-heightening drug

So I read this short story a few years back in an anthology I found in a university library. The anthology was titled "Best American Sci-fi" or "Greatest Works of Science Fiction" or something along those lines. I think the story was from the 70s but I have no idea who the author was or what the ...

story-identification short-stories

0

Q: 70s (or earlier) movie with a monster dinosaur in England

I remember from over 50 years ago (!) watching a film on UK television. I've always thought it was titled The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms but I've recently saw some of that and it's not the one I remember. It could have been in colour but my parents only had a b+w TV back then. Some circus people ...

story-identification movie

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