The Awkward Silence

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10 Replies

02:10

awkward silence

as usual

John

@10Replies I welcome you to the living room. I guess people are traveling on the holiday weekend.

Avantgarde

Silence...

HDE 226868

. . . will fall.

Just checking for Whovians.

Avantgarde

Hi everyone

anonymous2

02:29

Howdy!

Avantgarde

hey

John

Hello to all. I hope you are doing well today!

Avantgarde

Do we just say hello to each other in this room?

John

That and comment about awkward silence. I must say that I am concerned about the slowed pace of people asking questions.

Avantgarde

This room lives up to its name

John

02:45

I wanted to call it Living Room for obvious reasons. And for reasons I guess not obvious to me, it got trounced.

Avantgarde

Well, at least we 2 are talking here

Good enough, for now

John

I'm from California. Are you in the US?

Avantgarde

No. India

anonymous2

@Avantgarde Can make that 3, if you like. :)

Avantgarde

@anonymous2 Of course!

John

02:49

I am from CA, USA.

Many Americans are on the road for the holidays.

anonymous2

@John Duh. Nevermind. It's past my bed time, as you can see. ;)

@John Yep.

John

No problem.

Avantgarde

Are the holidays for an extended period of time?

John

Well, 4 July is on Tuesday. So many are taking Monday off and making it into a really long weekend.

Avantgarde

Good plan

anonymous2

02:51

In Quebec, we've got construction holiday coming up July 23 to August 5, 2017.

John

But since I need an Interpersonal Skills site, I am renewing my drivers license on line.

@anonymous2 Sounds really cool -- and extended.

Avantgarde

That's a lot of holiday time

John

@Avantgarde You got any plans? And you @anonymous2

anonymous2

@John Can't really, my summer job keeps me going 6 days a week.

Avantgarde

@John Just the usual. Study, music, sleep. You?

John

02:55

I study part time and work full time. So I am gearing up for my start of quarter which is on Wednesday.

So that is pretty boring actually.

Avantgarde

All the best for that!

John

@Avantgarde Are you a musician or a listener.

anonymous2

Second the motion. ;)

Avantgarde

Probably won't stay like that once it begins

John

@Avantgarde Thanks to all.

Avantgarde

02:57

@John Oh, just a listener :P

John

Yeah, it took all my time in the last quarter.

anonymous2

Returning to school this autumn, so dropping my job, but will probably take it up next summer.

John

@anonymous2 Yeah. Gotta take those opportunities to get ahead. Go for it!

Avantgarde

@anonymous2 Good luck with that

anonymous2

This room is getting so busy, we're going to have to learn to use replies, so that people can follow the conversations. ;)

John

02:58

I am 58. So all my plans have retirement in mind.

anonymous2

Thanks, @John, @Avantgarde.

Thanks!

Avantgarde

@John Ah, I see.

John

Yeah. I'm going to school because I wanted to study certain subjects. That's all. But they do take up a lot of time. (Not complaining)

Avantgarde

They do. Which subjects, if you can tell?

anonymous2

Thanks!

John

03:00

I am an Electrical Engineer, but no longer pursuing that.

anonymous2

Sorry, thunderstorm, internet keeps cutting. :)

John

I am about to take Linear Programming and Electromagnatism. I know... boring.

Avantgarde

Not at all. I've taken both. Hopefully you'll like them

John

@Avantgarde I hope so. These are subjects I have always wanted to study formally.

Avantgarde

@John About time. So, 1 semester for each course?

John

03:04

@Avantgarde No, these are Quarters. So two courses together makes for half-time study. Combine that with full time work and I am busy.

No complaints. I want to do it.

Avantgarde

@John Yeah, certainly.

John

So you have a technical background as well?

Avantgarde

Yes

John

Great.

Maybe most of us are technical guys that want to brush up on the interpersonal end.

Avantgarde

haha

@anonymous2 Do you have a technical background as well?

anonymous2

03:08

@Avantgarde Unofficially, yes.

Did a bunch of free-lancing HTML, javascript, css, dabbled a bit in PHP.

But my real tech world was Qbasic.

Avantgarde

@anonymous2 Oh nice. QBasic. I haven't heard that name in years. Did that a long time ago

anonymous2

I loved the language. Worked well on DOS, anyhow. :)

Got to the point where I designed a program to open bitmaps on our old MS-DOS.

Had to figure out how a bitmap worked in the binary first, but it was a fun project.

Avantgarde

Fun

anonymous2

Also made a 3D tetris game that worked on DOS (the graphics were just barely fast enough, even at top speed.

Anyhow, that's my tech.

John

Sounds great.

I've gone programming, but only tangentially when it worked in my field. It was and is great to do.

Are you guys enjoying the site so far?

Avantgarde

03:14

Making a game is pretty good in my book

SE is amazing

I didn't even know there were so many sites within SE. It's very interesting

John

Yeah. It can really absorb you, eh.

anonymous2

@John I am. Learning a lot, and seeing a few questions that are my level, unlike a lot of the technical SE sites.

John

Great. I got started on the Movies site. I found it totally absorbing. I had to pull myself away (hee hee).

Avantgarde

It's the best technical online community I've found so far. And other sites are also interesting.

John

It makes into academic circles as well. I was in a Theory of Computation class last quarter, and Stack Overflow was mentioned several times. Pretty nice.

Avantgarde

03:22

Stackoverflow is so active. I'm mostly in Physics, which is not that active. Some sites' questions get thousands of views! Insanely high

anonymous2

My personal favourite for views is Workplace.

Avantgarde

Wow, that's very active too

John

I am sure those are all great sites. Yes, the amount of posts is staggering there. Imagine trying to answer all those questions...

Yvette Colomb

04:19

@Avantgarde I know! since we changed the name lol

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Introverted Meta Man.

11:19

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Q: Would questions on reasons and origins be on-topic?

Would questions pertaining to the origins of, or reasons for, particular social practices or points of etiquette be on-topic? Examples might be of the "Why do we say "bless you" for a sneeze, but not a cough?"sort.

discussion

2 hours later…

10 Replies

13:05

How much rep do you need to see upvotes vs downvotes separated? interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/177/… seems to be receiving a lot of both I think

Mithrandir

750 I think

Ghanima

13:49

but not on private beta?

Mithrandir

That was the beta amount.

Yvette Colomb

@10Replies 5 up 3 down

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Q: "View Vote totals" without 1000 rep

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Ghanima

@Mithrandir well it works for me

not to mention that I don't see the reason behind hiding it in the first place (and that it can be retrieved by said user script nonetheless)

Mithrandir

You have SOUP or SOX or something?

Yvette Colomb

I'm literally eating soup right now, so I do have soup

I'm wearing socks

Ghanima

14:04

sigh

Mithrandir

...

Yvette Colomb

vote to close as not funny

Ghanima

yepp ;)

Yvette Colomb

I've finished my soup, so I no longer have soup

Homemade pumpkin soup - delicious (it's winter here - hence the sox and soup)

Ghanima

what could winter in Australia possibly mean? like 20°C?

Yvette Colomb

14:18

lol

Ghanima

meh, this room lives up to its name

Yvette Colomb

it was 14 degrees this afternoon - hey that's cold and 6 overnight - freezing! (well not technically

@Ghanima I

dammit

I'm going to watch netflix with my daughter bbl \o

Ghanima

enjoy

Ghanima

15:19

@YvetteColomb also, FYI, it's 19°C here (feels like 11°C) and it's summer time

Introverted Meta Man.

15:50

Q: For questions, should we assume politeness is required?

I noticed that a fair amount of questions ask for a "polite" solution to a problem. For instance: How do I politely end a cold call I've received? How to politely say, "I know, right?" How to politely refuse money from someone who is insistent? A search of is:question polite gives 18 results,...