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4:28 AM
@El'endiaStarman ah flashbacks
I like that you used the period
;p
 
A J
@ankii 5=> Pentalogy, 6=>Hexalogy, 7=> Heptalogy. A question about Heptalogy was asked in KBC too.
 
5:14 AM
So now I would be able to walk around counting dogs or people in groups, just to give them a name
It should have been a lower half question I guess
 
6:10 AM
@Rainbacon If it helps you that's all that mater. Also, HNQ power for you! \o/ (too bad it's during the weekend, though, less rep for all of us :p )
Also, I'm glad the other question isn't on IPS anymore. Most of the answers overthere were really IPS bad
 
 
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8:10 AM
Morning... Happy Friday everyone!
 
JAD
hai
 
How's everyone in here?
 
JAD
8:47 AM
chilly
 
Same here.... working from home, wrapped in a blanket... still having ice cold fingers :|
 
JAD
I'm sitting right next to the heating at work, so that's nice :)
 
I can hear mine is on... I should try and reposition the screens so I can sit with my back against the radiator, I guess...
 
A J
@Tinkeringbell coughing
 
Oof. Get well soon :) Have you tried eating sweets? :-)
 
A J
9:00 AM
I have been eating sweets since last five days, which we got during the festive season this week. In fact, I have brought some along at work. ;)
 
9:20 AM
Oof, but that sounds nice too! :)
Now I want sweets too
 
9:55 AM
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Q: How to stop my boss's son physically bullying me

teslajinI'm not sure if this is better suited to the Workplace but I got a new job about three months ago and it's been great so far, the boss is a typical high energy CEO but he has some anger problems. Once I dropped one of our prototypes and he yelled at me and told me to go home (it was at 10am so I ...

 
10:10 AM
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Q: Was my answer deleted? Can I see my deleted answers somewhere?

simplemindI answered a question (How to schedule meetups effectively?) on how to schedule a meeting effectively. Now I cannot find my answer anymore. Was it deleted? If yes, why? Is there some kind of notification I missed? Can I see my deleted answers somewhere?

 
 
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11:35 AM
question formulating
 
Is it going to be a good, fun one? :D
 
Define "fun"
 
One that requires some citations to answer :D
Where you dive in, and end up learning something yourself along the way...
 
Dunno. It deals with a generation gap, so... we'll see.
 
11:52 AM
@Tinkeringbell 58 and fun go together as well as a cricket bat and a Pinata, respectively.
58's these days.
@Tinkeringbell I'm working on typing something for the gen. chem class and it involves this type of fun
 
12:17 PM
@Ælis It'll be ok. I'm sure you'll get plenty of rep
 
12:36 PM
@M.A.R. Well those two will probably work out some way or another ;)
 
12:47 PM
Happy world vegan day @Ælis ;)
 
1:21 PM
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Q: How can I appear experienced when I actually have the experience, but look younger than I am?

PakkI look younger than I am. Some might think that is beneficial, but I have never recognized any advantage, and felt hindered at several times: Aged 16, I helped my school to give tours to future students (age ~12). Teachers who did not know me, kept coming to me, asking if I had made my school c...

 
@Ælis Thank you for all of the comments you've left on the answers to the previous HNQ.
 
1:46 PM
@ExtrovertedMainMan people either think I'm 18 or 15.
 
Heh. Lots of Workplace questions today ;)
 
....for instance, when people were offering me beer last night... although that's be expected when you're helping set up a sound system at a bar. ;)
 
@ExtrovertedMainMan This one probably needs a clearer goal/research effort?
@user58 If you're allowed in, you're allowed to have a beer ;)
 
Still technically illegal...
 
@Rainbacon Yeah, but we could have had more! :p
@Tinkeringbell Didn't even know that it was a thing :p But thank you :D
 
1:56 PM
(I only knew because of Twitter, and it made me think of you ;) )
 
@Rainbacon You're welcome. The canned comments makes it relatively easy to do :)
@Tinkeringbell :D
Oh, what a cute new avatar @ava <3
 
2:17 PM
About time she got an Avazulatar :p
 
This question, IMO, could be aske here or at TWP. Bullying is the main issue, not where it's happening. — Mister Positive 2 mins ago
#23351 Mister Positive (6164 rep) | Q: How to stop my boss's son physically bullying me (score: 0) | posted 4 hours ago by teslajin (550 rep) | edited 1 hours ago by baldPrussian (26189 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0
Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic"]
 
@ExtrovertedMainMan this will be interesting to read... I get the feeling some people in my current team think I came here straight out of undergrad sometimes :/
@M.A.R. but doesn't bat + pinata = fun? :P
 
2:48 PM
@EmC you're missing the Pinata for the tre . . . The candy
@user58 I'm in the 15 camp
If there's a bargain we can go lower
People either think or tell me they think I'm 50.
 
@M.A.R. mm, candy..
right after halloween is the best time to get it too ;)
 
IRL I sound like the grumpy professor who's always right
I'm not hatable though
 
but are you hattable
 
I mean, how can you hate this face?
(。◕‿‿◕。)
 
@EmC heh. This one got a snort out of me
 
2:52 PM
@scohe001 :D
 
@EmC they do say I'm a hattophile but I'm skeptical
 
.. wait is that actually a word because it's just turning up some random user from audio forums
 
@scohe001 Ooh, it's going to take me a while to get used to seeing Ava as not a german pub girl
 
She'll always be a german pub girl in our hearts<3
 
JAD
I'm lost in this conversation
 
3:05 PM
@JAD if you let me borrow an ink cartridge, I'll print you a map
 
JAD
:chucks cartidge at scohe:
 
Roll a dex check
 
JAD
Google rolled me a 4 :/
 
With your modifier, that's probs like a 6
 
JAD
I feel flattered. I was gonna add a -1
 
3:12 PM
You go to throw the cartridge, but as you pull back your arm, you worry that you may throw it too hard and injure scohe. You overcompensate (undercompensate?) and throw it way too short. @Rain, unaware this is happening, walks between the two of you while on his phone and steps on the cartridge, crushing it.
@JAD lol if you can type well enough to get all that SE rep, I've gotta assume you have some dexterity :p
 
JAD
3:30 PM
@scohe001 wouldn't that be int/wis?
 
Oh to come up with them, sure. But to write all that out? I wonder how many characters you've typed on SE over the years
 
JAD
Well, a bunch of the rep is from Codegolf, whose goal is to type as little as possible ;)
 
Heya!
Safari is not loading all css on wikipedia properly
And the site gets very ugly O-O
 
WEEKEND!!!
 
@Tinkeringbell What time is it ?
 
3:41 PM
5 hours to go. :(
 
Aww :(
 
JAD
@Tinkeringbell 18 more minutes till beer :D
 
Nice :D
I figured out where my code is going wrong... it's not an 18 minute fix so I'll just wait with the fixing till Monday ;)
 
@JAD I just had a sudden image of you sitting at your work desk with an unopened can/bottle of beer on top and then just when 5:00 hits, you crack it open and start chugging.
 
@El'endiaStarman you make it sound like Firday 5 o'clock beers aren't a thing at your company
 
3:45 PM
Come to think of it I don't think there's any alcohol in the office at all. (And I personally don't drink anyway. :) )
 
 
JAD
@El'endiaStarman We've had a time where it was allowed to get beer starting at 4pm on fridays
Back then, it was pretty much as you described
like half an hour of working with cans of beer at the desk
then snacks and such came out
Now beer is only allowed after 5pm :/
 
Oh dang, they actually let you drink at work? I feel like that may be illegal here in the US. I know at the very least it's against the employee CoC
Sounds like just another reason the Netherlands is better :(
 
not illegal AFAIK, just increasingly frowned upon
(or .. my employer would be in major trouble .. and they have a lot of lawyers :P)
 
JAD
well, the departments that handled customer contact weren't allowed to drink during work. Which is the biggest reason they moved it to 5pm
solidarity
and it wasn't like we were all shitfaced at work.
anyways, 5pm. time for beer
cya on monday :P
 
4:01 PM
happy weekend o/
 
Dinner first, snacks and drinks later tonight ;)
 
4:17 PM
Are you trying to do this only on a professional setting? If so, I think the links @MisterPositive provided should get you covered on a professional setting. Probably this question is a "duplicate" but from TWP not from IPS — Juliana Karasawa Souza 55 secs ago
#23353 Juliana Karasawa Souza (1327 rep) | Q: How can I appear experienced when I actually have the experience, but look younger than I am? (score: 3) | posted 3 hours ago by PA71 (116 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0
Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic(@Noon)"]
Do you drive / own a car? If you'd have gone with your own car, how much would you expect to spend on this ride? (On another note, how much does a pitcher of beer cost? That's probably how much you should be giving him in cash...) — Juliana Karasawa Souza 47 secs ago
#23334 Juliana Karasawa Souza (1327 rep) | Q: How to know how much money to give someone for a ride home? (score: 3) | posted 43 hours ago by bracketenergy (16 rep) | edited 35 hours ago by A J (6990 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0
Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic(@Noon)"]
 
@EmC haha you actually remembered the song lyrics ?!
I asked as I don't know if you people call the Friday work hours' ending, or Saturday midnight, or Saturday morning as the Weekend.
Guess she was too excited ;-)
 
@ankii I think you underestimate how many times I've listened to that soundtrack :P
 
LOL that's pretty stinkin cute
 
:D
 
4:27 PM
@EmC let me have a listen too, and I offer this post rock in exchange youtube.com/watch?v=oB2-vnxy8U8 "Mogwai - I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School" CC @avazula it being a post rock
now for the third time, What time does weekend start ?
 
@ankii in 5.5hrs :(
 
@ankii for me, it feels like it starts Friday after I finish work
 
@scohe001 That doesn't help unless you tell me what 24 hour format time you currently at.
@EmC ah that lightens my mood :)
 
Mine is almost over
 
@M.A.R. you live two days ahead of us ?
 
4:30 PM
Yes. I'm Elon Musk.
 
It's just like I suspected all along!!
 
@MCP_infiltrator It is an inference, of course, but it looks like your wife is both not good with numbers and financially uneducated, so if you go too much into detail or use just numbers for that, you're going to lose her pretty early into the conversation. I like this video for illustrating — Juliana Karasawa Souza 1 min ago
#12135 Juliana Karasawa Souza (1327 rep) | A: Wife does not work but wants “own” money/allowance (score: 24) | posted 590 days ago by (deleted user) | edited 590 days ago by (deleted user) | Toxicity 0.0 | Comment on inactive post | tps/fps: 0/0
 
wow idk the genre, but it was joyful @emc
 
@ankii oh it's from a musical, so it probably doesn't make as much sense out of context haha. there's a mish-mash of styles throughout the whole thing :D
 
yes I saw some related videos too
So are we hosting the How do I tell a 35 year old guy that I like him? I'm 16 [on hold] question ?
 
4:36 PM
@ankii ooh I dig this. Thanks for sharing
 
We cannot say that chatting is illegal, unlike other sites where obtaining illegal content is not allowed.
@scohe001 a friend whom I shared this song with replied that the whole album (something hawk something) is awesome
 
I'm listening to it now - nice background music for work :)
 
bad part is that, google won't autocomplete beyond "I Love You, I'm Going To"
Neither give it in search results, so I had to bookmark it
 
@ankii with a name like that.. I wonder if there's some filtering going on
 
I'm sure google autocomplete results get run through some kind of perspective algorithm like our toxicity for comments. I'd hope a name like that would trip it lol
 
4:43 PM
hmm apparently " .... .burn down your school" is seen in results
 
4:56 PM
@scohe001 drinking at work is somewhat common in start-ups. Before we got too big my company would do Friday afternoon beers
 
It is annoying that I wrote a full draft for the Safari - wikipedia problem, and now it is no longer reproducible. :(
at least it's fixed, But should I post a question ?
 
if it's already fixed, not sure it would be much use?
probably a caching problem anyways :P
 
Hey @AlwaysConfused it looks like [this answer] of yours is discussed on meta here... I'm curious to know if you have any thoughts on keeping/not keeping these kinds of images on the site as well? :)
Also... Grammarly now gives feedback on the 'tone' of your messages :D But not this one, I wonder why not this one?
 
@Tinkeringbell I saw that. But it was always getting my tone wrong >< So I deactivated it (the tone thing, not grammarly)
 
@Ælis I'm going to keep it for a while. See what it has to say, maybe the feedback will be useful :)
 
5:10 PM
@Tinkeringbell I hope so :) I was in a pretty bad mood when I deactivated it. It keeps saying that my texts were happy when they really weren't. It kind of making me want to punch the "smiley face" that keeped showing up ^^
 
@Ælis Ugh, yeah. That sounds like it would be getting your tone wrong then. Mine isn't doing much right now, I need to figure out what triggers it (it seems to be message length, perhaps?) It's also mostly showing a happy smiley, meaning 'friendly'. That's of course different from optimistic/happy/joyful
I did get one with a pair of trousers, that one was to say my message was really, really, really informal. XD
 
@Tinkeringbell Haha xD
 
@EmC I've posted it and will try to gather some more troubleshoot tricks ^^ question
then post a comment that wikipedia fixed it
or delete the question if it gets no answer
 
5:31 PM
Arg, a question at MSE is bugging me out. And I know I probably shouldn't answer, but I really want to ><
I need a little help over here on IPS meta. Anyone available?
 
@Ælis yeah I just saw that.. hmmmm
 
hmm I don't know what to say.
@Ælis What question?
 
@AGirlHasNoName This one (the OP probably needs better IPS skills ^^)
 
5:48 PM
ok, I tried replying to the meta answer
 
If you know that comments are second class citizens why bother arguing for it.
 
@EmC I just saw, thanks :)
 
I've had what I thought were perfectly valid comments removed before. It is the way of comments on all of SE
 
@AGirlHasNoName Well, knowing why your comment was deleted can be helpful is the aim is to improve for next time (so that you won't be unintentionally rude). So, I do believe this to be a valid MSE question. However, flagging for mod attention when they are already overwelled with works is... probably not the best course of action
(Note: I'm not saying that this is the reason why the OP posted their question, though)
 
yeah that question doesn't look like an attempt to learn.
But that is a valid point
 
6:15 PM
Well, I decided to answer that MSE question after all. Maybe I should better take cover now :p
 
Any thoughts on this question? It seems to me like it might be a bit off topic, but I'm a little surprised to see that it has 0 close votes, so maybe I'm missing something
 
@Rainbacon I'm kind of not reading things on IPS other that what is on the review queue lately, so don't be surprised if I didn't vote on something ^^ (I'll try to take it a look later now that you have pointed it out :) )
 
@Ælis ok. Just taking a break?
 
@Rainbacon No, I'm too busy with MSE >< (so IPS seems far less interesting right now, much less action to dive in :p )
 
6:30 PM
@Rainbacon the last comment there makes me think it might need clarified, since answering with that sort of "lifehack" would be off-topic
 
Yeah, it kind of feels like a what should (could?) I do
 
actually it reminds me a lot of interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/14507/3171 .. which I answered based on my last job, heh
 
@Rainbacon guess I've just always been trapped in the corporate life so I had no idea
 
Yeah, they are similar. The big difference is that the older one specifically asked about behaviors whereas this one is more broad
@scohe001 I mostly think of myself as being in the corporate life
In fact, I'm one of the 4 letter words of the corporate world
 
6:46 PM
@Rainbacon ...one of the 4 letter words? O_O
 
@scohe001 Consultant
 
Lol why is that 4 letters?
 
Are you not familiar with the term "4 letter word" referring to a swear word?
 
Oh I am, I just thought there was some corporate consultant joke I was missing. Probably my fault for thinking it couldn't be that simple lol
 
@Rainbacon true, that might be a good thing to edit or suggest editing for in the comments
 
6:52 PM
Ah, no. I was just saying that consultant is a bad word to corporate people :)
 
7:09 PM
So one of the JIRA admins in another branch of the company accidentally added a "T-shirt Size" dropdown field to our bugs
Needless to say, the devs on my team have been having some fun marking them as "XXL" or "Small" depending on how big they feel the bug is :p
 
@EmC Looks like @Ælis beat me to it
 
7:50 PM
I fully understand! I've just known people where that seemed to work. — Jon Custer 2 mins ago
#23353 Jon Custer (101 rep) | Q: How can I appear experienced when I actually have the experience, but look younger than I am? (score: 1) | posted 6 hours ago by PA71 (109 rep) | edited 43 minutes ago by Ælis (10134 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0
Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic"]
 
8:07 PM
I think I've discovered the worst build process ever
 
Ahh are you reading about childbirth?
 
@Rainbacon Don't say that, you are going to attract bad luck on yourself :p
 
The last step to merge a PR is to do the beta checks
So, your code gets deployed to the pre-prod environment and then you have 45 minutes to test it
The only problem is there is only 1 pre-prod environment that all 200 engineers have to share
So, for my current PR, I'm sitting at 5th in the queue to get the environment
I've been in the queue for over an hour
 
Well, that doesn't sound great indeed ^^
 
Nope
Fortunately for my current PR, I don't actually have to log into the environment to manually test. I just need the automated tests to run so I don't have to stay at work late and wait for my code to get deployed
 
8:30 PM
@scohe001 lol wow
@Rainbacon ugh that seems inefficient. there's no automated way to deploy it if the tests pass?
 
@EmC hey I'm just saying, 9 months to build and then 18 years to setup all the configs?! Not to mention, the docs online are terrible. Outdated and bad information everywhere. And then if there's a bug while you're setting up, you just have to hope your local devs have a plugin that'll fix it? That's not how you do user experience :/
 
we have similar frustrations on my team with testing resources, but at least get a checkbox for "auto-submit if everything passed" :/
@scohe001 hahah yeah if the documentation was better we probably wouldn't need Parenting :P
 
@EmC lol oh we'd probably still need it. Python docs are still great, but we still have an active tag on SO :p
 
@EmC This does deploy, but you have to wait for the other devs to deploy and manually test their changes
 
dang. what a pain
 
8:58 PM
@scohe001 Yeah and most of the time, the product you get don't really respect your specifications...
 
@Ælis LOL but if you can get the configs right, you get a fully functional AI that obeys your (almost) every whim. So I guess I can see why so many people try it...
 
lol I just came across this comment on a github feature request
> Hi! Why would you even want to do that? It sounds like a absolutely terrible idea to do that. Can you provide some use case?
 
@EmC suspend them :p
 
@ankii lol un(?)fortunately my powers are limited to only this site ;P
 
I came to announce my success in teaching Snow(white, male ~2yo) to not jump and to not hold my hands in his mouth.
 
9:11 PM
congrats :D
 
Instead he just sits with belly on the ground and paws around my legs
:)
 

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