The Awkward Silence

4:30 AM

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Q: How to get someone to speak less cryptically (with less idioms)?

(For a bit of a backstory, this question is related to this one here) I have a friend called Bob. He's part of a group of friends I meet with regularly. Bob has a very direct, yet cryptic communication style. I find this is rare because usually people who are poor at communicating are not direct...

Belle

8:17 AM

I just earned the yearling badge on a couple sites. Free hats!

Morning by the way :)

Journeyman Geek

8:29 AM

hi

A J

Afternoon!

Ælis

8:50 AM

Hello!

Oh, I can't ping @Rainbacon because he hasn't been here for too long :'(

Anyway, I have 7,707 rep on MSE and I find this number beautiful!

@EmC Too bad you aren't on the same timezone as me, though

Also, tomorow is a day off! \o/

chumpbot

9:06 AM

Have you tried asking them to not use idioms? Maybe point out that saying " holding your feet to the fire" take much more time than just "pushing/pressuring you"? — SZCZERZO KŁY 50 secs ago

#23836 SZCZERZO KŁY (2558 rep) | Q: How to get someone to speak less cryptically (with less idioms)? (score: 1) | posted 4 hours ago by hectorpepper (455 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0

Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic"]

A J

9:37 AM

@Ælis Oh, cool! I have 101 on Law. That number is cool too. :P

Ælis

@AJ 101 is a bit too easy to get, IMO x) I have it on several site too :p

A J

@Ælis I have 143 on English Language Learners. I don't have to tell you about this number though. :P

Belle

I have 345 on two sites :)

A J

Nice

Reps on my top sites are divisible by one common number. ;P

Jokes aside

Can you identify the pattern here

A J

117 1 1 7

management professionalism technology

Ælis

@AJ Oh, that's a nice one!

A J

9:53 AM

My badge count on Movies & TV used to be gold + silver = bronze

Ælis

That's impressive, but I still like your 117 better

Mithical

Was hoping to reach 100k on January 1st but that's looking rather unlikely... oh well

A J

12:01 PM

May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements and a lot of new inspirations on your life. Wishing you a year fully loaded with happiness.

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Mithical

...that timing wasn't disguised at all. ;)

Kidding. Happy Gregorian New Year!

Belle

May the next year be better than the last!

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Belle

12:16 PM

@Mithical Fun fact: it's already been 2020 for over 2 hours in part of the world. There's a UTC+14 time zone.

Mithical

Christmas Island FTW

Belle

Kiritimati. I think Christmas Island is near Australia isn't it?

Mithical

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Kiritimati (Christmas Island)
Atoll
Photograph from the International Space Station
Photograph from the International Space Station
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) is located in KiribatiKiritimati (Christmas Island)Kiritimati (Christmas Island)
Location in Kiribati
Coordinates: 01°52′N 157°24′WCoordinates: 01°52′N 157°24′W
Country Kiribati
Island group Line Islands
Area
• Total 388.39 km2 (149.96 sq mi)
Population (2015 Census)
• Total 6,447
• Density 17/km2 (43/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+14
Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is p…

Belle

Oh I got my Christmas Islands confused :O I was thinking about the one west of Australia

TIL Kiritimati is also Christmas Island

A J

@Mithical lol

Ælis

12:22 PM

Happy new year!

Belle

TI also L Kiritimati is pronounced /kəˈrɪsməs/

Ælis

@chump do you have a cat for us?

chumpbot

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Belle

That one is super cute! Both are actually

Ælis

@chumpbot Ahah, there you go, have a star :p

Belle

12:23 PM

I'm a sucker for cats but kittens in particular

Ælis

@Belle I believe a lot of people in this room are too :p

Belle

One of my colleagues hates cats. I don't understand how! I think they are adorable and cute, even while they are plotting our downfall.

Ælis

This makes me sad for your coworker. I understand that you could hate moskitos or wasps, but cats???

Mithical

@AJ I mean it's hardly a coincidence that you posted it as soon as it was possible for you to earn the hat ;)

Belle

Does chumpbot have the hat now?

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Fairly stolen from Reddit. Look at those eyes!

Ælis

12:30 PM

@Belle Not yet, but soon (the hats aren't instently awarded)

A J

@Mithical I already got it.

Ælis

So, I'm having some issue automating some mobile tests. I found a question from someone with the same issue and the only answer was mostly "you are doomed, you should do that manually instead" ><

(but I'm trying to automate tests, so saying "just keep doing them manually" isn't an option)

Belle

1:03 PM

Manually running test every day is also a type of automation, I guess? I hope you can figure it out.

Ælis

@Belle I probably wasn't clear, but what they were saying was that "automating mobile test is useless". They were saying that, in the case of mobile tests, you should do everything manualy without automating anything (because it's too complicated)

chumpbot

I don't agree with some parts of this answer. First, I find the approach of learning a couple of lines to say rather unusual. Maybe it would be better if you focused on explaining what you want to get across and then include 1-2 examples as you did later. Then, the positivity thing is definately not universal. This might be correct in certain countries or if you are in a business context, but none such thing was given by the OP. This is about two friends, be direct man. If you talk with them like you would at a job interview, that's way worse — Raditz_35 41 secs ago

#23838 Raditz_35 (268 rep) | A: How to get someone to speak less cryptically (with less idioms)? (score: 0) | posted 21 minutes ago by theSameTime (326 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0

Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]

Ælis

@chumpbot tp

chumpbot

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Mithical

@chumpbot toilet paper

Belle

1:12 PM

@Ælis What?! That's nonsense. Automated mobile testing is a blessing. My tests actually caught a lot of little bugs the next day that I would've missed for a week or longer because it's impossible to manually test a decent sized application on multiple devices every day.

Ælis

@Belle I don't know for mobile testing, but automated web tests are definitively a blessing indeed. And I really don't understand why mobile testing should be any different (but maybe I missunderstand the answer?). In any case, I will definitively keep trying to automatise my tests

Belle

What kind of application are you testing? We used Selenium and Google Chrome. Chrome can simulate various devices.

Ælis

@Belle A custom mobile app developped with ReactNative. I'm (trying) to test it using my phone (android) + appium + selenium (+java). But I don't know anything about mobile testing, and I'm having a hard time figuring things out

Belle

Ah, I know very little about android development :\ can't help you there, sorry. I've written automated tests for native iOS apps before with XCTest and 'generic' mobile tests with Selenium and Google Chrome for a webapp.

Ælis

I miss how easy I find to test web app, now that I have a lot of knowledge about it. I hope I will find testing mobile app as easy very soon. I don't like being stuck and not understanding what I'm doing wrong

scohe001

1:36 PM

@Belle chumpbot has been hatted, thanks for reminding me :D

Ælis

Let's have a little cat @chump

chumpbot

Ælis

@chumpbot Nice glasses :p

scohe001

Also I appreciate all of the happy wishes for next year from y'all, but you're thinking too small here. With that in mind, I want to wish you all the most exciting and fulfilling next decade of your lives on this amazing planet :D

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Belle

@chumpbot You remind me of that small muppet now

Mithical

1:39 PM

Oscar?

Belle

ankii

2:11 PM

Happy New year everyone! Wish this year brings great food, great coffee, great health for us.

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Who doesn't like good food, good coffee, good health.

Ælis

2:44 PM

I though my work day was over. Then I realize that I stopped 45 minutes earlier than usual (instead of 15 minutes later like I though). Oups ^^ (it doesn't matter, I'll do my hours later this week)

avazula

5:27 PM

I'm making pizzas for new years eve with my friends. Happy new year pizza friends! You're amazing and I love you.

Mithical

Save me some!

ankii

Yay pizzaz

You're breathtaking

Mithical

thanks keanu

ankii

;p

any user script experts here?

Mithical

No, but I know a few. Why?

ankii

5:30 PM

apple.stackexchange.com/questions/378644/… this parent needs to block youtube kids' autoplay

I've asked Glorfindel though

Mithical

Glorf or Art

Tinkeringbell

Heya! A bit early but family night so: Happy New Year everyone!

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brug

Happy New Year!

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chumpbot

9:29 PM

"i don't have kids but let me tell you what you're doing wrong" lmao — SuperStew 26 secs ago

Mithical

@chumpbot pewpewpew

chumpbot

Invalid feedback type. Valid feedback types are tp, fp, rude, and wrongo

Mithical

@chumpbot tp

chumpbot

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scohe001

@Mithical only two pew's on the first one. It's string matching, not regex :(

Mithical

9:38 PM

welp

brug

10:30 PM

@chumpbot pewpew

chumpbot

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