The Awkward Silence

12:43 AM

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So I have this friend at school that has been real touchy towards me she likes hugging me she touches me on the face alot and just recently she started petting me on the head which made me extremely uncomfortable (٥↼_↼) I'm not sure if she's like that to all her friends but I haven't seen her do ...

Alex

12:55 AM

@scohe001 @M.A.R. is responsible for everything around here.

Journeyman Geek

1:42 AM

s/responsible/to blame

scohe001

1:59 AM

@Alex just around here?

Alex

@scohe001 You're right; I should't be imposing any spatial limitations on M.A.R.

scohe001

You make it sound like temporal limitations are gonna fly

This is the M.A.R. we're talking about

Alex

2:41 AM

Correct again. M.A.R. is truly unlimited.

Extroverted Main Man

3:22 AM

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Q: Friends using me to do their work

I am a very smart person, typicly people ask me to help them figure out a problem but I have one person who sits next to me in science and never takes notes or listens to the teacher so she always asks me “so tell me what to write down” or “ could you tell me what the teacher said?” Sometimes she...

friends

Extroverted Main Man

3:42 AM

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Q: How to negotiate about drying clothes with someone from a culture who isn't used to it?

I live in a shared house. Recently someone someone from India moved in. Though we have an electric clothes dryer, some of my clothes are not suitable to put inside. For example a few dress pants, swimsuit, workout clothes (e.g. Under Armor), thermal underwear, should not go inside a clothes dryer...

united-states india roommates clothing

ankii

6:16 AM

There is also Parenting which has questions and answers on this topic as well. You could search it for information. — Erik 44 mins ago

Does parenting work the other way round? Like being-a-child(childing or say kidding )?

Also why suggest alternatives if the question is just should-I removal away from being on-topic?

@avazula are you active? Chat shows Seen 2s ago

avazula

@ankii what's up?

ankii

All good :) . . . Just this comment above.

I had seen discussions about it being rude to redirect users to other sites if the question can be taken in with some efforts and there's overlap in the scope of two sites.

avazula

6:32 AM

Let me check it

ankii

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A: For questions which might belong on maths, stats, etc, is is better to vote to close or flag for migration?

First off, don't vote to close unless the question is actually off-topic. There tends to be a fair bit of overlap between various Stack Exchange sites, particularly when you're writing code in the domain of statistics, mathematics, computational science, computer science, etc. - but that doesn't ...

Maybe Erik is suggesting to just read the other site and not saying that it is off-topic here and should be gone.

avazula

@ankii I don't know, I'm not familiar with Parenting.SE enough

@ankii Well, they shouldn't suggest it in this case, if removing "should I" would be enough to make it on topic (haven't read the question yet). Advice on when to suggestion migration can be found here:

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Q: Referring Askers to other SE sites?

Are there any rules on referring Askers to other SE sites where their question might be equally or more appropriate? I've done so in comments several times. Sometimes the comment stays, other times not. I'd like to understand the rules on this.

support

Ælis

8:37 AM

→ 6 messages moved to Trash

Ælis

8:54 AM

If I start a chatroom with a user, do they automatically get pinged?

Journeyman Geek

can't remember and am willing to try it for science

Ælis

Well, I pinged the user somewhere else anyway. But feel free to create a chatroom with me and ask me if I got pinged (but maybe the results will be different since you are a mod?)

Journeyman Geek

possibly

and I'm currently chatting in a very high latency way ;p

Mithrandir

9:10 AM

@Ælis yes

Ælis

Well then, I just pinged someone twice ^^ Thanks for the answer :)

Journeyman Geek

^ in that case, what they said. No the one above that.

XD

M.A.R.

9:41 AM

@Alex Flags messages as "I'm definitely positive there's some treachery behind the compliments

. . . Are you looking for sacrifices to the God of volcano?

@JourneymanGeek are fast enough?

@JourneymanGeek these messages

@JourneymanGeek if

@JourneymanGeek tell me

@JourneymanGeek can you

Journeyman Geek

I can literally see the lines move

half line at a time

M.A.R.

Oh, like a 90's movie credits

Journeyman Geek

yes

Ælis

10:19 AM

When you spend two hours trying to work around a bug and, at the end, you realize you just have to change one character in your config file to make everthing work properly...

CaldeiraG

Mornin o/

Ælis

@CaldeiraG Morning :)

CaldeiraG

@Ælis LOL what a pain

Ælis

When, I hope I'm right and that this character switching will solve everything. I'm currently testing my solution and I would really hate to have to spend another two hours on this stupid bug (the task I'm currently doing was suppose to be quick and easy!)

Yay, it worked! \o/

CaldeiraG

10:38 AM

\o/

A J

@Ælis Are you a QA or developer?

Ælis

@AJ QA but, since I'm automating tests, I still develop stuff

A J

ohh

Extroverted Main Man

11:46 AM

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Q: How to greet Teachers and Staffs?

I am in final year of my Engineering but still find greeting my teachers difficult. It happens whenever I am on my way to college mostly( We have to walk from Hostel to Campus which takes around 15 minutes). The situation is teacher will be coming and I will be on same path. I always notice peop...

greetings verbal-communication

Rainbacon

12:57 PM

ugh, client has us (team of 5) crammed into a conference room that would be uncomfortable with 4

avazula

1:07 PM

:(

Rainbacon

This project I'm on kind of sucks because we are expected to work from the client's office, but they don't have available desks for us, so they reserve conference rooms for us. We had one room that we had reserved through the end of the year, but then they cancelled that and gave it to a different consulting team. So now we spin the wheel of rooms every day and hope it comes up with one big enough for the team

avazula

this ain't nice

Rainbacon

1:44 PM

Nope. But the most annoying thing is that the rooms we are in this week are not on the same floor as the good coffee machine

avazula

you think it couldn't get worse... and then ...

Rainbacon

3:56 PM

@scohe001 That looks like it might be one of my regexes? But I thought I named all mine to @ ping me

Em C

is anyone here familiar with Psychology & Neuroscience? I wonder if it would be appropriate to refer the OP of this question there, after reading the answer / comments so far..

scohe001

@Rainbacon it does look similar to your writing style. Looks like you might've forgotten to name this one then so it took the name of the regex

Rainbacon

4:36 PM

@scohe001 Hmm, when I have a minute I'll delete it and remake it with a proper name

Rainbacon

4:48 PM

Done

@EmC I'm not sure, and their help center isn't super clear as to what is on topic. You might want to try pinging one of their mods to ask for clarification

Em C

5:13 PM

@Rainbacon eh, since it seems to be on-topic here, I decided to just suggest that stack as a place to search

Rainbacon

That probably works as well

I just had 2 coworkers tell me they'd never heard of Isaac Asimov, and I'm not sure how to feel about having them on my team anymore.

Em C

:o how do they not know who that is??

more importantly, did you give them book recommendations

Rainbacon

5:28 PM

I did recommend him as an author, though I didn't give specific recommendations as I haven't actually read enough of his work to do so

My wife also hadn't heard of him the first time I mentioned the name

Em C

I exhausted my local library's collection of his books as a kid :P it's been a while since I revisited them though

I run across references to this one every so often - if you haven't read The Last Question, it's fairly short and freely available :D templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/…

Rainbacon

5:44 PM

Ooh, that might have to consume my commute home

El'endia Starman

6:09 PM

The Last Question is probably my favorite Asimov work (out of what little I've read).

scohe001

6:55 PM

@EmC ooh I really like this one. Thanks for sharing!

ankii

9:53 PM

@EmC If the proposal is accepted.. (I cannot really say support seeing the poor voting. ), can some SE employee get the text edited? I don't know how many of them visit IPS meta

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Q: Improving "Other" Flag text for uniformity in close vote comments

For questions like this (not calling out, it's just recent and an apt example) . . How can I read faster? . . and comments like these . . I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this question is not related to interpersonal skills. . . which: vary user-to-user and are n...