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6:12 AM
@scohe001 I already have all wood-counter tops :p And what I am going to do well ... kids?
I mean 5 bedrooms isn't that much ... one for the couple, one for each kid (we plan on having two so that makes it 3), and then we'll both have an office which is great given that I work remotely fairly often and also because I craft a lot and therefore I need space xD
so yeah, they'll all be used eventually. Just not all of a sudden. Which is great because I'm not planning on having kids right away, just somewhere in the next half decade
 
6:43 AM
Also, morning everyone!
 
A J
Afternoon!
 
Right :p
 
JAD
7:32 AM
@avazula exactly. We each took a room for hobbies.
btw, what does the 7.00 % honoraires mean in that house-advert?
 
@JAD It means that 7% of that price goes to the agency that sells it
 
JAD
ah, so 93% goes to the seller, 7% to the realtor?
(I assumed that it would be another 7% on the price, which sounded odd to me)
 
@JAD yup
 
JAD
prices seem pretty reasonable over there btw :P
 
13 hours ago, by avazula
it's emtremely cheap
For the location and type of good*
 
7:48 AM
@avazula thats pretty big here :D
Also
THAT YARD
 
JAD
big city versus open countryside :P
 
@JourneymanGeek RIGHT?!
That's the most attractive part of it! (at least to me haha)
 
@avazula I do assume you will not leave it grassy and boring :D
 
@avazula Do you know why it's so cheap?
 
Hopefully ghosts :D
hides
 
7:50 AM
@JourneymanGeek hehe, you know me well! Crops and trees, here ya go!
@Ælis It's in a freaking teenie-tiny village a few kms away from mine (and you saw how village-y my village already is ... :p)
 
@ava Also, I'm sorry to hear you weren't well yesterday (meltdown). I hope you are doing better today?
 
@avazula ... that's a good thing no?
 
JAD
@avazula so then the question becomes, how close is the nearest supermarché?
 
@avazula Can you still talk about it being a "village" when it's so small? :p
 
@Ælis It was a shutdown fortunately, not a meltdown. I'm not feeling super good but I'm okay :)
 
JAD
7:52 AM
@Ælis at some points it's just a crossroads ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek to me, yes! To others ... they think it's hell :p
 
@JAD A few kms away (I currently live 300m away from a grocery store)
 
@avazula 0_0
 
@Ælis I'd say hameau but I have no idea how to translate that haha. kidding, it's still a village, it's not that small.
 
7:53 AM
That's not that far :D
Hamlet?
 
JAD
hamlet?
 
(not the prince of denmark)
 
@avazula I'm glad you are at least feelong better today <3
 
JAD
@JourneymanGeek who knows, maybe he was a small village in spirit?
 
@JourneymanGeek @JAD right, that's it!
 
7:54 AM
A hamlet is a small or very small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, a hamlet may be the size of a town, village or parish, or may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church or other place of worship (e.g. one road or a crossroads, with houses either side)....
 
JAD
gehucht in Dutch :P
 
"Alas Poor Yorick"
 
I was thinking Shakespeare... to each their references :p
Oops, nevermind, that's a hamlet:
Romazy (Breton: Rovazil) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. == Populations == Inhabitants of Romazy are called romaziens in French. == See also == Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department == References == INSEE Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association (in French) == External links == French Ministry of Culture list for Romazy (in French)...
"254 people"
 
@avazula Hence the "Not the Prince of Denmark"
 
And probably @avazula too
 
8:09 AM
@Belle Awww, poor baby who doesn't have its mom anymore :(
 
Morning :)
 
9:06 AM
@JourneymanGeek ha, I forgot he was from Denmark :p
@Belle babyyyy!
 
9:28 AM
Hey @JAD would you mind me asking for your input on some SQL good practice?
 
meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342283/… < Read that, please (if you have the spoons). Magisch really put into words what a few of us MSE mods have tried, but kinda failed at. Beware of the responses though.
 
@Tinkeringbell I just read it
 
:)
Also, I believe this hasn't been shared here yet: For those people that are angry and looking for something to do... twitter.com/gortok/status/1217437011876945920?s=20 < There's a fundraiser going on for Shog9. Throw your money at it, angrily ;)
 
JAD
9:45 AM
@avazula Sure
 
@JAD I have queries that select objects where the filter condition looks for a unique identifier. So basically I can only get either 0 or 1 results. I was wondering whether it'd be best to add 'LIMIT 1' to my select queries or to fetch only one result from the transaction cursor?
My guess is that they're equivalent methods but I was wondering whatcha think
 
Magisch's post is really good, the responses used up my spoons though
 
@Belle Yeah, just the post. Don't do the responses ;)
 
JAD
@avazula try both of them and compare execution plans
is the unique identifier a primary key (or unique index)? If so, limit 1 would be redundant information for the optimiser I suspect
 
@JAD Idk if I can get an execution plan from psycopg for both a query and cursor manipulations
@JAD It's a unique index
@JAD : "When "id" is a UNIQUE column (or an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY), then there
is only going to be a single row of output, regardless of whether or
not the LIMIT 1 is used. So the answer is the same either way.

As you conjecture, there is a small amount of overhead involved in
processing the "LIMIT 1" clause."
So I guess it's just overhead and I should stick to cur.fetchone() then
Thanks for the insight :)
 
10:01 AM
@Tinkeringbell I'm surprise at how easily people "here" do fundraising. Also, I haven't that much spoon, so I haven't really read Magish question, but it's basically saying: "be nice, show that we aren't toxic or we are doomed", right?
 
Not we are doomed, but "be nice or the other CMs are doomed".
 
But CMs being doomed do tend to lead to us being doomed too, right?
 
Here's Mith's answer to that question in case you'd like to upvote it
 
Well... yes.
@avazula I couldn't care less about upvotes at this point, the repcap has me in a deathchoke :P
 
@avazula I'm sure I would agree with Mith answer, but I do like to read first before upvoting :p I'll try to do that tonight, when I will be at home
 
10:05 AM
@Mithical I'm not saying this for the Internet points, I shared because I think it's important to counterbalance the most upvoted, all disagreeing options. There's always at least two versions of a story.
And of course I wasn't encouraging you to upvote without reading (@Ælis) :p
 
@Mithical If you are the one saying the most intelligent stuff, I do want your answer to be at the top of the pile, even if you gain no rep point with it
 
I think fundraising is a bit more common in the US (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), given that the social security and health care there are so much worse than over here.

I see quite the amount of tweets for basic things like paying rent, gas money, or food, for example.
 
@Tinkeringbell :'(
 
@Ælis If I'm the one saying the most intelligent stuff, we're already doomed. ;)
(I'm dealing with being stressed out and cold with humor bear with me)
 
Unemployement benefits seem to be pretty horrible too. If I'd lose my job, I can look forward to 5 months of 70% pay. Most in the US can't.
 
10:08 AM
@Mithical :( lots of love to you
 
@Mithical :/ Lots of love to you <3
 
^.^
 
Also, let's have a cat @chump !
 
Oh, this one is cute enough :D
 
10:13 AM
met this fella yesterday
he was skittish, though, so I didn't get too close
 
@Mithical Aww, so cute! *-*
Most people don't really care about donkey, but I really like them. It might be because most people don't really care about them
 
I love donkeys :D
 
10:39 AM
@avazula @Mithical I read your answer. I must say, I would have been less harsh with SE. But I read part of the other answers and I upvoted yours because you seem to be the calmest voice around here
 
As a teen, I was a cashier in a big supermarket from a chain. I've experienced customers shouting at me over stuff I had no influence over. Their anger was justified and there was nothing I could do, yet I had to be polite and apologize to these people. Those people were the worst aspect of my job. I will not become one of those people. I'm with @Mithical, I will not shout at 'SE', because the people reading it are most likely not responsible and probably want the situation changed too.
 
@Belle I completely agree with this... However. Isn't that super unfair that we evolve in a hierarchical system where the people who make others angry/disappointed/discriminated are completely separate from the people whom are yelled at?
 
@avazula Yeah, it almost seems like the more important their decisions are, the less they feel it if they make the wrong decision.
 
11:01 AM
@avazula it is very hard to throw tomatos at people in the ivory towers
 
about the post on Meta of Shadow apology this music popped into my mind
golden era :)
 
@Tink when crocheting in the round, do you prefer a continuous round or slip stitch joined individual rounds?
 
Let's play a game and have some positivity here! What are the things (big and small) that bring you joy in your everyday life?
Here are some examples :
- When it's snowing
- When there is a thunderstorm outside and I'm safely home inside
- when I get to help someone
 
Could some kind soul confirm this bug ?
 
- When someone specifically think about me and bring me some vegan food to eat
 
11:09 AM
@Ælis Watching my favourite streamer's face when she receives a donation. So precious.
 
- When my little sister show how carring she is, which makes me pround
 
@ankii Link?
@Ælis - When I'm feeling low and realize I'm not alone
 
@Ælis My dog not waking me up at 3 am
also that I have new toys coming it :D
 
@Ælis - when my puppy wakes up in the night at 4 am, contemplate something, look at me and go back to sleep
 
11:12 AM
@JourneymanGeek - When I receive a well choosen gift :D
 
@Ælis oh
I'm giving away one of my old monitors to a friend :D
 
- When my cousin's cat choose me to sit on
 
@JourneymanGeek why do people use multiple monitors? Is it an adult thing I am a bit young to understand?
 
When my cats sleep in a pile together
 
@ankii more of a geek thing
 
11:14 AM
- when two females give birth to puppies and my hall becomes a puppy playground
 
@ankii it's so I can play a grindy game on one screen and watch youtube on the other, instead of playing a more engaging game
 
- When my grandma surprise me by sending me a postal card
 
@Belle or chat and watch a ...
>_>
 
- When I'm sad and someone comfort me
 
(I have a 3 monitor setup in total)
 
11:15 AM
@Ælis that's too generic ;p
 
@Ælis Mountain bike trails! :D
 
@ankii Well then, when I'm sad and people here send me cute cat pictures :D
 
r/aww
 
Two of my cats are currently sleeping on top of each other. So precious <3
 
- music
 
11:16 AM
- When I discover an amazing book
 
@Mithical that's not a little thing
- when Cafe staff jumps directly to the billing of my espresso, without even asking what I want :)
 
@Ælis - When I realize the story of this amazing book continue in multiple other books :D
@ankii Big things work too ;)
 
-when a show I watch dosen't get cancelled after a cliffhanger
:D
(happens too much)
 
- When I love music so much that I'm singing and dansing in my apartment
@JourneymanGeek - When the new episode of my favorite show is finally here!
 
@Ælis I'm currently listening to the audiobook version of Royal Assassin read by Paul Boehmer and it's fantastic. Paul has everyone's voices down so well!
I tried reading the books in English, but I couldn't really get into them (I've read them all in Dutch). But the audiobook is amazing.
 
11:21 AM
@Belle I never tried to listen to an audio book, but if there is one book I would want to hear, it's absolutly on of Robin Hobb!
- When someone is feeling bad and I help them feel better
- When I feel like I matter
- When I feel like I'm helping making the world a better place
 
I'm trying to work from home, but there's a cat screaming at me XP
 
- When I'm eating (vegan) things I love
 
@Belle Depends on what I'm doing, but most of it is continuous.
- when I'm crocheting with really great yarn :)
 
@Tinkeringbell ^ good yarn really makes the difference
 
- When I'm receiving a very good answer to one of my IPS question
 
11:36 AM
Answers to my questions on IPS nearly always manage to beat my expectations. I love this site.
- When someone tells me they appreciate what I do :)
 
@Belle I don't know what you do, but I sure know I really like who you are :D <3
I know I probably shouldn't have accepted this answer but I'm very tired of people telling me to do sport/eat better/sleep better.
 
@Ælis Aw you make me blush <3
 
12:41 PM
@Belle It really does! It's such a pleasure to crochet with e.g. a really thick, soft yarn!
 
this is new :o
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A: Add a link to the timeline of a post

Yaakov EllisI am happy to announce that a new and improved post timeline is now available to all users. It can be accessed by clicking the clock icon underneath the voting and favorite buttons that are located to the left of a question or answer. Clicking on the button will bring you to the timeline p...

nice!
 
user15026
Oh that is very cool.
 
user15026
@Ælis I don't blame you, that does get exhausting.
 
@Ælis -when Fedora comes and asks for pets
@Ælis you wanna new package delivered at your work? :D
 
1:03 PM
@Ælis have you tried jackfruit yet? it goes so well in a stew <3
 
1:13 PM
meta.stackexchange.com/a/342314/369802 < for those who hadn't seen it yet, I'd like to shamelessly plug this here and hope it rises to the top ;)
 
@avazula I don't want food, but if you want to send me some cute stuff, I definitively won't be against it :D
 
@Ælis haha, noted :p
 
@Belle I have no idea what this is Oo I don't think I ever saw anything like this
@Tinkeringbell If you want you can shamelessly ping me tonight so that I take it a look. Or you can give me a TL;DR which will make me upvote without even reading the answer :p
 
@Ælis I mostly set out some expectations, but I think it's better if you read the whole thing because it's mostly a story about a playground ;)
 
JAD
@Tinkeringbell idk, I'm not really seeing it. But at the same time I can't seem to frame my feelings into your playground analogy
 
1:25 PM
Hmm.
Can you explain the 'frame feelings into' part? I'm not sure what I should imagine there...
 
JAD
I feel that there's a difference between the community-SE relationship and the kid-playground analogy, but I can't lay my finger on what exactly
 
@JAD It's not necessarily kid-playground ;)
 
Ooh, they added a timeline button under the vote buttons, either that or I randomly was given diamonds across the network
 
JAD
42 mins ago, by CaldeiraG
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A: Add a link to the timeline of a post

Yaakov EllisI am happy to announce that a new and improved post timeline is now available to all users. It can be accessed by clicking the clock icon underneath the voting and favorite buttons that are located to the left of a question or answer. Clicking on the button will bring you to the timeline p...

 
@Rainbacon It threw me, I was like "where's the flag icon? ...oh"
 
1:32 PM
Think of it as 'people that visit a playground' vs. 'people that provide a playground to visit' and 'people that build playground equipment'. The last one is SE. The first one is solely users. The middle one is a bit of SE (the playground) but also the people that are already on the playground showing how fun it is?

I'm making this waaay to complicated though ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell I really liked your playground analogy
 
JAD
But secretly the providers of the playground hate kids and just want to sell coffee to their parents. They're not interested in hearing what the kids have to say. They just want the kids to shut up and play while the parents (those that bring in the money) drink their coffee
 
@JAD so they put razor blades in the sand to be at peace? :p
(jk)
 
JAD
nah, they put a bit of booze in the soda pop
 
@JAD Boozy soda sounds kinda nice right now
Though I should probably be concerned that I just said that before 9am
 
1:42 PM
@Rainbacon Here's to you having a great day today! You're gonna kill it!
 
@avazula Well, with any luck I won't have to comb through 86k line log files today
 
Fingers crossed D:
 
...don't kill your clients, though, leads to an awful lot of paperwork
 
@Mithical Yeah, considering that my client provides financial services to millions of people, if I killed it there would be problems
 
@JAD XD Well, providing a good playground will get the kids out of your hair and the parents to drink their coffee in peace ;) Just like any analogy, it can go any way you want :P
I do like the one about booze and soda. I should've gone for booze and soda ;)
 
1:46 PM
@Tinkeringbell Just keep that one in your back pocket for next time
 
I will ;)
 
who actually uses back pockets
if I kept anything in there I'd sit on it all the time
 
I certainly don't keep anything in my back pocket
My dad has always kept his wallet in his back pocket and I don't understand how it's not incredibly uncomfortable to sit down
 
They're nice to put your hands in if you don't know where to put them... but that's about it.
 
I feel weird putting my hands in my back pocket
Because then it just looks like I'm grabbing my rear end
 
1:52 PM
I feel like they're kinda just there to make it look less like a rear end with cloth stretched across.
 
Clearly we should all just be wearing dresses, but the kind with pockets
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that would be the obvious solution
 
I'm not sure if I'd look good in a dress, but then again I don't look particularly good in any outfit
 
@Rainbacon pity, I saw this absolutely gorgeous dress
 
1:56 PM
Alas, I'm single and rather attached to my T shirts and shorts :D
 
don't knock it till you've tried it
 
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I read in my physics book that when we use a spoon and vibrate a glass, the pitch should be according to the air column inside. So, less filled the glass, longer the air column and lesser the frequency according to frequency = 1/4*( v/l) formula. But when I tried to do it practically I found the glass which has the least amount of water sounds shriller meaning high frequency. Why so? Am I doing something wrong in my exp? Here is a link where this person does the same experiment but she does not explain the physics
 
@RitwikBhattacharyya uhm
You should ask your teacher
 
Also... this is the chat for Interpersonal Skills, not Physics. I'm afraid you may have ended up in the wrong place :|
 
I am pass out from school. Learning science after my retirement
 
1:57 PM
@Mithical I can safely say that dresses aren't that fantastic :P
 
ok sorry I saw science
 
@JourneymanGeek I like T-Shirts and shorts, my wife doesn't like them on me as much
 
@RitwikBhattacharyya Science, in this room? Where? ;)
 
@Rainbacon My parents complain. :D
 
@Tinkeringbell Lies!
 
1:59 PM
But but
THERE ARE SO MANY COOL T SHIRTS!
 
@brug :P
 
@JourneymanGeek clearly you have to have the upper part of the dress with the t-shirt design on it
 
@Mithical but pockets :D
 
cargo dress
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JAD
lolwhat
 
2:00 PM
though I do wear the indian equivilent of a kilt or a half toga
 
@Mithical Make that happen. You will make a fortune.
Or go broke
one or the other
 
with a T shirt
The dhoti, also known as panche, vesti, dhuti, mardani, chaadra, dhotar, panchey, is a traditional men's garment worn in the Indian subcontinent. It is a rectangular piece of unstitched cloth, usually around 4.5 metres (15 ft) long, wrapped around the waist and the legs and knotted at the waist. == Etymology == The word dhoti is derived from dhauti (Sanskrit: धौती), meaning to "cleanse or wash". In the context of clothing, it simply refers to the cleansed garment which was worn as part of everyday attire The dhoti evolved from the ancient antriya which was passed through the legs, tucked at the...
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"It has pockets, How many? ALL OF THEM"
 
@brug I'm pretty sure I saw them somewhere, online
 
@RitwikBhattacharyya Hi! I think most of us in this room are computer engineers. At least, I don't know the answer to your question.
 
ohh, just when I thought I was getting in on the bottom of a super lucrative marketing venture
 
Other than me. I'm a dog
 
although those pockets are a bit awkwardly placed for being useful
 
Why does capitalism make my every waking moment revolve around financial security
 
@Mithical ohh especially the ones half on - half under the boobs
 
2:04 PM
@brug It already exists!
 
@brug .... that reminds of April O'neal's jumpsuit
 
Oh... I should pay more attention ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek If you don't know what you are doing then we are all lost!
@Tinkeringbell :P
@JourneymanGeek YES!
But not yellow
 
@Rainbacon I have female friends who made their partner change their entire wardrobe. I mean, I don't necessarily think that Mr Ava's clothes suit him beautifully, but that seems like it's none of their business ...
 
2:05 PM
but it takes a brave lady to pull off that yellow.
 
Indeed.
 
@brug But yellow is pride color :o
 
@avazula No, the one Mith linked isn't yellow.
 
At least that's what I've been told. Shoot, I should have realized way sooner I wasn't straight, all I cared for as a kid was yellow and crossdressing!
 
illustration for amusement purposes
 
2:08 PM
hahaha
 
@brug Now I'm in love. Darn it!
 
@avazula I used to literally think to myself, in the explicit words "I wish I was a girl" and still managed to not realize.
Why did that have to be the last thing that was said... ><
I hate when I kill chat
 
@avazula "Sorry Mr. Ava, I like April O'Neil better"
 
@brug Don't kill chats! (that means cats in French :p)
@Mithical Haha. Does that work? :p
 
@Mithical Why not both?!
@chumpbot meow
 
2:16 PM
@brug I'd love that :o
 
@chumpbot pfew, they're alive
I'm keeping an eye on you @brug!
 
@avazula Mrs Bacon always makes me change out of shorts if we're leaving the apartment. She's under the impression that it's poor manners to leave the house dressed like you're going to the gym
 
@Rainbacon darn, I wish I could say that to Mr Ava ... xD
 
@avazula I thought the French word for cat was chapeau (google just informed me that it actually means hat?)
Which I guess makes sense
I know it from a rhyme that Mrs Bacon has which goes:
Cat. Hat
In French that's chapeau
In Spanish it's a gato in a sombrero!
 
JAD
2:20 PM
it's "chat"
 
haha
 
Although now i'm wondering if I've hear the rhyme wrong and the second line is supposed to be "In French chat chapeau"
Which might make more sense since then every line would mention both cat and hat
 
> "Cat, hat. In French chat chapeau. In Spanish el gato in a sombrero."
So yeah @Rain you misheard two lines :D
 
Also a gatto in a capello!
 
Gato com um gorro? Gato dentro de um gorro? :p
 
2:33 PM
@CaldeiraG Unfortunately, the only Portuguese I speak are the few Spanish words I know (it's like 10 of them) which also happen to be Portuguese words with the same meaning
 
@Rainbacon Yep :p I get it
 
uh oh, I posted a comment on MSE, what have I done
 
YOU FOOL, YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL!!!!!
 
@Rainbacon That's a horrible comment :P
Have an upvote ;)
 
I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why my TypeScript wasn't compiling...
Turns out my IntelliSense was set to a newer version than my actual compiler and I was using a language feature from the newer version....
 
2:44 PM
@Rainbacon link or it didn't happen
 
I understood... all of that :D
 
@avazula Here
 
@Rainbacon this world is ... DOOMED!
 
3:05 PM
@Magisch Yeah, but that's not news to me. I live in a country where our leader communicates primarily through tweets that are filled with poor grammar and nonsense words
 
@Rainbacon I was making a video game reference, but sure
 
Ah, the reference must have missed me
 
t'was a path of exile reference. The new end boss has quite iconic voice lines with his intonation
 
Ah, I never played that one. Though several people have told me about it
 
3:46 PM
My office is so empty today. The only other person here is the office manager, and she sits in a different room, so I'm basically alone. It's kind of nice. I'm able to work in whatever way is most comfortable for me, which today has involved being up and pacing around the room
 
@avazula oh dang, y'all are planning ahead. We better be promised cute little-ava pics!
 
4:02 PM
whew, finally caught up on backlog! chatty morning :)
also, now I wish I had worn a dress to work today
 
@EmC at least you're addressing the issue :p
 
ha, ha
I did finally clear off my sewing table last weekend.. I could (try to) make cargo dress happen ;)
 
@scohe001 xD
 
@EmC If you make two, I'll buy one off of you.
 
@EmC ooh, then you could make it with pockets in more well-thought places
 
4:05 PM
:D
all the pockets
 
Maybe we could all help and sew different parts at the same time? Isn't that how multi-threading works?
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Or make it cursed. Make all of the pockets as poorly placed as possible
@scohe001 Underrated pun of the year
 
Lol you mean "underrated pun of the last 16 days?" :p
 
@scohe001 Only if you want to interpret my statement literally.
 
No, I think she means that it will continue to be underrated for the next 340 days
 
4:33 PM
@flagshumbug: it certainly depends on people and location but usually 5 minutes late is acceptable. For example, in a big city, there is always a bit of uncertainty about traffic, so you can easily be 5 minutes late or 5 minutes in advance. I would say that 30 minutes late is bad planning or unforeseen event, but your mileage may vary. When I was living in Senegal, about 10 years ago, it was common for people to be 2 hours late at a meeting and no one would complain. — Taladris 2 mins ago
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Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]
 
4:47 PM
QOTD: When you think, do your thoughts always take the form of words that you hear in your head in your native language, or do you think in more than one language, or in ways that are unrelated to language at all?
 
I find it productive to give my thoughts words as it causes me to slow down and think through things a little better and the act of putting things into language causes another level of self-examination. I'll usually do that when I'm thinking through emotions or actions I'm trying to understand or when making an important decision. But if I don't take the time to do that, it's mostly bits of images and feelings I guess? Idk how to explain it
 
@Rainbacon Nope. If it's words it can be either Dutch or English depending on what I am/have been doing or am thinking about, also, sometimes my thoughts are more like daydreams, where I can imagine what a finished crochet project looks like for example, or when I'm thinking about what to expect.
Giving thoughts words does slow then down, like scohe says. Writing those words down does so even more, and in some cases that helps me focus.
 
5:09 PM
@Rainbacon I thought it was Quote Of The Day
 
5:53 PM
@Rainbacon For me, thinking tends to heavily involve my subconscious. It's as if I'm standing in the middle of, let's say, a large library. I want to generate thoughts/ideas/words/whatever, so I "say" something about the topic. My subconscious goes and looks through books at hyper speed, and eventually gives me a sheet of paper with a sort of summary or fully formed thoughts or whatever.
I read the paper and I decide whether it works well enough for my purposes, then I either act on it IRL or direct my subconscious to try again and/or refine the search.
If anyone's going "hey, that sounds like something I've seen/heard before", then that was probably this Veritasium video. :)
 
Interesting, all of you sound like you think more the way I do. I was talking about this with my wife, and she was having a hard time getting her mind wrapped around the idea of me thinking in anything other than sentences
 
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@Rainbacon I think in sentences mostly, but it gets more visual and pictures and such and just pure feeling the closer it pokes to my neuroatypical bits.
 
@Ash Interesting, I don't know that I've ever noticed a pattern in when my thoughts are words vs pictures vs videos. Other than the one established pattern of my emotions being music
 
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@Rainbacon For me, it goes words -> pictures -> pure emotion -> static (think like a TV on the wrong channel) -> meltdown, generally.
 
6:09 PM
When I'm not generating ideas to put into words, I "think" in terms of a mental landscape of sorts. Objects, figures, shapes, positions, motion, etc.
Very interestingly, few or no colors. It's not grayscale though; it's just that I don't naturally visualize colors.
 
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I've never paid attention to whether or not I have colours.
 
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I find if I try to think about the content of the visual thoughts, they slide away.
 
6:22 PM
I do have a coworker that's talked about his thoughts being formed as sentences, and I'm fairly sure he's neurodiverse as well. Apparently makes it easy for him to write stuff because his thoughts basically are "written", I guess.
 
@El'endiaStarman Interesting. I was never able to see words in my mind (only hear them) which makes it extra difficult if I want to spell them or do calculations in my head (because there is too much data to remember at once, so the "calculation fails" if I don't have a piece of paper to write down stuff as I go).
Also, when I'm too tired, my dreams don't have "pictures". It always feels like I'm dreaming with my eyes closed (I often try to open them in order to see the pictures but it doesn't work very well)
@Rainbacon You know when you "a word on the tip of the tongue"? You can't find the word but the feeling of it is still here. Well, most of the time I think by "talking to myself in my head" (we are usually two or three responding to each other) but I also have those times where I won't formulate words and only let their feelings go through me. It's way quicker than formulating them, but you also do tend to forget those though quicker than the formulated one.
 
@Rainbacon I do know my brother thinks in pictures to such an extend that if anything in real life doesn't match a picture he created in his head, there's usually a bit of friction/tension/stress involved in setting things right...
 
@Rainbacon hmm .. I guess I think more in concepts, if that makes sense? like, images and phrases maybe. Not really sentences (unless I'm actually trying to write it down, but that's its own process), sometimes an inner monologue though
@Ælis yes, that!!
writing stuff down means taking those feelings and distilling them into the right words
 
6:38 PM
Long time no see @EmC ?
 
@Tinkeringbell I'm reading your MSE answer. First you talk about red and blue seesaws and then you talk about the red and green. Is that voluntary? Because it does look like a minor mistake (which is upsetting really. If they ask me between red and blue seesaws why would they finally choose to paint them green!)
 
@ankii o/ I'm still around :) been busy at work, and sick earlier this week though.
 
@Ælis Hahaha Yeah, well, a seesaw can have lots of colours ;)
 
Also @Tink, I really like your conclusion. I would have upvote more than once
 
I think I was indeed not paying much attention to detail when writing that ;)
Maybe I'll edit, but for now the post is calm and I don't actually want to bump it.
 
6:44 PM
Fair enough :)
Also, I just realize I have 7770 rep on MSE! :D @Rainbacon
 
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@Ælis Oh, that's an excellent number.
 
Yep, a magical and powerful one :D
 
@Ælis Nice!
 
I just food this cat picture and I find this kitty so beautiful I have to share it with you! *-*
 
@Tinkeringbell I do that sometimes, though not often
 
6:51 PM
 
@EmC I think that makes sense
I feel like I've been super unproductive today because it's just me and the office manager in the office, and every time I get up to grab coffee/water we end up having a 15 minute conversation
 
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@Ælis Oh i love those colours.
 
@Ash Yeah, me too! I do tend to like "dark" cat better than the others :D
 
@Ælis so pretty :D
 
@Rainbacon You can see that as you building a better relationship with our coworker. It's like team building and everyone knows that team building is valuable work too! :p
 
6:55 PM
That's true, but it means less code. I'm really enjoying our conversations though. She has a degree in social work, so we've been talking a lot about autism
 
@Rainbacon :O That's so cool!
 
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@Rainbacon oh, that's really neat.
 
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