The Awkward Silence

This is the main chatroom for interpersonal.stackexchange.com. Each site will have its own main chatroom, and perhaps a few spin-offs (like comments moved to chat).

It's often used to talk about the site and the things happening there, or general chitchat :)

Vivek

well o well

lemme see to it

oh ok, got it...

Tinkeringbell

Great! Welcome to chat :)

Vivek

6:45 AM

:')

how's everyone holding up in their respective places, hope everything is fine?

avazula

I mean, it's a indoors life right now, but I'm glad we're all safe :) how is it for you?

Vivek

well, it's same, indoor life. But, the most affected were those who were really roaming kind of persons, and I'm not one of them... i.e., i don't roam much... but i had tons of leftover work, which I'm finishing nowadays

avazula

I'm used to everyday walks ... I'd be lying if I said I don't miss it :p

Tinkeringbell

I'm kinda loving this. Except for some struggles with my parents, I could get used to this if I had my own place, I think :)

(we're still allowed outside for those walks)

Vivek

well, to be honest, certain days, me and my friend would head up to the hill station nearby, enjoy noodles and fast food, return early by night,... so once this is over, i am really looking ahead to it...

aah, close to hills, dusk time... tea, cool wind... really missing,

avazula

6:55 AM

I'm a bit scared because I just bought a house and am supposed to move by the end of May ... The loan is secured but I didn't get any news from the notary for a while.

@Vivek Yeah ... I miss that too :)

Morning! o/

Hey!

TGIF btw :P

Friday.... the day I have to get up early. :(

Tinkeringbell

@avazula It took a while for me too... I secured the loan in September (got word from the bank it was okay) and was signing papers at the notary the day before Christmas

avazula

6:57 AM

@Mithical why's that? :/

Mithical

Usually to get somewhere for practice, today it was for at-home practice and then a psychology course

Vivek

well nice that you've secured house

avazula

@Tinkeringbell i mean sure, it takes some time :) but May 12th was the scheduled date before all of this happened and idk if it's still gonna hold. And i'm supposed to leave my current place by June 2nd, so ...

Tinkeringbell

@avazula I don't think they'll be weirded out if you contact them to ask ;) There's probably more worried people out there :)

Vivek

is there any android application for the chat room specific, well, I've downloaded stack app, and it redirects to site which I'm using in web browser

CaldeiraG

6:59 AM

@Vivek Stack Exchange app is deprecated

Vivek

meaning?

Mithical

They're not developing it and not fixing bugs.

CaldeiraG

No longer have new features and existing bugs will not be fixed

SE app didn't have chat anyways

Use the website itself

There is a responsive design which is good enough

Vivek

hmm... ok

avazula

@Tinkeringbell They're supposed to let me know ... but it's been a while, for sure.

I'd work on a SE app ... if I had time and was more talented T_T

Vivek

7:04 AM

-_________-

CaldeiraG

@avazula Developers from SO wanted to keep it running if the app was opensource

avazula

@CaldeiraG you mean the current one?

CaldeiraG

Yeah

avazula

heh

CaldeiraG

SE wasn't too interested because they're some code they can't show?

Something along that

avazula

7:05 AM

I'm surprised no one thought about trying to develop one ... unless they did but it was too hard?

CaldeiraG

111

Q: Make the mobile apps open source!

Since the apps aren't maintained any more, and probably won't in the near future, many users are waiting for bug fixes or new form factors to be supported. If the SE development team is too busy with other projects, why not outsource the development to the community? Why not make the apps open s...

linked question is the best we got so I would assume there are some secrets :P

avazula

:(

CaldeiraG

@avazula Seems like the case

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A: Q&A blank in Stack Exchange Android app v1.0.95 - S10e/Android 10

We are not providing any further support for the mobile apps. There will not be any more builds made for either the Android or the iOS app (even for breaking bugs). We encourage all mobile users to use the responsive website. We hope to continue to incrementally improve the user experience for mo...

avazula

I'm not even sure their API is public? That'd be super hard to build an app without that

CaldeiraG

I think most of it is public but some is private

> 2020-01-13: The mobile apps (both android and iOS) are declared as officially obsolete, and will not be getting any more builds, even for breaking bugs. This also applies to parts of the API that are used by the mobile apps but are not part of the public API.

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A: Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

April 2020 2020-04-01: The last active time is now shown on questions with no answers. March 2020 2020-03-29: The new follow functionality that was previously announced has now been enabled network wide. It is now possible to follow both questions and answers in order to be notified of n...

avazula

7:22 AM

So what brought you here @Vivek? :)

CaldeiraG

7:33 AM

@avazula Coffee brought me here :p

avazula

I need coffee ...

I'm not strong enough on my own for TypeScript

CaldeiraG

that's no good

avazula

Typescript? Agreed :p

(joke aside I think it's so much easier to use TS instead of JS)

CaldeiraG

7:52 AM

that's nice

Vivek

@avazula well, i was just doing normal stack, asking some questions, and then I entered that physics chat room, where I've been discussing certain things, then i checked about other rooms, found this one interesting and entered it...

avazula

haha, okay :)

Vivek

I've been oart of certain reddit chat rooms too, but they were okayish, just memeing around there, part time memes, part time physics, part time movie

yesterday i watched, My Cousin Vinny, and i was like wow, where i had been keeping this movie all this time... nice flick

@avazula arey there 11 members in total here, or 11 members active rt now

Mithical

11 members currently in the room - who have joined this room and currently have a chat tab open. More "online", although of course someone can leave a tab open and go to sleep.

Milgram experiment

The Milgram experiment(s) on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner." These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels...

Tinkeringbell

8:18 AM

@Mithical why?

Vivek

oh

curious

Tinkeringbell

;)

Vivek

@Tinkeringbell what profession are you interested in ?

Tinkeringbell

Well, I studied archaeology but I'm working as a software developer now... I'm not really interested in anything else :)

Vivek

woah, from archaeology to software development... that escalated quickly

Mithical

8:23 AM

1 hour ago, by Mithical

Usually to get somewhere for practice, today it was for at-home practice and then a psychology course

Tinkeringbell

Ah, spychogoly

Interesting ;)

Mithical

that word is giving me a headache

Tinkeringbell

Classic introduction course? The Milgram experiment is always mentioned in those ;)

Vivek

what

Tinkeringbell

@Mithical I'm sorry! It's a joke thing over here, psychology is one of those words that are mangled often

Mithical

8:25 AM

@Tinkeringbell Indeed. It's a few lessons, basically an introduction to basic psychology and then practical applications in coaching sport.

Part of the coaching course.

Tinkeringbell

O.o now I wonder how the Milgram experiment ties in to coaching sport... push people over their limits? ;)

Mithical

It was more in the "basic intro" part. ;)

Also, it was how as a coach, you're a role model and an authority for the kids... and that you have to keep in mind what that means.

CaldeiraG

9:01 AM

@ExtrovertedMainMan poof?

avazula

@CaldeiraG yeah ...

CaldeiraG

I see :p

TIL dark mode on SO is a user preference so no dice if I want dark mode at home and light mode at work

It doesn't feel right to use dark mode on a very bright office compared to my less bright room

Tinkeringbell

Maybe you need a work user and a home user? ;)

CaldeiraG

+1 account to the thousands of them XD

Tinkeringbell

10:05 AM

I have to admit... putting effort into an answer is a lot more satisfying if it hits HNQ and gets more votes :D

Journeyman Geek

10:16 AM

lol

@CaldeiraG you could set the system option then set dark mode at home

or do what I do and have two accounts :D

Mithical

@JourneymanGeek Darm dank mode!

Journeyman Geek

There are no typos, only zuuuuul

Mithical

*tpyos

Journeyman Geek

spelling misteaks?

Tinkeringbell

11:08 AM

badragegagers.

CaldeiraG

@JourneymanGeek I also use Windows dark mode at work :P but thanks for the tip xD

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell heh, I stole that one from when I was a teenager :D

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Same ;)

CaldeiraG

1:00 PM

Cases: 9886 (+852) / Dead: 246 (+37) / Hospitalized: 1058 (+16) / IC: 245 (+5)

10k tomorrow apparently :(

worldometers.info/coronavirus

Tinkeringbell

1:30 PM

I just flagged some stuff into LQP that could use eyes :)

Rainbacon

Lucky for you, I happen to have eyes!

Tinkeringbell

Can you spare them for a while? :P

Rainbacon

Well I have 4 of them, but I generally only use 2 at a time

That's an awful lot of posts by the same person

Mithical

The potatoes have eyes are those good enough

Rainbacon

1:47 PM

So long as the hills don't have eyes I'm good with it

Mithical

It's a bit annoying that there isn't a place to view posts with pending delete votes that were cast over 30 days ago.

For instance, interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/3103/31 has had a pending delete vote since October '18.

Rainbacon

Wait, delete votes don't expire?

Mithical

Not AFAIK

Rainbacon

Interesting

Tinkeringbell

@Mithical shoot! I guess so :)

CaldeiraG

2:03 PM

Bad news for me: the bus that I usually take will be unavailable starting next week so I need to make a bigger walk to get it :( and wake up earlier

Tinkeringbell

You're still not working from home? Somehow I assumed you would be by now...

Rainbacon

@CaldeiraG that sucks, but on the bright side, at least exercise is healthy

CaldeiraG

@Tinkeringbell Still not :( most people on my office are going remote

I guess i'm needed as a backup?

I can do everything remotely but I would need to carry my big desktop to do so for some reason

(RDP exists) :P

5 min walk, Time of bus was 7:27; now I need to get it at 7:12 with a 15min walk

yay

sleepless days

@Rainbacon I pretty much love walking but not at 7am xD

When I was at school, sometimes I would walk for 45min to get home

Nonetheless, I will tell my boss this and hopefully he has a different idea

Tinkeringbell

@CaldeiraG Maybe he'll allow you to come in a bit late, and you can take the next bus instead (or isn't there?)

CaldeiraG

@Tinkeringbell There's only one

Tinkeringbell

2:12 PM

:(

CaldeiraG

There is a taxi service available but i'm pretty sure it's the yellow taxis (not something like Uber) and I would need to pay them and wait for a refund only months later

That's not ideal either (idk if I have the conditions since there is an alternative)

plus the virus

Tinkeringbell

Yeah. :/ Is an E-bike an option?

To either get to the busstop or maybe even work?

CaldeiraG

I own a regular one, it's 9.5km to work

the bus isn't suitable for bikes

it's more of a highway one

I'll check with my dad if I can take the car because he's not working night shifts

Doesn't seem bad but I don't feel encouraged xD

Tinkeringbell

I cycled that to school every day when I was young! :P

CaldeiraG

2:27 PM

XD

CaldeiraG

3:21 PM

1 user left for Drones and Model Aircraft to launch

751

Drones and Model Aircraft

Proposed Q&A site for experienced flyers, pilots and builders of drones and model aircraft.

Currently in commitment.

Mithical

Done.

:)

CaldeiraG

Yay :D

Mithical

And apparently I qualify for a bright red rep number there now

CaldeiraG

That's because of your reputation around SE

Mithical

Indeed. I haven't really been active on A51 for quite a while, definitely not since I hit 100k. I'd forgotten about the different coloring.

CaldeiraG

3:34 PM

Yep :)

ankii

3:45 PM

@Mithical your funny

M.A.R.

@ankii don't encourage him

ankii

@CaldeiraG I just wish all sites supported dark mode.. it's frustrating jumping from dark Xcode to bright search results

one hand needs to stay on brightness buttons

or theme changed to light ugghh

@M.A.R. Would youh stop inteerrrrupting me when I'm interrrrupting yoouww!

M.A.R.

*would

Gary Oldman's butthead dracula has cursed anyone who's not his real fan to get the quotes wrong

ankii

was it I'm or I am ?

M.A.R.

"I'm"

ankii

3:52 PM

can't edit now

anyone looking for good reading material on heterosexual masculinity, primarily in sports ? http://ericandersonphd.com
send me a google form with option to attach files if you need pdfs (:

Rainbacon

7:22 PM

One of my coworkers just made a github repository to share the email filters he uses to keep all of the notifications from our test environment from showing up in his inbox

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