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ElizB

02:58

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Extroverted Main Man

05:57

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Q: How to tell people to stop aggrandizing my allergies?

Background I’m a special li’l’ person in that I’m allergic to a lot of foods. This includes... All types of nuts Milk, eggs, cheese; all dairy products Avocado... especially on toast :( Gluten Only a few of those foods are actually serious if contacted with (I would have to go to the hospita...

dhein

06:24

Guten Moooorgen :D

Extroverted Main Man

06:44

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Q: How do you maintain relations after you've received help from an acquaintance?

I'm not talking about workplaces. I'm talking about friends outside the workplace. Maybe you have a friend and got introduced to his friend (X) sometime. Then after a couple of years you needed help from this X person and you call/message him, remind him of how you know him and request for what...

acquaintances helping

dhein

07:31

lol... Funny story to share with you guys: I had just till now to identify a gif wihich was hardcoded into js code as img/gif:Bytedata. So I prepared it and just copypasted it into the browser and got the "image can't be displayed sign. The gif I had to compare it to was having the very same structure and was just being displayed fine.

Took me like 1 hour of experimenting what the problem could be.... the structure was definitely fine. and the data section it self should not be able to corrupt the images meta information as far as I know and would make any sense of it....

In the end I figured.... the hard coded GIF was a image of the "this image can't be displayed" sign.... '^.^ the browser was displaying it correctly from the very first beginning, it was just the gif itself that confused me x'D

conclusion: the 2 images aren't the same.... and I can continue my work x'D

avazula

08:09

Guten Morgen alles Leute!

dhein

Almost :P

avazula

@dhein My German is rusty. I need to go check what's wrong ;p

dhein

But hey, at least 100% correct spelling x)

@avazula It would translate into "Good morning whole people!" what you wrote x)

avazula

@dhein Hey, that literally translates into "good morning all people"

:p

guten Morgen allerseits?

dhein

@avazula yeah that would be perfect. spelling: A+ Grammar: A+ and its even somewhat "slang" so cultural background: A+

:P

avazula

08:12

Yay :D

:hap:

I hate that I don't know how to speak German anymore

I understand it pretty well but my vocabulary is so mediocre now

dhein

poor you :x

Lass deutsch üben xP

avazula

Übungen! Ja!

IPS Comment Bot

08:50

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avazula

@IPSCommentBot ftp

dhein

@avazula The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

you are welcome :P

avazula

@dhein haha

Mithrandir

@avazula Oof... Morning...

avazula

@Mithrandir Morning! what's that book?

Mithrandir

09:02

A book of the Talmud

I'm too sleepy to concentrate properly on it :p

Hence the coffee.

dhein

@Mithrandir I could for sure not even if I wasnt :P

Mithrandir

:P

dhein

But that letters look beautiful ^^

avazula

@Mithrandir I don't know much about Judaism, do you have to say prayers in the morning?

Mithrandir

@dhein The main text is in Aramaic and written in the Assyrian script. The smaller ones are mostly in Hebrew and written in Rashi script. Rashi is harder to read :p

@avazula Yes, but that was several hours ago. Now I'm studying different things - this, prep for my high school tests... and I'm still sleepy.

avazula

09:07

@Mithrandir ha, I get it. Well, lots of courage and energy to you :*

Mithrandir

:)

dhein

09:20

@Mithrandir I didn't even see a difference. hard to read I just take what you say. But nice to look at :P

you from Israel?

Mithrandir

Originally from the US, now in Israel

dhein

May I ask how that came? I mean that you moved? :)

Mithrandir

My parents got married here, they moved back to the States, stayed a bit longer than planned, and then returned

dhein

Huh, not as exciting as I was expecting '^.^

You fine with it?

Mithrandir

Yeah. I struggle a bit with language because we homeschool and I'm not... a social person, so I haven't picked up the language as well as I should, but I can get by. I'm just a little freaked out about getting drafted

dhein

09:27

drafted?
But hey, sounds not too bad then :)

Mithrandir

Into the army

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 18 hours ago, by Mithrandir

Oh, lovely. The army sent me three different dates to come in for a chat, so I need to go check my automatically created profile on their website to see which of those three dates they actually want me to come into. They sent me a password in the mail to get in to it, so I open up the site, put in my ID number and the password... and it's not working. Great. >.<

dhein

Oh... Understandable.

I assume things are a little different about the army in Israel as I would be used to from European countrys, aren't they?

Mithrandir

I don't know, because I don't know how it works in other countries :P

dhein

Well here in germany I would just have to explain that I don't like dealing with weapons, that I take medications to stay calm, and probably the trait of having aspergers would aswell favor it if I didn't want to go to the army. at least that was how it was when I was back then asked. Nowadays it is here in germany, that only those who want to join the army join it. as we don't have any obligations to join the army anymore at all.

Mithrandir

Well, people do get exemptions for stuff like anxiety or other stuff that contributes to a bad enough health profile. I have a lot of doctors to see; there's a chance I could get a medical exemption

A J

09:38

guten Nachmittag!

dhein

@AJ Guten Tag :D So I introduced the german day on TAS today? :D

@Mithrandir Huh, wishing you luck then.... I guess.... I mean having such things for a medical exemption isn't a good thing in general ^^

A J

ja

Mithrandir

@dhein I have allergies to pollen, dust, stuff like that; asthma; oral allergy syndrome; unofficially diagnosed Raynaud's; undiagnosed sensory issues; and preliminary blood work is indicating a thyroid issue.

A J

O.o

dhein

@Mithrandir Here you should have good chances to be successful with that. :)

Mithrandir

09:41

Heh

I just need a few official diagnoses :p

Extroverted Main Man

11:15

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Q: How to politely ask someone to stop air-conducting

I regularly host chess evenings, where I and a couple of contemporaries gather to play chess. We listen to (mostly baroque) classical music. Recently, one of the group has started 'conducting' along with the music. I have tried to explain that it is distracting, but they continue to do so, theref...

social-event

Extroverted Main Man

12:35

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Q: Are my besties cheating on me?

Me, my male friend and my girl best friend were a close group. Over time, me and the male friend got really close, though we never got into official girlfriend boyfriend tags. But he expressed me on Many occasions that he loves me a lot and we decided to take our friendship to next level. My girl...

friends relationships

dhein

12:47

Did any one see Anilla yet here in TAS? I really appreciate the effort he/she is putting on our stack right now. Is there anyway to make someone aware of this chat in case they might not know, without leaving a unwelcomed comment? '^.^

avazula

@dhein I never saw them here yet

dhein

Superpings would work, but that might be kind tooooooo invasive.... And probably also not what they are supposed to be for x'D

avazula

@dhein I'm not even sure they could ... It's not what they're used for, is it?

dhein

They can. Tinki did that once upon a time :D

:'D

avazula

Mo'kay.

dhein

12:52

She pinged peufeu cause I wanted to give him a bounty but wanted him to calirfy something before that. And she gave him a ping which he reacted a little later on, despite he was in no chat rooms active for a few days at all.

Ælis

13:15

@dhein I have the same feeling about Anilla. Maybe we could live a comment under a meta post of them?

dhein

@Ælis Already did

^^

interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3525/32 Here, but now I did it, I am not too sure if I might have been too invasive '^.^

Ælis

@dhein It didn't appear in the closet ><

@dhein I find it fine :)

dhein

Great :)

avazula

@Ælis mmh. I need to investigate this

dhein

What is the closet? I mean that one you are referring and investigating about '^.^

Ælis

13:25

@dhein This: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/63296/the-closet

All comment posted on IPS (main and meta) are also posted there

dhein

Ah... theeeen thats weird :O

avazula

@dhein you're being spied on ;)

dhein

yeh, joining that chat and just seeing how often you requested info about me just within a few minutes, gave me a creepy feeling of being stalked by you at first xP

avazula

@dhein we don't collect anything about a user in particular, it's just that all comments are caught and reported if considered unnecessary / rude / something else that's not fitting the site.

dhein

What ever you say my dear :P

avazula

13:35

@dhein I'm trustworthy o/

dhein

Sure x)

I am calling it a day. Had another interview of 2 hours today x) So far this was the last one :x I hope I get requests for more. Really enjoy them :D

So have a good day you all :)

avazula

@dhein I wish I could leave work right now. Enjoy!

Ælis

@dhein Good day to you too :)

dhein

@avazula Owh, don't let your head down :*

@Ælis Thanks :)

Ælis

13:51

@Anilla Hello there! I see that @dhein message as worked :)

Anilla

Haha, hello everyone! I had no idea this room existed. It's neat to see that the community has a method of direct communication. Thanks @dhein for showing me!

avazula

@Anilla Yay, you're here! Welcome! :D

Anilla

@avazula thank you! :D So what is this chat room used for specifically? Is it just general discussion about anything and everything? Or is it specific to the site itself?

Ælis

@Anilla It's the chatroom of the IPS site, so you can ask questions related to it, but we also do a lot off chitchat unrelated to IPS in here :)

Anilla

@Ælis Oh I see. That's neat then! :) Does anyone know what happened to that "Are my besties cheating on me?" question? Did the OP delete it?

Ælis

14:00

@Anilla If you scroll up, you will find a link to it (all new questions are posted in here by a bot). But yeah, it seems that the user deleted it

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@Anilla That's how such a link look like ^

Anilla

@Ælis Thank you :D This is all really cool. I'm glad I found this. There's all sorts of different things I'm discovering about this site haha

Ælis

@Anilla I'm happy you found it too. I (and I know I'm not the only one) really value your contribution on the site and how you are lefting comments for people to improve there questions :)

avazula

bangs their head against the wall can somebody do my ~~homework~~ Vue.JS project for me?

:p

I more I code the more I feel stupid xD

Anilla

@Ælis That's really nice to know. I always wondered if my contributions were useful lol. I've gone from just recognizing everyone's usernames to now being able to talk to them. Awesome!

@avazula that's a mood lol. Code can really spiral into a web you get stuck in for awhile haha

Rainbacon

@avazula If you're allowed to switch to Angular I could help...

avazula

14:12

@Rainbacon Oh, but I already did that project ... in python. But my coworkers would like a Vue project, because it's ... fancy ... ugh! xD

Rainbacon

Is Vue that fancy? I've never used it

avazula

@Rainbacon Let's say it's popular

but it's quite complex the minute you want to do more than displaying how many times you clicked a button

Ælis

@avazula Ouch and sometimes you feel even more stupid when you finally figure out why it wasn't working... (thankfully, it's not one of these days for me)

avazula

@Ælis Oh, that's nice for you then :D

There's way too many "I-feel-stupid" days

Rainbacon

Maybe it's a European thing? I don't think it's too popular in the US. I think we use React and Angular more

Ælis

14:15

@avazula :/

avazula

@Rainbacon I know their names but honestly I have no idea what they're used for

Anilla

How much overhead do these frameworks add to an application? I've been writing everything myself and I've seriously contemplated using one lol

Ælis

@avazula If it can help you, I believe that you are a very nice, caring, giving, capable and wonderful person <3

avazula

@Ælis That's nice <3

I'm wondering whether I won't ask to go work from home

@Anilla Well, Vue is nice because when you attack an API for instance, it'll update the data on your page as soon as it's updated in the API

Rainbacon

@avazula They're both frontend frameworks like Vue. Here's a good comparison: vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

avazula

14:19

@Rainbacon wooh! Thanks for sharing, that seems interesting!

Ælis

@avazula If you do so, don't feel guilty about it. Your well being is important and it will also increase your productivity :p

avazula

@Ælis Well, my manager has to agree with you first :p

Is it okay to ask them you think?

Rainbacon

@Anilla the amount of overhead depends on the framework, but in general there's a bit of a learning curve. Writing a frontend in, say, React feels very different from just writing javascript and html, even though all you are doing is writing javascript and jsx (very similar to html)

I've not used Vue before, but in my experience with Angular and React, I would recommend using Angular first because the Angular community has more well defined best practices and it's a bit easier to get started with

Anilla

So the purposes of these frameworks are to dynamically add data received from a server to the DOM? Is that how they work?

dhein

@Anilla Huh, thought you would be interested in this :) glad you made it and welcome to TAS :)

avazula

14:23

@Anilla that's one usage, yes

Ælis

@avazula That's primarily opinion-based, my dear :p If you think they will be open enough to hear your request and not hold it against you, then go for it. In any other case, maybe try to "test the waters" first. Also, don't forget to have a reason for it (a reason that you are willing to tell them) like "there is too much agitation, I believe I will be more focus at home"

avazula

@Ælis why do you think I asked in here and not in main? :p haha

@Ælis well, it's not busier than usual, and I don't have autism recognition yet, so that's gonna be difficult to use this as a reason for being disturbed I'm afraid ...

Anilla

@dhein thank you! You were right!

@avazula Does VueJS handle Restful services and sockets? Or is that something you have to add yourself?

Ælis

@avazula Maybe say that you would like to use the break for packing before you change house :D

avazula

@Anilla I'm not sure what you mean? (web programming isn't my job, I'm a reconverted artificial intelligence engineer) :p

@Ælis what break? :p

Ælis

14:29

@avazula Or just say "since I didn't work remotely last Friday, can I work remotely for the rest of today?"

Anilla

@avazula oh sorry! It kinda delves into the server side of things. This is all very new to me too lol. I work at a hospital and somehow managed to find interest in programming XD

avazula

@Ælis heh, I'd have loved to do that, but my contract isn't suited for me to work remotely yet (they need papers about my internet connection speed u_u)

Rainbacon

@Anilla As far as I know, none of the frontend frameworks provides anything to handle sockets, but most come with a library for making http calls

Ælis

@avazula Well then, unless you know they will be open to it and/or won't ask more questions, it might be difficult to ask for it :/

avazula

@Ælis yeah, I know... I need to suck it up for today :p

Ælis

14:34

@avazula Lots of love and courage to you <3

avazula

I thought it may be possible for today as I only have to code but maybe they wouldn't be cool with me not being on Skype or whatever

@Ælis thanks dear, same for you <3

Anilla

@Rainbacon ah okay. I'm sure it probably isn't too hard to implement socket functionality. Do you do server side stuff?

Rainbacon

Yeah, but I haven't done anything with sockets since college

Anilla

@Rainbacon They seem somewhat complicated. I haven't done much with them either. What server side language/tool suite do you tend to use?

Rainbacon

Most commonly C#, but recently my projects at work have been trending towards AWS Lambda, which I usually write in JS

ElizB

14:42

Hi @Anilla :) Glad to see you here as well.

Anilla

@ElizB thank you! Glad to have a chat :D

ElizB

I'm pretty much clueless about programming but my hubby @El'endiaStarman knows more about various languages, python is his favorite :) I'm studying to get my masters in public health, and have a bachelors in Environmental science.

so science is my thing lol

Rainbacon

@ElizB I thought you had an internship that was somewhat programming related?

I must be thinking of someone else

ElizB

@Rainbacon that was this past summer, i gotta change that....

Rainbacon

Oh

ElizB

14:47

I know just a tiny bit of SQL that's it

Rainbacon

*shudders

SQL...

ElizB

it's alright lol i don't know enough to really work with it

Anilla

Right now I'm fighting against some tricky SVGs... they don't wanna let me import them externally and modify their stylesheets >_<

ElizB

ah, hmm. don't know how to help....

Rainbacon

Unfortunately, SVGs are outside the scope of my powers

Anilla

14:52

@ElizB Haha that's okay. That's neat you're in health and environmental science. I'm currently studying various medical diligences at uni rn. Right now I'm at a loss as to go into something with computers or medicine. Love people, I'm afraid that working in a computer related industry will take that away from me lol

@Rainbacon seems to be the same conundrum for me too haha. I need to important them externally so Cloudflare caches them. Hmm.

El'endia Starman

I was summoned...?

ElizB

@Anilla Yeah, what were you thinking in terms of what kind of work you're interested in?

@El'endiaStarman Yes, dear. Do you know anything about importing SVGs? @Anilla needs a bit of help

El'endia Starman

Not very much regarding importing them. :/

Anilla

@ElizB I've been leaning towards Radiology currently. I'm interning at a hospital as of now and do technical work with patients. I love it. But I've found a new interest in working with computers too.

ElizB

@El'endiaStarman Ah, alright

Anilla

14:57

@El'endiaStarman thanks for the effort! It's somewhat of a niche area... SVGs are pretty weird since it's like a XML document itself.

ElizB

@Anilla That's really cool. It's kinda hard to do that - people + computers

dhein

@Anilla Nothing is as pleasant as that line x)

El'endia Starman

@Anilla Oh yeah, I know. I've been using them in my latest personal project.

I'll probably be switching to Canvas sooner or later though.

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Anilla

@ElizB Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Maybe I should just stick to studying and work with medicine. Giving up people isn't something I'm keen on doing.

Rainbacon

15:00

@Anilla @ElizB They way to do people + computers is to become a consultant

ElizB

@Rainbacon yeah, thats true

avazula

@Rainbacon it's strongly related to countries, though. I come from medical engineering, and there's so few jobs in that field in mine...

I'd love to go back being a software engineer for surgeons. That was cool

Anilla

@El'endiaStarman I wish I could use canvases. The only problem is it's hard to cache that information it seems.

@avazula software engineer for surgeons?? That sounds amazing!

avazula

@Anilla It was :)

@Anilla My work was about modeling aortae in 3D, as you can see here

El'endia Starman

@avazula Very cool.

ElizB

15:06

@avazula that sounds really cool

avazula

That was challenging but it was so cool working for stuff that actually helps people

ElizB

agh, just embarrassed myself by having tea go down the wrong way into my lung tube :P

avazula

:(

ElizB

hacking and coughing while teacher looks at me and asks if I'm okay and i'm like "ah, no worries I'm fine cough hack tea went down hack the wrong way hack hack

Anilla

@avazula that's awesome! Was that a temporary job you had?

@ElizB Oh no! What type of tea? xD

ElizB

15:09

@Anilla I'm drinking a tea that has beetroot and some other herbals

avazula

@Anilla sort of, I was an intern

Anilla

@ElizB I've been americanized; never heard of such a tea lol. Did you make it yourself?

ElizB

@Anilla No, my dad got it from London when he went to visit- the company is Teapigs, the name is UpBeet tea... i'll probably never find it again but it's nice

I prefer a green tea personally

but since i have looseleaf tea it's not as easy to transport

Anilla

@ElizB What does it taste like? Anything comparable? Green tea has always been my go-to; but I'm interested to hear about others :)

ElizB

@Anilla oh there's so many others. Black, oolong, roobios, white, herbal...

Rainbacon

15:18

Black tea is the best tea!

ElizB

hmm, it tastes something like a beet-ish herbal mellow tea with a tiny bit of bitterness

@Rainbacon Not so for my super sensitive stomach....

Rainbacon

I mostly drink iced tea (that's why I like black tea the most) :)

ElizB

@Rainbacon yeah, agreed

i love iced herbal fruity teas

TheTinyMan

I've been going through a lot of ginger and lavender tea lately! Herbal teas are the best! Also, fruity teas.

Anilla

Iced tea is pretty great. Where is everyone from btw?

Ælis

15:30

@Anilla @avazula and I are from France and you?

ElizB

Northeast US, near Albany, New York

I just got 6 inches of snow then a half inch or so of freezing rain.... ice covered my car and it took at least 15-20 minutes to hack that ice off the car to make it driveable

Rainbacon

A couple hours south of ElizB, in the big city

Anilla

I live in the Northeast(ish) of the US as well. I'm surprised we've made it through the insane cold XD Oh! I reached 1K reputation. Yippee! :D

@Ælis France! How's the weather over there?

Ælis

@Anilla Congrats!

ElizB

@Anilla Yay! Yeah, that polar vortex was crazy

Anilla

15:40

Thanks everyone! Any tips for making edits on the fly? That seems to be the new privilege I've acquired.

ElizB

I rarely make edits unless something needs serious clarification, and I edit only when I think I know what the OP is trying to say

Ælis

@Anilla It depends on the region. Unfortunately, there is no snow for me :( (I move this year to a "warmer" city and I'm missing having snow in the street like I use to have, at least once a year, in my old city)

avazula

@ElizB I mostly edit for spelling / formatting or narrowing the scope if off topic

Ælis

@Anilla Don't forget to check the title and the tags when making an edit. People always forget about them

avazula

BTW @Anilla, lots of courage for your allergies. I have IBS, I know how painful/disturbing it can get

ElizB

15:44

I have IBS too so I get it as well

Anilla

@Ælis Aww, that's too bad. I love the snow too; except when I have to shovel my driveway because Americans love their cars... >.> @avazula @ElizB thanks for understanding. It does kind of suck to not be able to enjoy a lot of the foods other people do. I'm taking specialized 'therapies' to help fix some allergies though :D there's hope!

avazula

@Anilla oh, that's cool! :)

I hope it'll get better

ElizB

The recent snow is more of a pain because of all the ice that came with it

Ælis

This is me, every day, when I only have two hours of work left:

ElizB

omg me too :P

Ælis

15:51

I'm so unproductive at the end of the day that it's like I'm getting paid to do nothing (but I would rather be home and unpaid)

ElizB

I get it... it's ok to be unproductive because that's your brain asking for a break

Anilla

Been there too lol. I have ADHD so I often find myself anxious if I've been focusing on something for too long.

Ælis

@ElizB Yeah but I can't give it that break because I need a real and long break, not just a 15-minutes one :/

@Anilla Oh, I didn't know ADHD could cause anxiety this way. That mustn't be fun :/

ElizB

16:25

@Ælis yeah, gotcha

Rainbacon

@Anilla congrats on the 1k. I'm getting close to 2k. It's exciting!

ElizB

I'm so close to 2k too :)

avazula

Hey you yellow square

scohe001

Hey you German pub girl

ElizB

hey be nice :P

hehe

avazula

16:34

Oh but that's a compliment! (it is right?)

Anyway, I take it as a compliment

I'd love to be a German pub girl. With white hair. And lots of beers.

scohe001

Maybe? Lol I thought we were just describing our avatars. I guess German pub girls are probably cool people

Lots of beers does indeed sound good

avazula

@scohe001 Nah, I don't know, I just love Germany

scohe001

For the beer?

avazula

That could have been deep-learning-generated image captions

scohe001

Or the people?

Or the places?

avazula

16:36

@scohe001 erh ... both?

I prefer Czech beer

scohe001

Ahh you really can't beat Czech beer

They're the world's biggest exporter, aren't they?

avazula

@scohe001 Well I only know Berlin and a couple of villages but München sounds awesome

scohe001

@avazula have you ever been?

avazula

@scohe001 I don't know. When I wanna drink Czech beer I go directly to the source! PRAHA!

@scohe001 not in München, sadly.

I'd have loved to live there

scohe001

@avazula damn I'm jealous. We have some cool micro-breweries out here in the states, but it's nothing compared to all the amazing old beer y'all have out in Europe :(

@avazula Then what's stopping you, silly!

avazula

16:40

@scohe001 You're welcome to stop by if you wanna come visit our continent :) I could use a Czech beer-tasting trip.

@scohe001 Well ... Now I'm not the only one making such decisions anymore ... ~~I have a wife and children~~ I have a partner and a cat :)

scohe001

LOL well if we consider the cat already convinced, you're 2/3rds of the way there!!

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avazula

@scohe001 Nah, the cat really prefers my partner. That betrayer.

I guess that's because of their unemployment, they and the cat spend lots of fun time together. Without me. ;_;

scohe001

Someone not liking you most? I don't believe it for a second

This must be one eeeeevil cat

scohe001

17:20

@avazula whoa that was the weirdest thing. This message didn't show up in my transcript but I just got a notification for it on the main site. When I refreshed chat it suddenly appeared O_O

If I'm ever over there again you'll be the first to know!

Rainbacon

17:52

@ElizB I finally got the sandbox post made interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3550/11659

Sandman

18:06

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Questions

Proposed title: How can I be assertive without causing conflict? Background I am on the autism spectrum and often have trouble being assertive without causing a conflict. The result of this is that I have become very timid for fear of causing issues by advocating for myself. An (albeit silly)...

avazula

20:24

@scohe001 yeah,that happens a lot these days, that's weird.

I mean, the missing messages haha

Hey @Tinkeringbell @EmC I was wondering. I just bought a crochet pattern and I'm looking to buy some yarn. So you guys have some good sites to recommend me?

Tinkeringbell

@avazula You're in France right? I mostly use the local yarn shop here :P

Are you looking for synthetic or natural fibers?

avazula

@Tinkeringbell preferably synthetic? But if you buy it IRL, I'll look myself don't worry :)

Tinkeringbell

@avazula If you have a Facebook account, you could look to join a french language crochet group, they could probably advise you :)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell ooh, smart. Thank you :)

Tinkeringbell

You're welcome :) Most crochet groups are nice, and they often know where not to order. :)

I've heard bad things about deramores, though the one time I chanced buying there, everything went fine.

Extroverted Main Man

20:37

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Q: Can anyone please help

Good morning I have a friend who is very intelligent but terribly absent minded who sends the odd gift out every couple of months and then announces every year that he will be coming over from the United Kingdom (I live in New Zealand) for x number of days and never thinks of asking me if it wi...

friends conflicts united-kingdom holidays

Em C

@avazula I've ordered from yarn.com and knitpicks before! I don't know about their international shipping though

what are you planning to make?

avazula

20:52

@EmC @Tinkeringbell I bought that pattern:

Tinkeringbell

Oooh, nice :)

avazula

I know it's written 'free', but, ya know... Pinterest tricks to attract you :p

It'd like to crochet this to a part of my family who's fond of beekeeping (I learned from them actually)

Ill make it bigger than a baby blanket though

Tinkeringbell

The things you do for patterns :P Once you get (PUN!) hooked, you'll never stop collecting them ;)

avazula

Hahaha

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Seriously... I have over 150 GB of files, mostly crochet patterns, on a disk somewhere. I must admit that once sorted there's probably only going to be 50GB left, but...

Em C

21:10

@avazula that's so cute!

ElizB

21:35

@Rainbacon Great, i'll take a look

avazula

22:11

@Tinkeringbell what prevents me from having too much is the price, honestly. How comes fabric, yarn and everything is so expensive, especially when you can buy a t shirt for 4 bucks? Really?

Ooh btw guys just wanted to share some cool stuff with you: I was looking for an app for learning ASL (not enough resources online for learning FSL...) and I found this... An app that translates oral speech into ASL instantly... And its called Ava! so illegitimately proud

ElizB

22:30

oh yes I heard about that, thanks for reminding me!!

ElizB

22:47

@avazula Try looking at this website to begin learning gallaudet.edu/asl-connect

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