@Anilla Depends on the country ;) there's currently a bus strike in mine, so I'm kinda obliged to commute by car if I want to be at work on time. Kinda failed though, I was there at 7AM this morning (2 hours earlier than what I'm supposed to be haha)
@dhein nope. I'm not a room owner there, so that's why we need to be extra careful ... I was too tired I guess :p
@Anilla ooh, I'm gonna check a translator to know how to explain this ^^
@dhein none taken, it's my bad anyways :p
@Anilla: 1st time it was a window opener engine + washer engine 2nd was a gear on my camshaft. 3rd time was a preventive operation of changing the main belt I should also replace the plugs but this requires to go to a specialized garage and I don't have time/money to deal with this right now :p
@avazula Oh believe me I know :) "a person from the same country as someone else" is how google defines the word and how I meant it hehe. I guess I could've chosen a better word but it's 2am here so I'm running a lil low on energy XD
@Anilla But yeh, comming from a village in an more rural area, I know quite a few folks, having done layman changes to their cars :D
@avazula Cause Anilla just needs 2~3 hours sleep a day. I find it impressive... Still being here when I get to my desk at work, and not too rare already in here when I am comming from lunch xD
Some of the devs at my work are really starting to annoy me. They just seem totally incapable of testing that what they push into qual didn't break everything. The demo is this afternoon and there is major regression everywhere. I'm feeling like a babysitter when I write ticket like "page number 2 doesn't display". I want to be chasing sneaky bug, not writing tickets for bugs that are impossible to miss (that is, if you take the time to make some basic check after the push into qual...)
Retrospective is this afternoon, they will definitively hear me...
@avazula Haha :p But as QA it is definitively mine to improve quality everywhere I can so I will definitively talk with the devs (while trying to stay calm but I don't promise anything about that ^^' )
@avazula Oh no, I meant that I while fix the devs not there code (so that, for the future, they will always check after pushing in qual) ^^ I while be unable to fix their code anyway, so...
The conversations tag is the most broadly use on IPS and, in my opinion, this tag doesn't bring any information at all.
Almost every interpersonal interaction could be described as being part of a "conversation". So, what do you say, should we burninate that tag?
If yes, we will need to do so...
@Ælis Rainbacon: You 2 are right on this. But in the end, OP failed to clarify important requests for clarification as A J already asked months ago. And while this question generally would fit for this stack, it is in this form not clear enough to be interpersonally answered. While in theory I think it could be answered in the form it is at workplace. So either way, at least it should be closed, as it is now. — dhein1 min ago
In this question, one of the answers talks about ending conversations before they get awkward.
Once you think a conversation is going to get awkward, how do you end it?
Hi 10 Replies! Wow, a question from the earliest days of IPS. Since then, we've changed standards a bit, and now we expect more from a question than this currently is. Here's a short list of things we've since decided are good to have in a question. Sadly, this is likely to be closed as too broad/open-ended when held against current standards. Feel free to try and edit (would be great, as that way your question might help more people), or leave it if you don't feel like putting effort into an old post, no hard feelings either way. — Tinkeringbell ♦1 min ago
Dropped a comment there, pointing out that we do realize it's old. That's probably a good thing to do on older posts (cc @Ælis)
@Magisch Your awkard puns and you are always welcome ^^
@Anilla Yes, but this saddens me greatly :'( (Well, there is no rule on how many I can flag as NAA or vtc per day, but when there are ~30 posts stuck in the review queue, I know that it's time for me to slow down :p )
@Anilla Nothing is working and it's not my fault, so... I guess I'm just hopefully waiting for something to work so I can do my job. I could do something else in the meantime but since I have a big meeting in 40 minutes, I'm not really motivated to do so
What is grossly missing from all considerations here is that if Hamlet wouldn't be willing to have sex with Ophelia without contraception, than... he has been raped. — M i ech49 secs ago
We've had questions in the past where answers focused on arguing if something was harrassment or not, instead of helping with skills that can be used given circumstances.
@Upper_Case Yeah, in a way we are here to judge ;)
@Anilla I would say it's the whole team fault. This person is always the one making the push in qual because no one else would do it so just blaming them isn't fair IMO
@dhein I could manually do it all again, but that would take quite some time. The easy ways which are blocked for me would involve rollbacks and/or copying and pasting.
if not, I don't think this is something that is yours to solve. Adress the problem that the code does not work, and let them figure out a way to get these merges to work
@JAD Mostly no. And yes, there are definitively going to solve the bugs on their own but there is so many of them that I can't automatize anything properly >< (which makes me unable to work properly)
Thanks guys. I'm more worried about my sister's finances. She's dirt poor, trying to move to a city in-state closer to family. She's currently in another state and it's a rural area
soooo right now i'm just thinking that she probably can't afford another kid.
or it's going to be reeeeallly hard to afford that kid
she told me and my sister, she wanted to come up with some cutesy way to tell my mom... i'm pretty sure my mom is gonna flip.
my mom is a realistic person. she's been trying to support them but if they keep having kids they'll be in trouble...
Brothers and sisters are siblings. Husbands and wives are spouses. Mothers and fathers are parents. Sons and daughters are children. Grandparents, grandchildren ... but what about uncles and aunts, or nieces and nephews?
In writing this, I scanned the "Similar Questions" sidebar and found th...
@Upper_Case yeah. I'm just hoping and praying that things go over well. My mom was already distressed enough because we didn't like the dad to begin with. now he's okayish
Not to mention that a pregnancy is pretty disruptive to your life. I'm not comfortable engaging in the... related, preceding activities without minimizing the chances
@Upper_Case yeah. I'm actually kinda mad at the dad now because he knows how hard it is to work and provide for the kid and her, and he didn't have the sense to wear protection when engaging in that activity??
just so that they have time to breathe and raise the kid and save up money
@Ælis Is that just an ad-hoc portmanteau, or does French have a mechanism for de-gendering? I speak Spanish, which is a similar language but that sort of flexibility isn't there
I've always wanted to learn French
@ElizB I really have a hard time understanding other people
like basically when she told us she was hoping for a "oooh yay congrats" I was more like "I cant talk about this my homework was so hard I'm brain dead good night"
@Anilla @Upper_Case This isn't recognized by most french people. It's just how activist (non-binary people and people who want a neutral language) found a way to make the language neutral
@TheTinyMan It'd be, if my manager didn't tell me I shouldn't have called her before giving her the letter and wouldn't have been so mad at me. She basically said I had no idea how to communicate with people ...
But anyways, in three months I'll work for surgery again! Yay!
@TheTinyMan She said I didn't resign properly. That my way of resigning was rude before I didn't call her before mailing her the resignation. That I shouldn't have told my bosses at the client's so soon - hey! they need to replace me, they deserve to know!
@avazula That sounds interesting. Though now I'm disappointed-- I had an image in my mind of someone working 9-5 in return for slowly becoming a cyborg
@TheTinyMan I don't know ... she really hurt me by saying I have no idea how to communicate. She knows I'm autistic and how hard I try to do things properly. I thought I did well, I even asked HR how I should do.
@Magisch Yeah. I want my own kids, and if I have a baby and she has to give one up, or something happens, I would be willing to do that at the right time but not in 9 months
I'm not convinced by your advice to just 'suck it up'. Having a disorder of this sort doesn't excuse you from following reasonable rules & expectations for the place you're in. If your disorder prevents everyone else from using & enjoying this space in the way it's intended (and a 'quiet zone' in a library is not unreasonable), then unfortunately for you, you can't be there. As an example - if I, as a noob at skiing, jumped onto a black diamond slope and promptly fell a**-over-t**s and blocked it for all the experienced skiers I would be told to evacuate myself from the area... — brhans17 secs ago
Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.
@ElizB Brave Enough mixed a lot of artists together. It was quite different from her previous music. I liked that, but there's definitely more mixed feelings.
@Anilla Nah. :-P This was for my birthday party, right? We had a gigantic pot of chili and some nachos and cheese dip. :-) And played a lot of Smash Brothers and a small amount of board games.
@Anilla Cookie cake and a very chocolatey cake. Although my girlfriend forgot to pick those up when she went to the store so we only got them the next day. ... so more for me! xD
And still some for the people who crashed. And were still there when I woke up. :-p
The conversations tag is the most broadly use on IPS and, in my opinion, this tag doesn't bring any information at all.
Almost every interpersonal interaction could be described as being part of a "conversation". So, what do you say, should we burninate that tag?
If yes, we will need to do so...
In this question, one of the answers talks about ending conversations before they get awkward.
Once you think a conversation is going to get awkward, how do you end it?
Brothers and sisters are siblings. Husbands and wives are spouses. Mothers and fathers are parents. Sons and daughters are children. Grandparents, grandchildren ... but what about uncles and aunts, or nieces and nephews?
In writing this, I scanned the "Similar Questions" sidebar and found th...
