The Awkward Silence

avazula

07:34

Morning everyone!

I'm late today, I had to get a package at the post office and it only opens at 9AM :p

@scohe001 France can't handle our hotness ;p

Journeyman Geek

@avazula from what I heard about the weather...

CaldeiraG

o/

Pseudohuman

\o

CaldeiraG

yay you're here again lol

sweet 26ºC max at my town lol :p

JAD

07:51

10am and it's'already 30C

avazula

08:05

We hit 41°C on Wednesday

A J

in The Screening Room, 3 hours ago, by A J

It's raining here since Wednesday. Drainage system is completely failed. Water level is up to knees on five kilometer long road. Unfortunately, I have to use that road.

It's 26ºC here.

A J

08:23

@Rainbacon You both look awesome!! Congratulations!!!

Ælis

@AJ Oo Good luck with that!

The weather is nice here today. It's only 24°C and we are breathing again \o

A J

The weather here is pretty nice too. I didn't know it's gonna turn up that cool, otherwise I'd have taken a day off and went on a trip.

Ælis

In other news, there was some nice pastry at my work today and I decided to eat one even though I wasn't hungry. Now I feel sick and I am mad at myself because this happens all the time (eating while not hungry and then regretting it). I know I am acting like someone who is afraid of not having enough food to eat, but I have no idea why I act like that.

A J

Ohh

Ælis

08:45

Might be because my grandma knew the war and was then always afraid that she wouldn't have enough to eat (she had a very huge stock of food in her house when she was still alive). According to my mother, she transmitted this fear to my father who might have then transmitted it to me (but that's just a theory)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis I wouldn't worry too much. A lot of people at work eat a pastry or cake or something when not actually hungry: Food is a weirdly important part of socializing too.

But feeling sick is no fun :(

Ælis

"Food is a weirdly important part of socializing" -> I'm French, I definitively know that :P

Tinkeringbell

hahaha Yeah, it's even worse over there, I guess ;)

Journeyman Geek

09:27

Depends on the person

;p

@Ælis food isn't just about feeling full tho

was it tasty?

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Too, but there's definitely a stronger relation between food and socializing in some cultures than others. Even withing a country :)

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I occationally glare at people cause they're too nosy ;p

Ælis

@JourneymanGeek It was nice, as expected ^^ But the "side-effects" were less so :p

Journeyman Geek

"That's unhealthy" ....

@Ælis ah

now that's different

A J

@Rainbacon Nice! You look like Ed Sheeran in that pic. ;)

avazula

09:31

I hate SE's new interface for question stats :(

A J

Me too.

Ælis

@avazula Why that?

For me who only use half a screen to display SE, it's very convenient

Journeyman Geek

09:50

um. Works for me cause I use mobile a lot

A J

@avazula I hate it and like it too. Like it cause I don't have to scroll to the bottom to find out question's activity and views. Hate it because it doesn't show the exact number of views.

Extroverted Main Man

10:10

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Q: how ask or communicate with the parents about fees

How to communicate with the parents at academy about fees. How to communicate with the parents about student feed back.

parents

CaldeiraG

10:34

@Ælis +1 on that

avazula

10:49

@Ælis and @AJ what I don't like is that it's way smaller now (I mostly use my laptop) and I'd likely miss it, which is inconvenient when you'd like to check the latest activity

@Rainbacon darn, that sounds like a nice problem to have :)

ankiiiiiii

11:21

@EmC Software engg sounds like a cool job. I wont ask for Detailed blogs but how much of an academic background is required for the career?

avazula

11:42

@ankiiiiiii depends on the country you'd like to work in?

Rainbacon

@AJ Thank you!

@avazula it was not the worst problem to have

@ankiiiiiii less than it used to

ankiiiiiii

@avazula India preferably. But I would try to infer from your experiences too

I am not majoring in computer science.

Thats my concern

CaldeiraG

12:30

Mods, well, I asked a question on Sandbox looking for some tips but I decided to post on The Workplace instead (and it's getting some good feedback there) and I deleted my own post. Is the deleted answer gonna stay forever in my screen?

Just curious lol

avazula

12:44

@ankiiiiiii well, if that reassures you, I studied electronics. I'm now a software (DevOps) engineer, after a brief career in data science (which should resume in the next months). Depending on the country, getting into SW development can be quite easy (they lack engineers so much nowadays...)

Ælis

@CaldeiraG Not sure I understand the question, but your answer will always be visible to you (and hight rep users), yes

A J

and moderators.

CaldeiraG

Oh ok, so it's persistant

A J

Yes, it is.

However, you should have a link to your question. Otherwise, you won't be able to find it.

CaldeiraG

@AJ AElis took care of it already :p

A J

12:48

Huh?

CaldeiraG

Wait

I'm not sure now if I understood what you said

Ælis

@AJ Wouldn't it be always visible if Caldeira visits the Sandbox?

CaldeiraG

you mean that?

A J

@Ælis Yes, it would.

@CaldeiraG Yes, but that link only works for recently deleted posts. I don't know what the time limit is.

CaldeiraG

Oh alright :p

Rainbacon

12:54

@ankiiiiiii I don't know how it is in India, but I've met a number of software engineers in America who don't have a degree in computer science. Some are self taught programmers, but a growing trend is to take a "coding bootcamp" which is basically a 6 month long or so course that is supposed to give you all the skill you need to be a web developer.

CaldeiraG

@Rainbacon bootcamps are getting popular around here as well but you need 6k€ to do it XD

but once you get that done you're skilled without a degree

Rainbacon

@CaldeiraG I'm not sure how much they cost around here

CaldeiraG

In portugal it's around that price, and probably should the +/- the same in Europe

the problem with self-taught programmers is lack of work experience

avazula

13:11

@CaldeiraG don't you have free MOOCs in Portugal?

I've learned so much from them or from Udemy's cheap courses (you can learn big data for 10-20euros)

CaldeiraG

I googled it and it doesn't seem widespread here/paid ones
I also don't want brazilian content so the Udemy courses cost 13€ here

it's cheap :p

Nog Shine

Good evening!

o/

CaldeiraG

o/

Pseudohuman

\o

Nog Shine

How's it going?

CaldeiraG

13:20

Going good, not melting here XD

Rainbacon

@avazula Udemy is pretty nice. I'm doing a course on blockhain right now

CaldeiraG

cool :P

Extroverted Main Man

0

Q: How do I respond to my doctor's message in which she mentions she's doing voluntary work?

I WhatsApp'd my British doctor to ask for an appointment, and she responsed along the lines of Thank you for your message. I'm really happy to see you but I'm doing voluntary work in . I'll be back in the UK and have some appointments on Let me know if that works? I'd like in my response ...

politeness united-kingdom professionalism instant-messaging

ankiiiiiii

That was reassuring! @avazula!

Your history sounds like some students here! they study electrical and electronics, do Data Structure and Algorithm as a course and set off to ML or Data science.

which I wont be doing hopefully.

the later part. I am studying EE right now

@Rainbacon, I have done programming. coded in python too, related to image processing.

and front end web dev also. There are some people here who have worked in google Summer of Code. I should start preparing early for next year.

dhein

14:57

Hello everyone. I plan to ask a question about a diferent culture and how they handle something/what they might expect in a specific situation. Now I am already so used for our questions having to have a specific goal as requirement, I wonder, would a question like "Given the action X, what expectation would be connected with it in aspects of culture Y, if any?" be off-topic, too? Since it has no specific goal. Or how could I ask such a question?

Nog Shine

what are the all commands and responses of Pseudohuman?

scohe001

@dhein if you have a goal and it requires proper communication to another individual of another culture that may not understand you given the way you're used to communicating, that sounds like it'd be on topic to me

Tinkeringbell

@dhein Well, I'm kinda guessing your goal is to either to be aware of their expectations so you can do something? Whether that be planning accordingly, meeting them halfway, not being surprised by reactions?

scohe001

But you might as well Sandbox it to find out for sure ;)

dhein

@Tinkeringbell Exactly '^.^

Tinkeringbell

15:00

@NogShine No clue really... ask @JennaSloan, they're behind the bot ;)

dhein

<del>But would this goal actually change anything about the answers I would get?</del>

.... Yeah, it would nvm me. Just gonna try to phrase it out ^^

Tinkeringbell

Good luck :)

scohe001

15:17

As of last week, The Sandbox is a year old!

In the last year we've had 72 Sandbox'ed questions with a little over half of them ending up being posted

Thank you guys for all the help in maintaining it!!

4

Tinkeringbell

O no... we missed its birthday? Perhaps it's time to create a clean Sandbox soon then (if there's a period of inactivity)... Just so we don't have that many deleted posts in there :)

scohe001

I actually asked over in the WorldBuilding chat awhile ago. They said they'll usually create a new one at around 100 questions. So we have a few more months to go ;)

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell That could be a good idea indeed

Tinkeringbell

@scohe001 Ah, that's a good number too :D

But I'm proud! 72 in a year means people are actually using it, so that's great!

Sounds like we have a pretty successful resource there :) Good job everyone!

El'endia Starman

If questions that get posted are deleted from the sandbox, then you don't necessarily need to create a new one.

Tinkeringbell

15:26

@El'endiaStarman Well, for one, the list of posted answers will be very long too then, and editing it becomes a lot of scrolling :P

El'endia Starman

CodeGolf's sandbox has 6800 answers, many of them deleted.

Tinkeringbell

And for people that can see deleted posts, they might have to scroll down a lot before finding the 'answer' button.

El'endia Starman

Or use the 'End' key. :P

Tinkeringbell

meh, I don't use magic key tricks :P

dhein

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/22513/32 I am not really satisfied with the prhased goal. I can't really come up with it more precise without figurateively doubling the question body :x

Extroverted Main Man

15:28

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Q: Having been highly praised for my professionalism, am I expected to return the praise?

At work we have a tool, which you can use to send coworkers an appreciation, basically sending them a message that expresses what you appreciate and a text field to enter a message why you send this appreciation. Generally a really nice tool to make each other feel their work being valued. Now I...

work-environment india cross-culture

scohe001

@El'endia the biggest problem for me is page load times and how slow and buggy it is to scroll that far. SE isn't made to handle loooooong pages very well

CaldeiraG

@Tinkeringbell I like sandbox :p even though I'm aware of how to write a good question

Tinkeringbell

@CaldeiraG I like it too, especially for some of my harder to write questions :)

@dhein You did fine! And it's not a bad thing to have the same question both in the body and title, using the same phrasing ;)

Jenna Sloan

@NogShine The commands that Pseudohuman does are as follows: if the message starts with the trigger (which is currently set to "~$"), it returns a response for the corresponding command. Otherwise, if the message pings the bot, it will take the raw text from the message, remove its ping, and asks the resulting text as input for wolframalpha.com, and return the first non-input pod in the response. If a message doesn't ping the bot or start with its trigger, it will typically not respond.

ankiiiiiii

@El'endiaStarman Mac cries. I guess cmd + down arrow, should do

Jenna Sloan

15:36

Also, my bot is open source: github.com/Jenna3715/ChatBot

scohe001

@Pseudohuman how is the weather

Pseudohuman

temperature | 68 °F
conditions | clear
relative humidity | 81% (dew point: 62 °F)
wind speed | 8.1 mph
(44 minutes ago)

scohe001

Now I know where you live -.-

Jenna Sloan

It says where I live on my profile -.-

Nog Shine

@Pseudohuman How are you

scohe001

15:37

Oh. Didn't realize Pseudohuman lived with you lol

Pseudohuman

@NogShine I am doing well, thank you.

El'endia Starman

@ankiiiiiii Yep, or Fn+Down.

El'endia Starman

15:51

Err, Fn+Right, actually. Fn+Down == Page Down.

ankiiiiiii

16:38

@El'endiaStarman Ha! thats new! I also tested and failed with down. Just didn't point out :)

Em C

16:59

@ankiiiiiii late reply - but I'm probably not the right person to ask about that, I have multiple degrees went to grad school (which was rather unnecessary if my goal was simply to get a software job tbh, but it wasn't at the time) :P There are plenty of people I know in software that don't have CS degrees though, and some without any degree at all (though, that does make it harder to break into the industry from what I hear)

(also - speaking from a US perspective only)

ahh now that I'm catching up on transcript, glad to see the comments from others too :)

ankiiiiiii

Yes, all replies were helpful! Thank you too.
Industry seems fairly welcoming :)

CaldeiraG

19:31

@Tinkeringbell exactly :D

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