The Awkward Silence

Extroverted Main Man

02:09

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Q: Why is it so difficult to make friends?

As a senior in University I'm having trouble with my social circle. I've never had many friends. Maybe 10-12 on average. This year I've hit a new low. I have 0 friends. Zero. None. My previous friends have left me over a housing dispute. To get a sense of what I mean by friends, I'll elaborate...

dhein

05:43

Morning :)

avazula

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JAD

06:22

ohai

Ælis

09:29

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A J

09:51

@Ælis Your first cleanup? :P

Ælis

@AJ Not quite, I failed my first one and trashed a message from ElizB (congratulating scohe and I for being RO) with the rest of the bot stuff x)

A J

lol

@Ælis Do you have Tampermonkey or any add-on in your browser for running scripts?

Ælis

@AJ On my home computer, yes. But not on my work one

A J

Well, if you can install Tampermonkey, you will have this script to clean messages fast.

ankiiiiiii

10:13

@EmC unrelated but can mods undelete question deleted by OP?

A J

10:23

@ankiiiiiii yes, but why?

ankiiiiiii

@AJ ah I had an answer on one deleted question on Apple

CaldeiraG

Morning :)

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG \o.. after noon

CaldeiraG

almost :p

congrats AElis and scohe for RO :)

ankiiiiiii

Everyone wants to do machine learning. Nobody wants to learn/ use statistics .

A J

10:34

@CaldeiraG evening

@ankiiiiiii can't help there.

ankiiiiiii

han i was about to ask the mod there, once OP comes back online

@CaldeiraG long press a for accent options on mac ;)

CaldeiraG

@ankiiiiiii I'm on Windows, Portuguese layout so

ankiiiiiii

@ExtrovertedMainMan would this question feel broad to close voters if it was about workplace? @Ælis and @avazula

CaldeiraG

i can do the Alt thing though :p

Ælis, there ya go

Alt + 146 :p

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG never used it. Once felt the need and then I copy pasted

CaldeiraG

10:41

XD

ankiiiiiii

¡§¢ this is alt 154 for me

CaldeiraG

i edited it straight away

146

ankiiiiiii

¡¢ˆ

A J

Æ

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A: How do I type an 'æ' character?

Typing unicode is slightly different in Ubuntu. The key combination is: Ctrl+Shift+U+code+Space However, Windows uses decimal notation while Ubuntu uses Hex notation. Æ in this case (what 0198 is) is c6 for Ubuntu. So, you'd do: Press Ctrl+Shift+U. Release it. Type c6 (or 00c6) Press Space ...

For Ubuntu

CaldeiraG

It's different for each OS

While on Windows Æ is 146, on ubuntu is 198

ankiiiiiii

10:43

ओह = Oh

CaldeiraG

"Windows uses decimal notation while Ubuntu uses Hex notation."

ankiiiiiii

wait that shortcut changed my language

CaldeiraG

oh no

:p

For mac users, Æ is option+'

ankiiiiiii

Æ shift for caps. Yup thanks! but you know, long press is way too éäšÿ

Tinkeringbell

AltGr, Shift and Z over here...

ankiiiiiii

10:45

what are you using?

Tinkeringbell

A keyboard?

Windows.

ankiiiiiii

;P

Tinkeringbell

And Chrome, I guess

ankiiiiiii

ok

I think discussion differentiated between OSes ;p

IPS Comment Bot

you need to respect what she wants and does, even if it is terribly wrong. By "respect", do you mean "accept"? Because doing willfully something terribly wrong is exactly the right way to lose someone's respect. — Beejamin 1 min ago

CaldeiraG

10:47

i can't reproduce it, Tink has a AZERTY layout :p

while i'm on QWERTY

ankiiiiiii

Guess what's worse than ants on your bed?

red ants

I am not going to that bed till later tonight now

Journeyman Geek

0_0

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek there's a mango tree right in front of my balcony.

Journeyman Geek

ah

ankiiiiiii

troubles more than mangoes

Journeyman Geek

10:51

lol

and only in season

ankiiiiiii

true! people bring sticks and stones to collect Jamuns and mangoes around. Received a few on my door

Journeyman Geek

sticks and stones may break my.... door?

Tinkeringbell

@CaldeiraG I'm on QWERTY too!

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek my head too ..

Journeyman Geek

ow

>_>

ankiiiiiii

10:54

didn't get hurt yet, complained to hostel staff.

Journeyman Geek

I have 2 keyboards in front of me Both querty

@ankiiiiiii that probably sucks

clearly you need a helmet

CaldeiraG

@Tinkeringbell Oh alright :p

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek hahaha, would feel amazing coming out the room for classes in warrior mode

off to buy Gym membership

Journeyman Geek

.... with horns?

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Either querty is a thing I never learned about... Or you just managed to misspel hitting a few buttons in order :P

ankiiiiiii

10:56

and sword, to cut mangoes in half

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell yes

since I am typing on a smaller cramped unfamiliar keyboard ;p

Tinkeringbell

Hahaha XD

Journeyman Geek

on my old PC, since I'm currently engaged in mortal combat with the old version of windows 10 on my new PC

I upgraded the ram by the way. I had optimal levels of stuff not working for it to be fun

Tinkeringbell

I reinstalled windows at the beginning of my vacation. Now updates are working again, Yay!

Also... lunch. BBL

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell considering it ;p

JAD

11:12

@Tinkeringbell Dutch keyboards have a different layout (For some reason)

avazula

@ankiiiiiii yes it would. Answering "how to make friends" is too broad IMO

dhein

11:24

@ankiiiiiii Not even sure how that would change anything

ankiiiiiii

@avazula OP did list efforts made by them, although then refused to accept answers on the same line. They listed their routine and it is truly minimal for a person. There aren't a lot of activities or possible scenarios where OP needs help

yes a bit more info was required, as dhein's comment said, which would attract more answers, but fundamental things could have been answered till then

@dhein I just thought that people have forgotten their university lives

"If an answer we're to contain info bases on organizations, it should be based on organizations that I'm already a part of" So OP gave a setting right there

Tinkeringbell

"Making friends" requires more than just 1 Interpersonal Skill. It would be like asking on SO how to write an entire application suite.

avazula

^ this

Tinkeringbell

So generally, questions asking how to make friends or how to build a social life from scratch... they're too broad. Too vague to have an answer. You'll end up with 'every answer being equally valid' because they likely only address a small part of the problem.

Rainbacon

12:07

@Tinkeringbell When I read the first sentence, I thought for sure you were going to follow it up with, "and it just finally finished"

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Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon Hahaha sssh! No one needs to know that's the real, embarrassing reason for my absence! :P

CaldeiraG

@Rainbacon :P

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/posts/22770/revisions why this off-topic question got edited only for formatting? Because making a edit on a 'on-hold' question will pop up to the Reopen queue

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Q: Should I edit on-hold questions?

Should I ever edit a question if it is on-hold? The OP is supposed to edit the question anyway when it is on hold, so an edit by another user is bound to be overthrown by the OP's new edit. And if he does not edit the question, the question will be deleted. Will my edit be of any use, or will i...

discussion questions edits vote-to-reopen on-hold

Ælis

13:05

Things are so quiet here during the (US) summer. I can't wait for people to come back from their holidays and start posting stuff again

IPS Comment Bot

13:26

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ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG I presume that this rule can be broken when there's less load on reopen reviewers and readability increases. I also got an edit approved(on Apple) as it made title shorter, added a tag and expanded body. got one rejected as it didnt remove the subjectivity. That's what OP had to do.

apple.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/270603 approved .

apple.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/270623 rejected. Though held under different reasons, but still, indicative of the approvers' behaviour on the site.

@Tinkeringbell okay, seems reasonable.

Journeyman Geek

Well - reviews by nature should be, judged on their own merits

and averaging them out helps with making sure that well, people make good decisions

ankiiiiiii

13:43

that was heavy for me. Not well experienced with either of the reviews(edit, reopen)

CaldeiraG

That question will not be deleted because it has an upvote (and an answer) while questions with 0 score or less will likely be deleted. That question just needs to be clarified.

And once it goes through the Reopen queue it will not go again to the queue which would need a custom flag to reopen (if it's valid to reopen).

@ankiiiiiii This question however feels off-topic to me straight away it shouldn't be accepted. You can't recommend the most reliable PC without your case scenario, what are you gonna use it for, etc.

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG well the second para was also an edit by OP. it was clarified when asked.

@JourneymanGeek How's Ash doing ? I haven't gone to my(our community) dogs recently. Though one of them visits me at my room, 2-3 times a week.

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii doing ok for a geriatric ;p

ankiiiiiii

It's good for old dogs to be in a house.

I dont know what happens to stray ones when they're old

CaldeiraG

@ankiiiiiii Even with OP's edit it didn't do much to improve it

Journeyman Geek

13:54

@ankiiiiiii eh, ash has a home for life ;p

and well, he's a bit of a local legend at this point

CaldeiraG

I would also want a super reliable computer like he wants too :p not everything is perfect though

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG yeah, it doesn't make a quality question. Better read some reviews anyway. Nobody is a review writer on AppleSE, or there maybe, but less likely. Very few people would have had experiences with multiple laptops ,so close in release year.

CaldeiraG

you can't ask for the pc with less problems, I wouldn't buy a pc to only have problems with it :p

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek True! I somehow landed on your youtube channel. Love to him(again) and the appropriate word to you too!

there's an IPS question right there

Journeyman Geek

I'm mostly behind the camera XD

@CaldeiraG that's no fun

You need something just crappy enough

CaldeiraG

13:58

@ankiiiiiii There are more stable computers i'm sure but most macbooks until late 2015 are probably not receiving updates anymore

ankiiiiiii

it feels great to solve issues than running a super smooth thing

CaldeiraG

@JourneymanGeek You're right :p

@ankiiiiiii Until you found out you spent a whole day on a thing that could be fixed in some minutes

Journeyman Geek

@CaldeiraG I ran an old PC I pulled from a dumpster for about 6 months ;p

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG well Mojave went till 2012 for pro and air , 2015 for "MacBook"

@CaldeiraG thats why there's SE!

@JourneymanGeek for Solitaire?

CaldeiraG

@ankiiiiiii I don't know much about the Apple products, i know some stuff

Journeyman Geek

14:01

@ankiiiiiii daily use actually

ankiiiiiii

@CaldeiraG I too checked update page ;p

Journeyman Geek

wasn't actually much worse than my old/shared PC, other than the GPU, and it was dead.

CaldeiraG

Well, i run a 5-year old prebuilt pc with a i3-2120 :p

Journeyman Geek

Eventually managed to smuggle in a new PC ;p

@CaldeiraG a 2120 is older than 5 years ;p

also the chip model is wrong

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek that PC "is a bit of a local legend at this point"

Journeyman Geek

14:02

@ankiiiiiii actually, its an internet legend, indirectly

ankiiiiiii

pardon the connotations. :(

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii it ran just long enough ;p

(it died right after I gave it away)

ankiiiiiii

@JourneymanGeek the new one? windows?

CaldeiraG

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, my motherboard can only go up to a i5 3rd gen

Journeyman Geek

@ankiiiiiii in parts

CaldeiraG

14:04

@JourneymanGeek I just checked the ARK page of it, wdym

Journeyman Geek

if the number starts with a 2, its a 2nd gen

second digit is 'line

so my core i7 was a 3rd generation, so it was 3770

CaldeiraG

Oooooooh, i found out why my DDR3 1600mhz only run at 1333, because the cpu only supports 1333

Journeyman Geek

Oh

CaldeiraG

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, i know, but I really have a 2nd gen CPU

ankiiiiiii

dinner time It's malai kofta, parantha and gulabjamun today!

Journeyman Geek

14:06

@ankiiiiiii sounds good. ;p

ankiiiiiii

the best in the week

with some exceptions

CaldeiraG

@ankiiiiiii fancy names i don't understand but should be good :p

Journeyman Geek

@CaldeiraG basically cottage cheese fritters in gravy, flat bread and a sweet that's kinda these balls of things in syrup

roughly

if malai is what I remember it to be

@ankiiiiiii that said.... I prefer the south east asian varient of the prata ;p

(its made from plain flour, not atta and is super soft and flaky....)

CaldeiraG

14:38

good :P

avazula

15:19

Hey guys

My boss just told me they're keeping me after the end of my probation period

scohe001

Woohoo!

avazula

:D

Party!

scohe001

🎉🎉🎉

Ælis

@avazula Congrats! When is the end of your probation?

avazula

@Ælis October 4th.

Ælis

15:23

So a little more than one month left. You must be relief to know so soon, no?

CaldeiraG

@avazula Congrats, I'm also on a similar situation :)

avazula

15:36

@Ælis I am. It's a weight off my chest.

@CaldeiraG yay! Congrats :)

Ælis

A cute cat picture to celebrate this:

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ankiiiiiii

19:34

@JourneymanGeek lachha parantha or naan I guess you're referring to

@CaldeiraG those are generic ;p

@avazula virtual party!

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Ælis

21:21

@IPSCommentBot tp

ankiiiiiii

21:57

It is so easy to reach daily comment flag on SO

scohe001

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@Ælis oof. Missed this one :(

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