For a backstory, my boyfriend just recently graduated and moved to college, because he already had a rocky relationship with his parents. He was on the edge of getting kicked out of his house several times because his parents are bipolar, so he eventually made the move to live on campus himself. ...
In the past I often heard my mum, my wife, my brother or other relatives to complain how I do certain things (washing dishes, cleaning, etc.) and advising me how they prefer I would do it. For a (too) long time I didn't pay too much attention to it. But recently I my interest in non-violent commu...
@AJ I don't shift but I still do odd hours :p (7AM 6:30PM in average)
@AJ No ... and that's my biggest regret about my current house. I'd like to get my motorcycle licence but I can't until I have a garage to park it. I'm currently looking for a house to buy.
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@Ælis Meh, it's meta. I think the comments are clear enough, you're not looking for winterbash as an answer... but I wouldn't go as far as deleting it.
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'What we Westerners hate the most ...' that's a wild generalisation, I'd be much more likely to upvote this reasonable answer if it were expressed as being particular to US work culture or whatever is appropriate. Certainly in my work culture in Scotland its probably a 50/50 split when using office messenger or skype to ping a greeting first to check if the other person is actually there and in a position to respond rather than going straight in with the question. — Spagirl48 secs ago
All this yesterday talk about Christmas decoration made me want to decor my small studio. Too bad all my decoration are stored in my grandparents' house and then I won't be able to retrieve them before Christmas :(
Also, I wish it would snow in Paris. I love snow, I want to see snow!
I'm basically doing some copy-pasting today (which is really boring). So, if anyone wants to chat, I'm really open to that (please, save me for all the boringness :'( :P )
I have an idea for a question that i'd like to put in sandbox but i'm worried its going to end up as a "phrasing" question... i need to think about how to keep it on topic
No need to thank me, that's what the Sandbox is for after all ^^
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Brainlessly copy-pasting is really boring, I wish I was done with it already (but I will need to do that for at least one more day, this is really no fun :( )
I was going to say "yes", but then I remember that I have no earphone with me at the moment >< (I almost never listen to music at work, not sure exactly why)
@Tinkeringbell My office can be very loud too, but I can't use a noise-canceller with my glasses on (at least, I haven't figure out a way to do that yet), it's too painful :(
@Tinkeringbell Well, thankfully I don't really like listening to music that much. So, it's not that big of an issue for me (and with my part time, the office noice is more bearable. So, all in all, things aren't so bad :) )
i was once given a copy-pasting task that took me 20 hours in total and would've been difficult to automate due to the exact nature of the task.... that was fun
The "worst" part is, I am the one who assigned this task to me. If I really didn't want to do it I could still "this is a bad idea/this isn't working after all". So, I don't really have anyone to blame except myself ><
(but it's an important and valuable task. It just is sooooooo boring!)
Yeah, and I just found out that they want us to be here tomorrow too :(
We used to do 4 days a week here, but we went down to 1 day a week just for meetings because there's so little space and we always sit in a conference room (and they change our conference room/kick us out for random periods)
But apparently there is "client leadership" on site and they want us to be, idk visibly miserable?
I asked for a regular desk the other day (because there's plenty of them, it's just that my boss thinks it's best that the three of us IT guys are in the same place) for that way, I could use my noise cancelling headphones (which do a pretty great job at isolating myself from the others ... but people can hear my music when I wear them so I wanted to get further from other people). That wasn't a great argument to use to convince them.
Side effect: I really don't get along with one of my two coworkers and I'm really struggling not to show it these days. This morning they asked me not to shake my leg in a rather inconsiderate way and it drove me crazy ... which is really little to get mad about
That sounds like a really great reason to go as far from them as possible
Side note: people shaking their legs near me are driving me crazy, but that's easily fixed by having them side not so close to me. If everyone had a reasonable person space for them, those problems wouldn't exist in the first place
@Ælis Conference tables are unstable, they shake alongside the legs :p that's probably what bothered them but heh... I really can't help myself otherwise I'd have a meltdown
I switched to stimming with my elastic bands instead. So far it works o/
Disagree. Inviting someone to dinner is the classic move when you are worried the person might freak out and/or get violent, so you want the venue to be somewhere they will feel inhibited from making a scene. — T.E.D.51 secs ago
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Let's take the following situation:
I'm on the outside and want to go inside
Someone is inside and want to go outside
The door is open (one of us is holding it)
There isn't enough room for both of use to cross at the same time
Every time this situation happens to me, there is an awkward momen...
I just realize that, now that questions are worth 10 instead of 5, I don't know before clicking if it was my newest question that was upvoted or my newest answer >< (this is really terrible, I know! :p )
@mods (@avazual, @Tink, @EmC) This #metoo answer is causing issues. We might want to delete it sooner rather than later (since it's not backed up and causing conflict)
In the past months, there were several occasions when I found foreign waste in my personal bins. I cannot say, that was my neighbor for sure as I never saw anyone. But the waste type and content made me realise since the very beginning that it must be him. There are no families with children livi...
reading some of the answers on our latest HNQ is .. interesting .. because I have personal experience refuting "Generally speaking you don't invite someone to dinner if you want to have a hard conversation", but not enough to write an answer since I didn't act on my gut feelings beforehand :P
i ask a question, am given no hint as to why its a bad question, ask about how to improve it and was ignored until you stepped in. actually, thats not welcoming to new users and even if your suggestion would've improved the question - thats not an environment i wish to be a part of
we kinda do that here too, to be fair. Sometimes you don't want to hear from the downvoters.. you don't want to force someone to say "I downvoted because I think your question is bad and you should feel bad"
which isn't a nice attitude, of course, but if that's the reason it is better they keep it to themselves, you know?
so we take the stance "if they know how to make it better and want to say so, they will"
not to invalidate your feelings. I get it's frustrating, I just don't know how to make it better :/
That's also because of our low traffic though. On a sight like SU where they get a veritable flood of questions every day, there's just not time for that much of a gentle touch everywhere.
From: Troubleshooting Tips - Xamarin Microsoft Page
This occurs when you don't start the emulator from within Visual Studio. When starting the emulator outside of Visual Studio, you need to pass the -partition-size 512 options, e.g.
shell
emulator -partition-size 512 -avd MonoDroid
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thank you. A solution was posted but it appears that i have windows registrary errors and i don't have an admin password so i can't download any software to fix it lol
therefore atleast for me, the problem has no solution other than trial and error... which i am not gonna do
its often a good way to communicate with new users even if it's not best practice
i remember on worldbuilding SE i managed to get the same answer accepted on 4 different questions... i'd always flag the question for duplicate but it sometimes took its time
Recently, a person in our group of friends, let's call her Rachel, was involved in a car accident.
The problem is, she was drunk and driving a stolen car.
To give a bit more details : they were two in the car, both of them drunk, and they ran in a car with 4 teenagers (their driver was not drun...
@thanby while I would also find this a bit odd, I wouldn't consider it outrageous for someone to choose this way. In fact, a reasoning like “ok, this person is going to hate what I'll say, but I want to make it clear that I'm not being an angry attacker but just saying what needs to be said” could well motivate the choice to go to a restaurant. — leftaroundabout2 mins ago
@EmC super user seems like a mess to me.. Now all questions are too old to migrate, rep farmers don't vote to close or link to similar questions, even tags are so poorly used. Then everyone just dumps their query there since it is a site for "computer hardware and software".
the site definition makes it eligible for questions of all tech related sites we have
Blue Planet 2 on IMDb, music by Hans Zimmer and Radiohead. made by BBC, available on Prime
@EmC I know :p but my course of action is to look for duplicates first (usually on Google) and found that like 1st result or 2nd. I expect people to do their research before asking but because users don't do that, I told the OP to look at the link and see if anything on the Microsoft page would work. I feel kinda bad if I answer a question and then OP comes in and says it doesn't work and "already checked that"
But in case the link breaks, my answer has the answer :p
For a while GitHub allows users to react with emojis to issues and comments. While I understand the meaning of most emojis like
👍 and 🎉, I am not sure what people are expressing with the 👀 (eyes) emoji.
Let's take the following situation:
I'm on the outside and want to go inside
Someone is inside and want to go outside
The door is open (one of us is holding it)
There isn't enough room for both of use to cross at the same time
Every time this situation happens to me, there is an awkward momen...
Recently, a person in our group of friends, let's call her Rachel, was involved in a car accident.
The problem is, she was drunk and driving a stolen car.
To give a bit more details : they were two in the car, both of them drunk, and they ran in a car with 4 teenagers (their driver was not drun...
For a while GitHub allows users to react with emojis to issues and comments. While I understand the meaning of most emojis like
👍 and 🎉, I am not sure what people are expressing with the 👀 (eyes) emoji.
