The Awkward Silence

1:22 AM

In addition to these answers, I'd say that most of the time it is unlikely that the stomping will go away completely. As a result, in the future you must try to get a top floor apartment. As a last, I recommend getting a bluetooth speaker with bass, but not turned up high. Listen to"Rumble Works - Ambient Low Frequency Noisescape for Ten Hours" on youtube with bass about 50%. It is good at masking the stomps. Stomps are low frequency sounds so you need low frequency noise to effectively mask it. — Jarvis 14 secs ago

Brown noise + gray noise with bass speakers is a great way to mask the stomping. It's been very helpful. And it doesn't have to be very loud to the point your neighbor can hear it. The physics of the acoustics allow it to work effectively at even low volume. I've become a near sound expert over the past 2 weeks because I am also dealing with a new tenant. I rather try to solve the issue using principles of sound waves before going any further. — Jarvis 2 mins ago

It's unlikely that you can get a carpenter to modify any apartment complex. That's likely something not allowed in your lease. But you can install sound insulation foam panels that can easily be taken down once your lease expires. Most complexes allow something like that. You may need assistance to help you put them on the ceiling depending on your comfort. — Jarvis 20 secs ago

dhein

6:38 AM

Hey everyone. :)

A J

Afternoon!

dhein

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A J

Hello!

How was your weekend, @dhein?

dhein

@AJ Hey :) Oh it was great. I watched on friday after years my favorite movie again with a guest that visited me. Saturday I was playing DnD and we had a really great roleplaying session. And saturday I was playing a new video game I just started last week and had inbetween interesting chats with friends. So yeah.... How was yours? :)

A J

@dhein Pretty relaxing. Watched the latest episodes of Young Sheldon and The Mandalorian. Slept during the afternoon. Collided the bike two times while traveling across the town (the first one was someone else's mistake and the second one was on me) in the evening.

dhein

6:47 AM

@AJ Weird definition of relaxing you have considering the collisions :D But The Mandalorian seems to be good, as I keep hearing about it? But glad you relaxed :)

A J

@dhein Well, it happened during the evening. The rest of the day was relaxing. ;) Also I will not get to ride the bike for a week now.

The Mandalorian is good. Though it may or may not contain references to the upcoming Star Wars movie, but still I'd not want to miss them.

dhein

7:10 AM

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/23667/32 Hmmm could anyone verify my last comment I made there? If someone disagrees with what I stated there, I might have to make a meta post asking about it, or at least looking for one clarifying it.

avazula

7:31 AM

@dhein if I understand correctly your issue is that the answerer used "I would" and it let you think that they haven't faced something similar before and therefore should not answer right?

From my understanding they didn't face the exact same situation but they faced something similar. So, purely speaking in terms of policy, they have the right to do so. Now, they use "I would" so we might think they didn't use that particular approach to solve the similar issue they faced. This is not okay, I agree.

So what we need to know now is whether they actually used that approach... Which I think they did upon re reading the answer. We just need to make that clear.

Also, morning everyone :) I'm off today, yay!

dhein

7:48 AM

@avazula No, not directly, well yes and no. My point is, while I tried to avoid directly accusing them of it to avoid confrontation, that the first paragraph is just an opener to suite the policy. So they say "I was once in a similiar situation with a friend" and treat it like an entry ticket to being allowed now answering with their not backed up opinion.

avazula

Well in that case if you think it's unclear how to events are related, maybe you might ask them to tell more about said similar situation?

dhein

But instead of answering what they would do in this situation. Which is only suggestions again, they should instead answer what they did in their situation rather what they would do if they had been in this situation. As just claiming "I was once in a similiar situation" Is from how I get it not neccesarily a related situation. Or at least only they would know. So I was assuming it would be better to answer in terms of what they did. Not what they would do here.

As that way one would be able to figure themselfs if they find it really relevant and make their own conclusions on that.

If that makes any sense

@avazula But in their comment they stated the very opposite, or did I misread that? From how I got their first comment, it stated, that this is NOT what they did, since the situation they refer to was not similar and what they suggest here wasn't applicable that way in their situation.

So if I didn't get the comment wrong, I take it as this answer has actually no backup.

CaldeiraG

Morning o/

dhein

@avazula Thats what I just did (or at least tried? dunno if I was clear enough). Since I would find it better if they just would answer what they did, rather than what they would do. As in that case it would be backed up.

And if it turns out that what they did, has nothing really similiar with what OP asks for, I would find an not helpfull answer better by our policys than a answer that seems to be helpfull but untruly claims to be backed up. At least as said thats my point of you by my understanding of our policy. But I might be getting something wrong here.

Ælis

@Mithical Nice pink hair! And the stars are really cool too!

@dhein If it helps, I agree with you

Mithical

7:57 AM

It's PURPLE!!!

:P

Thanks.

dhein

@Ælis It does help. Thank you :)

Ælis

@Mithical Nah, that's because it's the night. I'm sure it would be pink if you had choose a sunny background :p

CaldeiraG

The hats seems to be a bit harder than I anticipated x) (for someone who is kinda of a lurker)

Ælis

Yeah, winter bash as started \o/

@CaldeiraG Well, some are impossible to gain on IPS, but last years was the same, so...

(But I should be going to work now, instead of chatting with you all :p )

CaldeiraG

@Ælis Pretty much xD

dhein

8:02 AM

@Ælis Then better hush hush :D

Enjoy your day :)

Tinkeringbell

8:38 AM

Good morning! :)

CaldeiraG

9:24 AM

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A: Winter Bash 2018 Knitting

Some of us MATLAB dorks decided to try and figure out how to automatically format a picture to upload to the knitting tool. After balpha gave us a hint, we realized that much of what we were doing was pointless. It turns out that you can upload any picture as long as it is a given size: 442 pixel...

knit-rolled! :p

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