The Awkward Silence

3:58 AM

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#23974 Nelson (1375 rep) | A: My colleague keeps microwaving fish at work, how can I stop this (score: -2) | posted 2 hours ago by obe (97 rep) | Toxicity 0.0 | tps/fps: 0/0

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6:17 AM

@Ælis Thanks for sharing. But As I had said: That is not how I am used to that term being used. When I learned from my therapist/autistic close friend about it. I learned it being used synonym for asperger as opposition for infantile autism. Just that back then people weren't connecting asperger with autism as such. So the term helped me putting a point to many discussions.

Hey everyone :)

6:32 AM

Heya

How r u doing?

Fine! You? :)

Okish ^^

oh? What's happening?

6:47 AM

Ah to put it short, a friend I am quite close to for almost a year now, started over the past 2 weeks causing a lot of drama. They don't really tell me what its about... So yeah... dunno. I don't like drama for no apparent reason. '^.^

oh :(

7:12 AM

Yeah what ever. :D Except for that I am fine, too :) Having birthday the comming weekend and I just want to celebrate with no one but myself. Whole weekend blocked for me. I even reserved a table for 1 person at my favorite restaurant x'D
Writing "me-time" slots in my calendar for now seems to do a great job :)

@dhein yay! Good for you :)

I love going to a restaurant on my own.

What is it going to be, 28?

@avazula Like Keanu Reeves? ;)

@AJ You know I know nothing about movies :p so I ... don't get the reference :p

Well, he was found eating alone on a park bench once. There have been occurrences of him taking public transport alone. So he kinda loves his own company.

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Charles Reeves ( kee-AH-noo; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor, producer, and musician. Reeves gained fame for his starring roles in several blockbuster films, including comedies from the Bill and Ted franchise (1989–present); action thrillers Point Break (1991), Speed (1994), and the John Wick franchise (2014–present); psychological thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997); supernatural action horror Constantine (2005); and sci-fi action series The Matrix (1999–present). He has also appeared in drama films such as Dangerous Liaisons (1988), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and Little Buddha...

7:27 AM

Oh, that. Right. I know about that.

@avazula Never did that before. Time I spent alone allways feels so wasted for me... Cause I could also spent it with others... '^^ But as thats the problem and I really wanted to go there again.... That's killing 2 birds with one stone. :D

@avazula yeps :)

I heard he recently found a partner

@avazula Like a lunch mate? Or a commuting partner? Sharing the tickets? :D

sorry... duh >.<

@dhein love partner? :p

7:47 AM

@avazula Yeah, dunno... just found that course the conversation took funny ^^

haha

thanks :P

Morning! :)

@AJ The meme itself :p

Tinkeringbell

morning!

8:33 AM

Morning

8:59 AM

Morning :)

Today I found lots of align="end" in html written this year.

Align attribute has been deprecated since, what, 2000? Earlier? At least 20 years now. I'm sad :(

@Belle Please, tell me it's on the CSS and not directly on the HTML?

@Ælis Sorry... no

:'( People hard coding CSS in their HTML are evil

9:30 AM

@Belle :(

9:45 AM

@chump let's have cat

@chumpbot Ouch x)

And maybe another cat @chump ?

You are in a funny mood today, are you? :p

10:19 AM

If someone wants to had something here?

Well, I apparently failed with my comment :/

Tinkeringbell

Don't worry about it... this is one of those things/times where.. well, we're running into the limitations of how setting expectations upfront works :/

Yeah, I think this user was expecting to be able to just give their opinion and be done with it

11:06 AM

I'm sad, I don't have any idea for an IPS on-topic question to ask :(

@Ælis you'll come up with some :)

@chumpbot parrot

11:23 AM

@CaldeiraG I just had an idea :D Plus, it's probably gonna help reduce my anxiety, so that's great! Now I just have to take the time to write it (maybe tonight or this weekend)

@chumbot doggo

@Ælis yay :)

@chumpbot kitten?

Well, seems like the @chumbot doesn't want to show dogs anymore ^^

I mean, it's true that cat are usually cuter :p

🎵 "Ahhhh Savinia koanichiawa" 🎵

xD

11:44 AM

@Ælis View it that way: Having nothing interpersonally struggling you at the moment is actually something good, isn't it? :P

@dhein Nah, it just means that you are not asking yourself the right question :p ("how can I be better?"). Or that I don't have any/enough interpersonal communication. But since I'm talking with my coworkers everyday, that's probably not it ^^

@Ælis Again: Thats your perspective then (Well and mine, too '^.^). But it remains dependend on the perspective :P

12:10 PM

Looks like a sand cat. They're so cute <3

Let's play Find the Cat.

@AJ found it!

One of my cats just booped the other one on the head

This one has low-resolution so it might be a challenging one.

@Belle lol

12:19 PM

I swear there's no cat in the second picture

Found the first one though

@Belle You know it would be pretty obvious once I tell you where it is.

Do you want a hint?

Is it the white thing at the front?

where?

You can upload a pic with a free-hand circle around it.

Oo

No, it isn't. But what if I tell you it is just a little up from your circle?

It's a cute little yellow kitten with white legs..

12:31 PM

@AJ oh! found it!

Good. Just upload a pic with a circle around it.

Darn it Mac! Where's the free hand option?!

Nice!

that wasn't easy :p

Glad to hear it was a challenging one. :P

So, tell me which one of my hints gave away?

12:37 PM

@AJ the fact that the cat was yellow and white :p

haha

Nice new ava @ava

@brug Thanks! :)

Can you spot the leopard?

It was on Twitter a while ago.

So, don't google it. Although, I know you would.

12:45 PM

Good!

heh, I'm good at this! :p

Does anyone here know how to use window.location.href to navigate from an angular page, for example app.example.com/angular/page to app.example.com, where app.example.com is not an angular page?

I don't know the first part of the url, the 'app' bit, I just know that it's the same as the current page

Ah, found it. It was surprisingly simple: window.location.href = '/'

@Belle x) nice you found it

Glad you found it. :P

I tried window.location.href = '' first, but that didn't work, because angular assumed it was an angular route

12:58 PM

@avazula Throwing a simple one for you

@AJ Found it!

Good.

shoooot I had so much trouble finding that last one!

you gotta do free-hand circles :)

@avazula Really or you're just kidding? :P

1:02 PM

@AJ no, I really struggled xD

lol. okay. Last one for the day.

honestly, i can't find anything on those pictures

my monitor has a weird color scheme too though

@AJ WHY?!

xD

1:03 PM

@avazula Let's save some fun for next day. :P

And I will be leaving from work very soon.

@AJ no, I mean, this one looks like a nightmare to find :p

ohh

Cause you got all the colors there. :P

@AJ I hate it

That could be interesting to test neural networks on those and see if they can find the freaking cat

haha

1:05 PM

Where's your talent now robot, huh?!

@avazula there is something like that to find wally/waldo, idk xd

@Belle @avazula gave up? ;P

I swear that's a cat

Nope. But you're close. ;)

This is how I feel

1:12 PM

Should I post the answer now?

Sure, unless @avazula wants to give it another go?

nah

this picture gives me anxiety

There you go.

@avazula I could swear there are absolutely no cat in here (and same for the other pictures)

I told you @Belle you were close.

1:13 PM

@AJ omg ...

That cat wasn't in the first picture! I swear!

._.

haha

lol

@AJ So where is the cat on this one?

No excuse will work. :P

1:14 PM

@AJ And on this other one?

Wait I will upload pictures with free-hand circles.

wanna laugh a bit?

how?

I placed a bid on a house and the only thing that's bothering me a bit is the kitchen, so I'm looking for a new one. I requested a brochure online yesterday but they were asking for my personal info, as in name, address, etc ... I knew I would get the brochure from my email so I gave my actual address, but filled in the rest with pseudonyms

1:18 PM

This morning I get a call: "Ms Zula? Would you like to meet and talk about your kitchen project?"

@AJ what even :p

@Ælis There you go.

@CaldeiraG ;P

It took me some time to remember I gave the name "Ava Zula" haha

lol

1:19 PM

x)

@AJ Thanks :) I must say though, that I don't like your game because I'm apparently very bad at it ><

^^

couldn't agree more

@Ælis Thanks. :P

Rainbacon

Alright, last day of my job :)

You can do it, @Rain!

@Belle Thanks!

1:31 PM

@Rainbacon Have fun!

@Ælis I plan to. The office manager brought in her panini press so that we could make grilled cheese for my goodbye lunch :)

@Rainbacon Oh, that seems nice :)

Rainbacon

1:50 PM

Indeed

Rainbacon

2:37 PM

One really nice thing is that with it being my last day, pretty much all I have to do is get this PR I've been working on merged

Q: How to tell someone to laugh decently

4:05 PM

diamonds, you should probably bump HNQ chat because it's been 9 days without activity there :D

Extroverted Main Man

7:12 PM

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Extroverted Main Man

8:33 PM

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Q: How to identify and approach persons of low income with the aim to help

I apologize in advance if this seems distasteful in any way, I'm genuinely trying to be helpful. I live in a low income area in the UK, however I am fairly comfortable financially. It pains me greatly to think of all of the every day struggles people/families on low income face. Especially when...

united-kingdom

9:07 PM

@ExtrovertedMainMan "I am unsure how I could consistently identify who could really use that help" -> That's kind of make me really uncomfortable. I don't want an IPS answer saying stuff like: "poor people are smelly, wear hoodies, have a beard, etc..." :/

El'endia Starman

*also applies to college students

@El'endiaStarman :p Also applies to me, except that my face doesn't produce hairs, so I don't have a beard

9:33 PM

@Ælis oh, that's a good point.. when I read that I was imagining people would answer with things like "person in front of you in a checkout line was asked to put some items back"

Mithical

@ExtrovertedMainMan MWAHAHAHAHAHA.

scohe001

@Mithical can you please laugh decently in my chatroom?

Mithical

@scohe001 Teeheeheehee.

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scohe001

Much better, thank you<3

user15026

snortgiggles

9:41 PM

@scohe001 @EmC Good thing that I Sandbox this question. Thanks to me you are cleaning up stuff :p

@Ælis :) your question looks pretty good imo!

could be misremembering but is this the same job when you from full to part time?

@EmC Yep

But people didn't really ask about it and to the few that did, I just said that it was because of my "tiredness issues"

ah ok, that was my next question :p

I'm good at reading minds when I know people :p

it might be worth mentioning that, as a potential angle for showing it is serious? idk, I don't have personal experience to back that up ;)

9:50 PM

@EmC I updated my question. Do you think that's good enough?

(not the whole question, just the part that we are currently talking about)

A: Sandbox for Proposed Questions

@Ælis yeah, that seems fine :)

Sandman

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Thanks for the feedback :)

@Sandman And you too Sandman :p

Extroverted Main Man

10:15 PM

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I'm in a writing group* and there's this girl who joined around the time I did. Unfortunately, she behaves quite eccentrically. Having some medical background I have strong suspicion that she has an Asperger's syndrome, which isn't a problem itself, but I start to notice how other members are s...

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