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12:02 AM
This one is not time travel: youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
 
@SpareOom He DID claim to be Australian. Jasper is not, AFAIK.
I could ask him a question that only an Australian would know the answer to. The problem is that I wouldn't know whether he got it right!
 
@DavidWallace I was just confused because Rob said hi to Jasper just as Temp arrived. Jasper has several accounts does not he?
 
I don't think he does. He changes his user name often though, to confuse us.
 
That's it then.
 
12:22 AM
Hello again.
So did Monica solve her intriguing checkmark problem?
 
Yes.
 
Because it was clearly visible in her screenshot—that was the last thing I saw.
So what was it?
 
She just has to look harder.
Or something.
 
Hahaha.
That's...silly.
 
Yeah.
 
12:23 AM
And I'm being generous.
Actually, what if the empty checkmark became a button, to turn into the current checked one after pressing it?
A button might be both more visible and more pressing.
 
I don't think a change is necessary.
 
But many people fail to accept answers.
 
shrugs
 
Possibly because they fail to think of it.
 
Maybe they're just über-lazy.
 
12:26 AM
Which could be because the checkmark is so inconspicuous.
 
@Cerberus Maybe she didn't realize it was a button because it wasn't highlighted.
 
It's possible, but I can't be bothered to care.
 
@Mahnax Absolutely. But making it more prominent could help a bit?
 
@Cerberus Sure.
 
@Cerberus For people who aren't used to voting, yes.
 
12:27 AM
@SpareOom Yeah, well, she didn't understand what we meant even when she was actively looking at it, and after she had looked at my screenshot—she said she didn't have what I had.
 
@Cerberus Oh, I missed that.
 
@SpareOom Well, I guess; but the voting button is more clearly a button.
 
@Cerb Are dress codes in schools enforced over there?
 
@Mahnax None exist.
That I have ever heard of.
 
@Cerberus So people can show up donning incredibly skimpy attire, and that's OK?
 
12:31 AM
If you're wearing Nazu paraphernalia, or a bikini, someone might ask you to change your dress. Otherwise, it is not the school's business.
 
Interesting.
Here, girls are not supposed to wear yoga pants or short shorts. But noöne cares when they do anyways.
Guys are supposed to pull up their pants, but noöne cares about that either.
 
@Mahnax Depends on how skimpy. A bikini would be too much. Anything that isn't clearly a swimming suit or underwear may go unchallenged, though some teachers might comment on it or ask you to change, who knows? I don't think an incident like that ever happened at my school, not that other kids knew anyway.
 
@Cerberus I see.
 
@Mahnax Oh, that's funny.
@Mahnax No such thing here.
You wouldn't believe how sexy some of the girls are dressed. And many, many boys clearly display their underwear.
Sexy as in high heels, make-up, deep cleavage.
And tight.
And short skirt.
 
I think it's funny how men wear their pants low.
 
12:34 AM
It's silly.
 
It is, but have you ever heard the origin of that behaviour?
 
About the confiscated belts in prison?
I've never heard it actually scientifically confirmed.
 
Yes, that's the general consensus.
 
I heard a different reason.
 
It may be true.
Oh?
Haha, I don't believe that at all.
 
12:36 AM
Nor do I.
 
They wear their pants low because they crap their pants to keep from being raped.
 
I love coffee and I love tea
 
I'm going to delete that, because it's a black mark on my record.
 
I love java, java hava java hava
 
Eww.
 
12:36 AM
i made this song just now
 
I don't believe that either.
 
@SpareOom Oh, yuck.
 
Hello Nick.
 
@Mahnax I suspect it was much paler on her screen. She said it was visible in the posted screenshot but not the original screen. Which is why I thought that Imgur had done some dark magic (literally) when converting BMP to PNG.
 
@DavidWallace I see.
 
12:38 AM
This was explained to a guy I knew before he went to prison as a way to keep from getting raped. It is gross, but maybe the better alternative?
 
@DavidWallace Hmm that would be extremely weird.
I don't believe it.
She didn't seem a very...ordered person.
 
She didn't seem to know computers very well.
 
@Cerberus Well, I certainly didn't order her.
 
@SpareOom You seriously believe this? Can you imagine what a prison would be like if that were true? And what the guards would do? And do you think this would become a popular symbol of prison? Naaaaaaaah.
@DavidWallace I tried.
Didn't work.
 
@Cerberus I believe he was told. I don't know if it's true that people practice that.
 
12:40 AM
@SpareOom I don't believe one word of it. It was a sick joke.
 
@SpareOom I don't think it would require much practice.
 
@DavidWallace I tried the preview, too much hassle.
 
@DavidWallace I'm American. I can spell it practice if I want. It's the only one we have. :P
 
Aww.
 
@DavidWallace Wait. Where was a BMP involved?
 
12:41 AM
@SpareOom That's not what I meant! You're not still bitter about my "palate" remark from yesterday are you?
 
@DavidWallace No, I'm not bitter. :D
 
@ΜετάEd Well, I assume she saved it as a BMP from Paint, then uploaded it to Imgur. I may be wrong.
 
Just ignorant.
 
My cousin was told that fried jellyfish was the best thing in Chinese cuisine, contrary to expectations, and that she absolutely had to try it, when she was planning her trip.
Turned out the jellyfish was not so great, to put it mildly.
 
@DavidWallace Conversion to BMP may be what brought out the color. That is, if I remember right, an indexed image file type.
 
12:43 AM
@Cerberus I got at least 15 words into that remark before I realised that it wasn't about not getting raped in prison.
 
@ΜετάEd Then why didn't she see it in Paint?
 
@Cerberus She never said she didn't.
 
@DavidWallace Maybe a little gun-shy though.
 
Because she didn't reopen it in Paint after saving it out.
 
@DavidWallace Hehe. Well, it's close.
@DavidWallace But she would have said so immediately, if she saw it in Paint.
Then again, most people would, but...
 
12:44 AM
@SpareOom Sorry, I was in a nasty mood.
 
@ΜετάEd Now I'm going to read back.
 
@Cerberus She would only have seen it in Paint if she had gone back and re-opened the BMP.
 
@DavidWallace I didn't get that from the comment. It went totally over my head until my second error, which someone else corrected.
 
@ΜετάEd OK, to, from, whatever. I was never any good at prepositions. But she seemed adamant that it was different on her screen after it appeared here as a screenshot.
 
I thought it was punny.
 
12:45 AM
I think I missed your second error.
 
@DavidWallace She said she could see the checkbutton on meta, not on main.
And that makes sense if the problem was contrast on her monitor.
 
@DavidWallace I messed up the correction on that one too, I think.
@ΜετάEd Did she fix the contrast, or is she going to just accept answers on meta?
 
2 hours ago, by Monica
I don't
@ΜετάEd She didn't see it in her own screenshot.
 
@SpareOom Don't know.
 
Then she said she saw it in Mahnax's edited version, which has the exact same colour.
And both are png's.
 
12:47 AM
I just read MetaEd's remark about Axel Neumann. It's probably bang on.
 
@Cerberus Right. But then she transformed the original 16- or 24-bit color screenshot to an indexed BMP when she saved it out as a file. And I bet she never even considered reopening the BMP file to see what that did to it, before she uploaded it.
 
@ΜετάEd Probably not; but she still saw it in Mahnax's version.
 
@ΜετάEd We shall probably never know the exact sequence of events.
 
I am sceptical.
Something's off.
@DavidWallace I am sure.
Wow, I can't believe how little I'm eating, and I'm still not hungry.
 
My mother would say "your stomach has shrunk". She is not a doctor.
 
12:50 AM
But right.
My mother says that too.
 
That's suspicious.
 
Indeed.
 
Has anyone ever seen your mother and my mother in the same room at the same time? Maybe we're brothers.
 
Oh, dear.
It is possible.
We didn't grow up far apart.
Only 20k km.
 
David tries to remember whether his mother looked pregnant when he was 11-12
 
12:52 AM
If you take away the k's, we're neighbours.
 
guys how do u improve my english
 
Where in Australia do you live?
 
Cali4nia
 
I would suggest that you join a public library and read as many books as you can.
 
im kiddin
yeah i like reading books
I sometimes can't communicate with my mom so I have to use body gestures
i know it sounds funny but it really does happen..
i think my brain isn't good for learning languages..
 
1:06 AM
@DavidWallace Yeah, but not for me. I ain't that fast. It's become a twitch game.
 
Perhaps, Are there anyone else from Australia?
 
@Robusto The twitch doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
 
It always was a twitch game. I just used to be able to play it two years ago.
 
Guys, i think i'm a r-txxd
sorry if it was inappropriate but im desperate to know how i can improve my english
 
16 mins ago, by David Wallace
I would suggest that you join a public library and read as many books as you can.
 
1:14 AM
sorry, i missed out on that one, i'm not good at paying attention
 
17 mins ago, by TemporaryNickName
yeah i like reading books
 
Guys, would it be funny if i attend to English college even though my first language is English
 
Nope, you definitely responded to it.
 
Sorry, I have the short term memory
 
I need a bigger pipe.
 
1:22 AM
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It looks like it will take me eight days to download the Google Ngram trigraphs.
@DavidWallace Thanks.
And I can see I'm going to have to thread my search tool.
 
You shouldn't needle to.
 
You have a point.
And eye see it.
 
@ΜετάEd Wow.
How large are they?
 
200 files at 400 Mb each.
 
1:28 AM
And that takes 8 days?
 
And it would be nice to get the 2-grams, another 100 files.
 
That's 80 GB?
 
@Cornbreadninja (Did I spell that right?) Some middle schools are 6-8, with High school 9-12. Some junior high are 7-9, with high school 10-12.
 
Don't know why I wrote trigraphs. They're trigrams.
 
What are trigrams anyway?
Things that are written thrice?
Or in thrain?
 
1:29 AM
Yeah, I'm looking at over 100 GB overall.
Word triples. They're used by the Google Ngram Viewer.
 
Is Google slow, or are you?
 
I think I am.
 
Can't you find a faster torrent?
Oh.
@ΜετάEd What are those?
 
My limiting factor is probably my raw data rate.
@Cerberus Ever used Google Ngram Viewer?
 
What's your score on Speedtest.net?
@ΜετάEd Yes?
 
1:31 AM
This is the raw data.
 
I assumed as much.
 
But what are these word triplets?
 
Take a look at that page: it will explain it better than me.
 
The data are somehow stored in short sequences of words?
I never bothered to look up how their database worked.
 
1:34 AM
These are the data in an export format. Behind Google Ngram Viewer they are certainly indexed in some clever way to support rapid search.
 
Okay.
 
They break the whole dataset down into files containing the phrases you can search on, starting with single-word phrases (1-grams), then going up from there.
Sequential searches are taking a hell of a long time, too. I'll have to build an index.
 
> match_count, page_count, volume_count
Isn't this what they mean?
 
Yes. For a given phrase/year pair, the record gives the match count, page count, and volume count.
How many times is the phrase used that year? How many pages have that phrase on it that year? How many books have that phrase in them that year?
 
Yes.
 
1:39 AM
That's my output.
With very, very incomplete data.
In about eight days I should be able to do more interesting investigation.
And now ... off to home.
 
@ΜετάEd Wow!
Colourful.
Pretty cool.
 
2:10 AM
@SpareOom you did! I I completely agree with this assessment. My own experience was 7-8 middle, 9-12 high.
@Mahnax I am learning python the hard way
That guy's site is pretty neat. Cussy, but neat.
@ΜετάEd do you have a version where the pair names aren't cut off, or did I miss that?
 
2:36 AM
@cornbreadninja Cool.
@Cerb you around?
 
@Mahnax Yo.
 
@Cerberus I have a question involving Greek. You might find it odd. I certainly do.
 
Ask away!
 
It's just a picture that I saw somewhere.
I'll be deleting that.
 
So it can be between husband and wife.
But mainly used between man and God.
 
2:42 AM
Interesting, OK.
Thanks.
 
So it is sort of a religious term, apparently.
I don't know how often or where it occurs in the NT.
 
No, not another Bible discussion. We've had our quota for the day.
 
It's not a Bible discussion, it was a question about a Greek word.
It's over now.
 
It means, neighbourly love. Looking out for the people around you.
 
I actually think perhaps all those quotations in the dictionary are Bible books.
 
2:49 AM
It's broader than friendly love, brotherly love or sexual love.
No, Chrome, "neighbourly" is not a spelling error!
 
@Cerberus Most of them are.
 
punches Chrome again
 
Ah! I've found out how to fix it.
But it really SHOULD default to my Locale settings.
 
I wonder how perplexed my English teacher will be if I switch over to British English completely.
 
Cool. I now have British English. NZ English was on the list, but I don't trust it.
 
2:53 AM
I'll start using connexion, manoeuvre, etc.
 
My grandfather always insisted that "connection" was a spelling error.
 
kyrie eleison
 
He probably will!
 
I already try to use certain elements of BrE style.
 
Go on, switch to NZ English. Start using Māorisms.
Begin all your emails with "Kia ora" and end them with "Arohanui".
 
2:57 AM
Nah, that's too nonstandard. I won't be able to argue for that as easily.
 
@DavidWallace He was right.
Connection is a malformation.
Just like reflection.
 
I don't know what his stand on "reflection" was. But he was right about most things.
 
κύριε ελέησον
 
@Mahnax Why would you have to argue for it? Just do it!
 
@DavidWallace She'll dock marks, and I need those.
So I have to be able to support my usages and spellings.
 
2:59 AM
The word "kapai" appeared on our online weather forecast page recently.
 
Kapai is a valid word according to my spell-checker.
 
Hmm, I wouldn't end an email to a teacher with "arohanui". But you should TOTALLY use "kia ora".
 

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