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12:16 AM
Is addicting ever right? I hate it so.
 
12:43 AM
As opposed to addictive?
 
I don't think it is possible, because the verb to addict is (almost?) never used in the active voice.
There's only addictive and the past participle addicted, I would say.
 
12:58 AM
So many people say addicting.
-_-
@Cerb have you cast your close vote for this?
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Q: "the class of 1991" versus "the class of '91"

ljenniferwhich one is used? and if you have "the class of 2001" is it more proper the former or the latter ("the class of 2001" or "the class of '01" or "the class of '1")? and are there differences between spoken and written english?

 
1:21 AM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No, because those questions are not duplicates.
The OP asks for advice about a different situations and motivates why they are different.
Just keep it open.
Just like most of her other questions about dates.
@Mari-LouA: Don't you think that is a little rude? Would you like other people to tell you when your questions "are" boring? — Cerberus 6 secs ago
 
You don't find them similar?
 
Sure they are similar. So what?
You're also similar, to e.g. Mitch.
Doesn't make me want to close you.
 
We don't even have the same plumbing.
 
shrugs
 
What, we're both white Americans and that's good enough for you?
 
1:29 AM
For starters, you're both humans. That should be a close reason. puts on glasses, browses dark corners of FAQ
By the way, I tried to convince a group of people this weekend that perhaps not everything about America was bad and inferior and broken. You should be proud of me, because I kept thinking of you people!
 
I said, "look at Corny! She hasn't got the same plumbing as Mitch, but she makes funny advertising tunes and speaks good English".
 
2:31 AM
@Reg: Be not afraid.
@Cerberus It was the least you could do. No, really. The least.
And so it goes. Or went.
Fin.
 
 
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3:43 AM
@Robusto and so will you. Soon, I suppose.
 
good evening
 
 
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4:52 AM
Hi
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hows it going?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 He is in NZ.
@DavidWallace lives in NZ.
 
5:23 AM
Guys I took the TOEIC exam yesterday. It was extremely easy, almost easy as eating a Bigmac.
But I was quite amazed how many people applied for this easy exam XD...
 
5:54 AM
@EnglishMaster Congrats... Hope you will fare well! :)
 
 
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Jez
8:13 AM
There was an earwig in my tea yesterday :-O
now, every cup of tea i have im afraid there will be one
 
8:49 AM
Eww, forget about "earwig" but think of you had some good nutritious protein drink
 
Jez
:-\
i didnt actually eat it
Bear Grylls would have
 
but he would have had a cup of piss
 
Gosh, that person would eat anything except for legs of desk because he needs a desk to eat bugs
 
 
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10:06 AM
Good mewning!
Not only the Pope is softening towards minorities, but even Erdogan!
He wants to give Kurds more rights.
 
Jez
softening?
i thought he railed back on any 'softening' (not that it matters, most so-called Catholics don't care what he says)
 
Did he?
He seemed to be softening up a bit a couple of days ago.
The previous Pope was a lot worse anyway...
 
Jez
i don't know why people waste time rating the current pope
they're all just figureheads of something that is fundamentally wrong; the Catholic church
 
Meh.
Wrong, or irrelevant?
 
Jez
the idea that the pope can "reform" things is laughably dumb
wrong
in all senses of the term
 
10:22 AM
However that may be, there are still a lot of Catholics, and it is better if the Pope encourages them to be more liberal, isn't it?
 
Jez
it doesn't seem to matter. most people calling themselves Catholic seem to disagree with the pope
what would be best is if those people were encouraged to stop calling themselves Catholics
the only way the Church gets "reformed" is kicking and screaming against its will, not by some benevolent pope
 
@Jez At least a great mean disagree with him, yes; but there are still many millions who don't.
 
your a potato
 
@Jez Why not?
 
i taught so
 
10:23 AM
Slow reform is usually the most stable.
 
Jez
because for one thing the pope doesn't have the power
 
@Scorpion How dare you insult me so!!
 
im insulting you all using bad grammer :D @cerberus
 
@Jez Power? Influence.
 
Jez
for another, he's going to be an old man who is the product of a bunch of old men echoing each other's positions on moral issues, resulting in zero change
 
10:24 AM
@Scorpion I'm in shock!
 
@cerberus :D
guys can you take a look at my question; im in desperate need of answers D:
 
Beggar!
 
posted on September 30, 2013 by sgdi

I once had a raspberry pi It ran python and emacs (no vi) But one day it broke Letting out magic smoke The poor little thing had just died

 
don't want to spam here though :(
 
> Because a microblog message is about as long as the typical newspaper headline and subhead, this makes it perfect for transmitting newswire headlines.
That one didn’t last long.
 
10:26 AM
@Scorpion I think perhaps you should read more novels and websites about academic subjects.
@tchrist What?
 
Jez
@Cerberus yeah right. he's god representative on earth, as long as he keeps saying roughly the same stuff as before. otherwise, he's obviously got a faulty god-hotline.
 
@Cerberus This question.
 
Jez
oh, and if you disagree with him, feel free to just keep calling yourself a Catholic anyway, despite that term clearly now having absolutely no meaning
 
shrugs
 
Most scrawlings can be reduced by about a third with no harm done.
Indeed, the opposite of harm is incurred.
 
Jez
10:29 AM
oh and anyone who thinks that sending messages to one questionable human after another would be god's best or chosen way to communicate with humanity is too stupid to live
 
@tchrist It doesn't say the same thing as the original, but the original was wrong.
@Jez That is not in question.
 
I thought so, too.
"Perfect medium for consuming" != "perfect for transmitting"
I don’t know if I believe it, in any event.
 
He says Twitter is also perfect for reading the articles, not just the headlines.
 
I’m sure you’ve seen those horizontally scrolling newswire headline doohickeys.
Oh, that's not true then.
 
So what he says makes no sense.
In fact, he only says it's perfect for articles.
 
10:32 AM
Oh, he was talking about complete articles not just headlines. How crazy.
Unless they’re all hotlinked to the underlying article of substance.
As a person who sometimes finds himself overly constrained by the would-be generous length limits on chat messages imposed on us here by The Powers That Be, I find the very notion of constraining my thoughts and my discourse to some artificially truncated medium about as enticing as embedding a philosophical treatise in a Scrabble game.
 
10:51 AM
Of course.
 
 
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12:11 PM
@TRiG OK sure. I think the entire phrase "any oracle would have foreseen that" must give me that impression.
@tchrist I'm going to starts an internet service called 'tli' (Pronounced 'twee') which is a micro tweet. You're limited to 3 characters to get your message across, because anything less is just too radical.
 
12:32 PM
Hi.
 
@Mitch Am I limited to Basic Multilingual Plane?
Psst! I’ve started a trend: pass it on.
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A: Is inbuilt a word ? is it alright to use it or should I use "built in"?

tchristIn the Insular English of Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales), Ireland (both the Republic and the Northern part), and surrounding bits like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, the preferred form is in-built, hyphenated like that. That’s the way the OED has it. Chiefly as ˈin-ˌbuilt p...

 
@MattЭллен You've said too much already.
@tchrist I was thinking of limiting the letters to Fortran 65 variables names but realized the quickest way to tell everybody to go to hell is just use ascii.
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RADIX-50
 
But relatedly I just saw this:

[FORTRAN Variable Rules
...
Only one name may be used for each FORTRAN variable.
...
](http://www.eng.iastate.edu/efmd/fcav.htm)
As in, maybe you could use more? To do otherwise would be the programming language 'RussianNovel'.
@tchrist That confused the crap out of me until I figured out it's 50 octal (i.e. reading over and over until I came up with the idea myself).
 
12:50 PM
@Mitch Isn’t that cool, though!?
@Robusto Dudote, that’s my line: “There is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved by adding a level of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many levels of indirection. See ELOOP: Too many levels of symbolic links.”
 
1:07 PM
GDF Microsoft. Damn them to hell forever and ever, hallelujah hallelujah, amen.
 
1:22 PM
@Mitch At least at one time you could map two FORTRAN variable names to the same storage.
8.2 EQUIVALENCE Statement
An EQUIVALENCE statement is used to specify the sharing of storage units by two or more entities in a program unit. This causes association of the entities that share the storage units.
If the equivalenced entities are of different data types, the EQUIVALENCE statement does not cause type conversion or imply mathematical equivalence. If a variable and an array are equivalenced, the variable does not have array properties and the array does not have the properties of a variable.
 
2:01 PM
I've just been eating unwashed rocket from a bag. Will that kill me?
the bag specifically said to wash it thoroughly first
 
What's rocket?
 
some kind of leafy green
Eruca sativa (syn. E. vesicaria subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell., Brassica eruca L.) is an edible annual plant, commonly known as salad rocket, roquette, rucola, rugula, colewort, or, in the United States, arugula. Salad rocket (arugula) is sometimes conflated with Diplotaxis tenuifolia, the perennial wall rocket, another plant of the Brassicaceae family, which in the past was used in the same manner. Salad rocket is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal in the west to Lebanon and Turkey in the east. Eruca sativa differs from E. vesicaria in having ...
Oh, I see you uhmurikuns misspell it arugula
pokes chat
 
2:21 PM
We have it growing in our front garden. It does very well. It's perennial and we basically have to hack it back where we want to grow other things.
Most evenings we have a salad that incorporates it.
 
Oh, arugula. I thought that sounded familiar.
 
@MattЭллен That's pretty sharp. I like it in sandwiches, but I'm not sure I could eat it alone.
 
@TRiG I like to put it on pizza (after cooking). Also, Tesco rocket seems to be some weak sauce.
 
I'm so hungry.
 
not lunch time yet?
how's the office today, @Kit?
 
2:36 PM
Crazy.
I have a phone interview later though!
 
!!
yay!
got much butterflies?
 
@KitFox Phone interview sounds good, no ~opportunity~ for cleavage-rampage. :P
 
Yes, I'm nervous. This one is actually a really good fit. It has everything I want in a position.
Including some leadership and growth opportunities.
And I have been out of school long enough that I can't remember the proper lingo anymore.
So I'm trying to Wiki really fast.
 
ace :D
we should probably stop bothering you then!
 
ok we should exercise you with some HR/bs questions now to get you warm.
 
2:41 PM
Yes! Yes!
 
What are your weaknesses?
 
What problems did you come across in your last project?
 
@JohanLarsson You are a shitty interviewer.
 
@KitFox that answer will work with some but I think answer bs with bs is the standard approach
 
2:43 PM
@MattЭллен Assholes. Working with assholes.
The former project lead just showed up panting in my doorway, and apologized for being late and wanted to know if we were still meeting.
 
@KitFox And how did you overcome working with assholes? What did you learn in the process?
 
ok, you have picked your image, gotta stay consistent now
 
@KitFox hahahaha
 
In my last project, the biggest challenge I faced was keeping a steady work plan despite shifting priorities.
The most important thing I learned from it was to make sure, when I felt conflicted, that I could step back and get a view of the bigger picture.
Staying focused on what we were trying to accomplish helped me make progress toward those goals, even when the details changed from week to week.
 
2:48 PM
@KitFox that is pretty good
How do you handle stress?
How do you handle conflicts?
 
@JohanLarsson For this position, it's important for you to understand that I have very little experience leading a team of developers. For my consulting business, I have naturally taken stakeholders through all phases of development, but while I am comfortable interacting with users from vastly different domains, I have never collaborated directly with team members who did similar work.
I'm excited at the prospect of learning from the experiences of other developers.
I handle stress by bottling up my frustration and pretending everything is fine.
 
yay! me too :D
 
@KitFox maybe you can piggyback that this is one of the reasons you applied. Because you want to develop your leadership skills jada, jada. dunno if correct use of piggyback
 
that is the correct use of piggyback
 
I have already said so in my job application, so yes.
 
2:51 PM
oh, well it should be "piggyback that onto one the reasons..."
 
close enough but ty sir :D
 
imagine the original reason giving the new reason a piggyback ride
 
No, no, not piggyback. You're thinking of something a lot sharper.
@KitFox s/handle/create/
:-)
 
3:09 PM
@KitFox you need more bs?
 
I need lunch. bbl
 
3:25 PM
@tchrist Sorry, didn't do enough patent research.
 
Wow. Just got +1 on a downvote deleted that I cast last November.
I love when a good plan comes together.
 
Every so often @Kitfox goes back and cleans up some pretty old pending stuff.
 
Boy, this boy can sing.
It's like the voice of an angel².
And hello.
 
@Cerberus nice
 
3:33 PM
nods
Sometimes, the typical boy solo can be tacky...but not this one.
 
the song is not that great but his voice is
 
Yeah...
I've just listened to his adult voice. Not nearly as special, although he is still handsome.
 
Not bad.
But Jean-Baptiste Maunier was better...
 
4:20 PM
Alors, je pars.
À bientôt.
 
4:38 PM
@MετάEd pretends she doesn't know what you mean
 
5:30 PM
swears profusely
 
What's the matter?
 
phone interview in progress
 
Guys, I have a question
 
but you are the master O-O
 
Could you tell me the technical term of grammar used in following sentence?
"Weather was sunnier *than predicted* on the news".
I just want to read more about it.
Yeah, I know all about England.
Kidding
 
5:35 PM
I have absolutely no idea, let's wait for the pros
 
I think it is either participle adjective or adverb
I think it's participle adverb
I wish I had food stamps program in Korea
So I can simply apply for it and buy groceries without me having to pay from my own money.
 
@EnglishMaster What, that it's a comparative?
@EnglishMaster Is that how you think it works in the US?
@EnglishMaster Oh. I dunno.
wtf is an "assigned application domain area"?
 
6:06 PM
@KitFox, A user over ELL informed that his account has been deleted in ELU but as he is new around SE, he does not know how to contact with you mods for some clarification/explanation. I don't know if this is appropriate or not, but if possible, please give some explanation, as he has already raised a meta in ELL.
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Q: Why has my account on ELU been deleted?

Atsuto NagatomoI have a question. Some days ago my account has been suspended because the crackpot reason of 'low quality questions', but today, just at the seventh and last day of the suspension period, someone has definitively deleted it. Why has my account on ELU been deleted? Oh my God! What have I done ...

 
He knows. Don't be fooled.
 
@KitFox I see.
 
Aha! I knew that was the culprit! :)
 
I don't know what you are talking about.
 
@terdon For reduction in his rep ;-)
 
6:09 PM
just noticed I'd lost rep for my answers to his questions, as they're all now deleted
 
I'm sure you don't. :)
 
I assure you, there is nothing to see here.
 
move along, now, move along
 
@Hugo I know this feeling. Irritating.
 
why was his account deleted?
 
6:11 PM
@Hugo the mods aren't allowed to comment on that
 
@Hugo Looks like he knows and it's private!
2 mins ago, by KitFox
He knows. Don't be fooled.
 
oh, ok
 
poor @KitFox, I'm sure she's seething.
 
@terdon, are you allowed to comment?
 
I could perhaps suggest some reasons why a user's account could be deleted, but I couldn't say why any particular user was specifically deleted.
 
6:12 PM
Yes, I'm not a mod. I also have no idea so I can't comment.
@KitFox what are your suggestions then? For purely academic purposes of course.
 
@terdon I think so.
 
@Hugo I can say I had some annoying exchanges with the missing user but I have no idea about the specifics of why he would have been deleted. I can say that he seemed to take every downvote as a personal affront.
 
Well. The user might have requested to have his account deleted.
 
BDW @KitFox I was just wondering isn't SE meant to be democratic? So why a particular user is deleted is meant to be hidden?
 
Or the user might have violated the terms of service.
 
6:16 PM
Is there any particular reason?
 
It's not that they are hidden; they don't exist anymore.
So there isn't any name to associate with posts, etc.
There is no more profile.
Etc.
 
well, there is a user51029, for example
 
@KitFox No, I mean the reason behind his deletion; is it meant not to be disclosed to common audience? If so, why?
 
No, it's not for us to disclose.
Because if it is a user request, the user has a right to privacy. If it is a TOS violation, we don't discuss disciplinary actions.
 
@KitFox Okay, seems logical and fair enough.
 
6:20 PM
so possibly a TOS violation
 
@KitFox AFAIK user deletion is a network-wide thing. So it can't be controlled by a single site's mods, which means that SE themselves had to be involved right?
 
No.
It is only site-wide.
At least, for us. The community mods probably have a farther reach.
 
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Q: How can I delete my account?

SauronHow can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s) and what happens to content I've posted when my account gets deleted? For more information, see "How do I delete my account?" in the Help Center. Return to FAQ index

(this comment keeps timing out: ) well, I don't think the user requested deletion, judging by the ELL meta, and there's no "please delete me" in the cached About Me
 
@Hugo What's your point?
 
there's no "please delete me" in the about box
 
6:23 PM
@Hugo Well he claimed his questions are voted well, so I see his claim is quite true!
 
Yes, a shame really.
 
@KitFox how come some of his questions have been deleted but not others?
 
I can't remember the rule. There is some threshold for deletion of content. At a certain point, the user is just dissociated from it.
 
I can see some questions with an anonymous userXXXXX but others that have just been deleted and rep lost
 
I think it is mentioned in the meta.so question I linked to, something about upvoted posts remaining.
@KitFox so this deletion had nothing to do with our mods but came from the powers that be?
 
6:36 PM
The one that terdon can see was a question with negative votes, which is why it was deleted despite having upvoted answers.
 
Sorry, I had not linked the meta.so post:
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Q: Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted

Mad ScientistCurrently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user himself. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think it is a good idea to throw away all of the votes just because the user is deleted. Votes are locked ...

 
@terdon None of us did the deleting. That came from TPTB.
 
OK
 
spits out coffee grounds Ah, so that's why that little ring is on this reusable K-cup.
I feel like I haven't talked to @Matt in ages.
And I have a phone interview in 15 minutes.
sulks
 
@KitFox the other day people were posting espresso porn here and you drink from K-cups?
 
6:41 PM
I know nothing about any espresso porn.
 
@KitFox espresso porn:
Sep 17 at 3:06, by Mahnax
I mean, if people are using Encores for espresso…
 
Wow, that's sweet.
 
Innit though?
 
@tchrist It took me another while to figure out where the extra bits get squeezed out from.
@MετάEd Right, therefore the programming difficulties are like keeping characters straight in a Russian Novel, where everybody has their given name, their nickname, their patronymic, and what people call you, and when people are yelling 'hey, watch out for that runaway carriage before it...ah... oh well'.
 
I thought I would point out this comment as well.
This is good advice. Unfortunately, I think users can only respond once to a private message, and cannot initiate them otherwise. — Kit 28 secs ago
 
6:56 PM
@KitFox What if you forgot to say something? I need to respond again! Please please please.
 
7:12 PM
swayback? No, that's for horses. silverback? that's for gorillas. piggyknee? ooh ooh I got it...

No, No not razorback, You're thinking of a rash you get from shaving.
 
7:42 PM
eeee!
pants
 
I just had a great phone interview.
I think.
I mean, it must have been, since she wants me to come down and meet in person.
That's good, right?
 
!!!
Is your low-cut blouse clean?
 
No, but I got a ruffly tanktop titty shirt might could work.
 
imagines all the titties
May I see you in the other room?
 
7:58 PM
Sorry, I gotta run for home. Catch up with you later.
 
@KitFox I know! we seem to keep missing each other.
CU
 
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