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12:53 AM
makes sense that I should type chat.stackexchange.com and see a picture of a cat.
I think Yoichi Oishi's questions are so adorable
I could answer them day and night with a big smile.
 
 
8 hours later…
8:51 AM
@Cerberus ... or it was spelled differently back then!
@Robusto yeah, what the heck. Frankfurter Allgemeine with images. In color. On the front page. The end is nigh.
 
 
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11:59 AM
Don’t we have a meta question somewhere about this?
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A: Guidelines / limits on code formatting in non-programming SE communities

tchristUse /phonemics/ and [phonetics], not kʰɻæp̚< The correct way to use IPA is to use slashes to delimit broad phonemic transcriptions and to use square brackets to delimit narrow phonetic transcriptions. So for example, the word peel might be: Phonemically /pil/ for all speakers. Phonetically [...

The guy seems to have gotten chewed out for using 𝚏𝚞𝚐𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 on Linguistics and is seeking exoneration for his shitty typography.
And no, I was not the chewer.
 
@terdon Looks more like a football star to me.
 
12:29 PM
@tchrist hey quit stealing my stuff. I posted these lobsters like a year ago.
 
Yes, but mine are hyperprawns.
 
Ain't got nothing. And now you go and re-sell them for a one full star. No fair.
 
I’ve decided Martha (1) lives in Peoria and (2) has never been in the back kitchen of a Red Lobster® Restaurant chain.
Nor eaten scampi.
In fact, I believe she is @Mitch’s husband.
Or maybe vice versa.
 
MSE is dead to me. I care not about it or its practices. Or practitioners.
 
@Robusto It’s from Linguistics.SE
It got promoted to MSE.
 
12:38 PM
I don't care how it got there.
 
Noobmoted.
@Robusto okay okay here's 1000 roubles. Do you care now?
 
And we have a skumbnull who thinks 𝚏𝚞𝚐𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 is k3w1.
 
@RegDwigнt 1000 roubles? Isn't that equivalent to someone's two cents' worth?
 
It is the same issue as on ELU.
 
@Robusto Yes.
 
12:40 PM
It just is not appropriate to use 𝚏𝚞𝚐𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 for IPA.
People over-Lawler.
 
Right. You must use Comic Sans.
 
They like to scream and shout.
 
Is there a monospaced version of Comic Sans?
I would totally buy it.
 
For ZWE$100,000,000,000.
 
Apr 23 at 11:33, by Robusto
How to express the proportion of office managers who do not use Comic Sans for posting notes above the sink in the kitchen . . . I think zero comes close.
 
12:41 PM
Manager's gotta manage.
 
I want to put a stickie up there: "Please do not use Comic Sans for posting messages above the sink. Thanks." And with a smiley face.
 
Look, they do not even know what the heck you're talking about.
That's why them's using it in the first place.
 
Time for them to learn.
Otherwise they will go through like thinking they're doing no harm.
 
If by learn you mean flog you for your elitist knowledge.
 
That is why I plan to do it covertly.
 
12:44 PM
Buy some Black Ops.
 
@RegDwigнt What, from Ethiopia? Amerika has only White Cops.
 
Too far, you can get some dirt cheap from Harlem.
No wait, is there any black people left in Harlem or is it all white MoMA jerks.
 
Snow is completely gone here. Not even the huge snowplow tailings remain.
 
I've not been keeping up with them developments.
 
Next week we will have upper 70s (mid-20s for you metric buffs).
 
12:48 PM
See, we're so much younger.
Use Celsius, live longer.
 
80s coming up here, but had snow down to 6 kilofoots last night.
 
@RegDwigнt Inexperienced is the word you're looking for.
Once you can appreciate the difference, you'll switch back to the humanist temp scale.
 
I've never once looked for a word.
 
Lies.
 
Words come to me, I have to fend them off.
Aug 22 '12 at 20:24, by RegDwight АΑA
@tchrist lies, damn lies, and tchrist.
 
12:49 PM
Lies come to you too. And we have to fend them off.
 
You don't have to. Technically.
 
My public demands it.
 
Your public uses Comic Sans.
 
The hillsides are white above me, but some places in the mountains got upwards of half a millimile of snow last night.
 
@tchrist I forgot to say that that one image of the snowy canyon was spectacular.
 
12:51 PM
I wonder if hipsters are getting tattoos in Comic Sans these days.
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The orange and the white were striking.
@Robusto yes, in Comic Sans hanzi.
But they still say "buy milk and bread".
That part will never change.
 
@Robusto Mispolen.
 
"Buy unpasteurized milk and gluten-free bread" is what a hipster tattoo would say.
 
Lost in translation.
 
@tchrist I'm coining a term.
 
12:53 PM
Cut down on the population explosion: feed your children unpasteurized milk.
 
Mi spolen, ur spolen, thier spolen.
 
@tchrist regular milk cuts down on the population alright.
Not healthy for us at all.
 
@RegDwigнt Tell that to the veals.
 
I am too busy talking to viscachas.
 
12:55 PM
Bizcocho (Spanish pronunciation: [bisˈkotʃo]) is the name given in the Spanish-speaking world to a wide range of pastries, cakes or cookies. The exact product to which the word bizcocho is applied varies widely depending on the region and country. For instance, in Spain bizcocho is exclusively used to refer to sponge cake. In turn, in Uruguay, most buttery flaky pastry including croissants are termed bizcocho, whilst sponge cake is called bizcochuelo. In turn, in Chile, Dominican Republic or Bolivia bizcocho refers to a sweet dough (masa) baked with local ingredients, not dissimilar from the bizcocho...
 
Oh yeah, business cars, I've heard of these.
En Barcelona hay una fábrica de bizcochos, la Sociedad Europea de Automóviles del Turismo.
 
Bis coche is what you call for when the first taxi won’t hold everybody.
 
Don’t drive that one to Ibiza.
 
It would get wet.
@RegDwigнt Did anybody ever, anywhere ever, think that vehicle was cool? I mean besides hipsters?
 
1:07 PM
I don't know.
But that's the thing, it's so hideous it would be totally cool if it actually were in production somewhere sometime.
 
Side note: hipsters are just the new wave of the New Wave of 40 years ago.
 
Alas, it's just a prototype. And anyone can come up with a hideous prototype.-
 
Yeah, no points if it don't go into production.
 
@Robusto everything new is well-forgotten old.
 
@RegDwigнt And ship them.
See software releases.
 
1:09 PM
T28 Prototype.
 
I want to get to the bottom of this "cloud" thing. When someone like Microsoft or IBM talks about their "cloud" I think they just mean their server farm. I mean, the cloud is the whole frickin' Internet.
 
When someone like Microsoft or IBM talks about their "cloud", I think they mean their judgment.
 
Everyone wants to live on Cloud 9 these days.
 
C-loud goes to eleven.
But I must be running. CU some other time.
 
laterz
I suspect running has nothing to do with it, btw.
I think your train will be doing the running for both of you.
 
1:20 PM
@Robusto They probably mean their server farm which acts as a kind of internet-accessible computing/storage resource. i.e. part of "the whole frickin' internet"
 
1:46 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's because "cloud" is sexier than "server farm" I suppose. Also more nebulous. Literally.
Hmm, I just typed "suppolied" for "supplied" in a design doc. I kind of like suppolied, and may have to invent a meaning for it.
 
Suppolied sounds like a soup brand
 
@Robusto "Cloud" is just a marketing term.
"server farm" is a technical term.
My phone backs up its settings "in the cloud".
As a consumer that's all I am supposed to need to know.
Specifically, it backs up its settings in Google's cloud.
 
2:32 PM
@Valinho I was thinking of some kind of singing soup . . .
 
@Robusto Thank you!
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 It was cool.
 
@Robusto I'm building a slightly more involved one that needs an enclosure, and collecting parts for one slightly more involved than that one.
 
Ineresting.
Be sure and link it when you're done.
 
Will do. I'm open to enclosure suggestions. Need room for eight knobs and nine switches.
How goes it?
 
2:36 PM
Meh, OK. Spring is grudgingly returning here, so . . .
I want a return to sun and laziness, punctuated by long bike rides.
 
That sounds nice. I would punctuate with tennis.
 
How goes you of late?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 How about an old Clutch Cargo lunchbox or equivalent?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in title: Fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish by picakhu on english.stackexchange.com
 
@Robusto I own the following metal lunchboxen: Strawberry Shortcake, Milk & Cheese, Sin City (from 20ish years ago).
Fish fash fosh.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I'd go with the Sin City one.
 
2:40 PM
It has sexy ladies on it.
 
All the more better.
People like sexy ladies for some reason.
 
Nice avatar, @Valinho.
@Robusto Indeed.
 
Oh.
Well, Strawberry Shortcake is never sexy. Not her thing.
 
Is Allston really a craphole socioeconomically disadvantaged?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes.
 
Allston and Brighton are the slums of Somerville.
 
Why?
 
I'm reading Infinite Jest.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Why does that distress you?
 
2:48 PM
I have inexplicable sympathies for strangers and strange things.
I know every major metropolitan area has its crapholes.
 
halloo.
 
Crapholes are to be expected.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes. Boston has more than most.
@Hellion Hola.
 
Halloo yourself, @Hellion.
 
> It seems quite unlikely to me that someone so close to Voldemort should not be a Death Eater—apart from Fenrir Greyback (whom I would think is much less inner-circle), I do not recall hearing of any of Voldemort’s important servants not being Death Eaters.
 
2:49 PM
Okay, I'm hallooing myself. Now what?
 
Could someone explain why whom is correct there? Makes no sense to me but this was a question posted by Janus.
 
@Hellion Put your left foot in.
 
It's already in. A shoe and a sock, even.
 
@terdon Not correct.
 
@Robusto Ah, so I'm not alone at least.
 
2:51 PM
All uses of whom are bad, and this one more than most.
who is much less inner-circle . . .
 
I was about to edit the post and remove it when I noticed it was Janus and I'm not about to argue grammar with him. He can have me for dinner.
 
whom would be correct if there were no "is" in that parenthetical, I think, but then the parenthetical itself would be a bit off.
 
One never says whom is. It just isn't done.
 
I'd accept of whom I'd think... but whom I think?
 
We hates whom . . . we hates it precioussss.
This your first time in chat, @Hellion?
 
2:53 PM
We especially hates treebeard who says it all the time and doesn't even spell it right, hoom hoom.
@Robusto, second or third time in three or four years, so you might as well call it my first. :-)
 
I don't mind whom as long as it's used correctly and not just to be pretentious.
Plus, it's relatively easy for me since I'm also a native Greek speaker and the who/whom thing is essential there.
 
I got an invite, probably because of that fish fish fish edit I tweaked.
 
And hello there @Hellion
 
@Hellion Smoky hated that one.
 
Yeah, I saw that in the history.
 
2:56 PM
Why are you editing an ancient post? Nothing better to do?
 
Somebody else edited it, it came up in the suggested edits review.
 
And you fell for that? Rookie move.
That's how Smokey traps you.
 
What can I say, I only need 900 or so more suggested edits for another gold badge.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The SmokeDetector
 
2:57 PM
I could get it by 2019 at this rate.
 
@SmokeDetector
 
@Robusto oh, that rings a bell.
 
@Hellion Yeah, I'm not going to get that one anytime soon. Too much like work.
 
Well, somebody wants more of us high-rep users to be more active editors....
 
I paid my dues.
 
3:10 PM
Ah, the world makes sense again:
@terdon That was a bit of collateral damage left over from an earlier wording where I’d written “whom I would consider…”. Thanks for the heads-up. :-) — Janus Bahs Jacquet 5 mins ago
 
@terdon I figured. Janus is normally quite the careful writer.
But you even see typos in my proes.
 
@Robusto Nevre!
 
@terdon No French -er inversions in chat, s'il vous plait.
We forgive almost everything around here, but not that!
 
Sorry, didn't mean to make you nevrous.
 
hides his tears
@terdon Seriously, Harry Potter is considered sci-fi?
 
3:22 PM
Pretty sure it falls on the "Fantasy" side of things, but they normally go hand-in-hand anyway.
 
I tried to read a Harry Potter book back when my son was in 6th grade, and I failed. I could not do it.
 
Perhaps Twilight is more your speed.
 
Nah, Ursula K. LeGuin is more my speed.
 
@Robusto The site is Sci-fi & Fantasy.
 
I think Rowling fails on either count.
May 10 '13 at 18:16, by Robusto
@Cerberus Rowling isn't fit to wipe Ursula K. LeGuin's ass. You want to read a really good wizard novel, try A Wizard of Earthsea.
 
3:31 PM
@Robusto The Cliff Notes summary version is also 800 pages of teenage whining.
 
I quite enjoyed the Potter books. They're fun. Not very well written, but fun nevertheless. Sort of a cheap imitation of Diana Wynne Jones
 
Very Good Evening everybody!
 
@Robusto The check hasn't cleared yet.
 
@terdon Not very well written = not fun for me.
@Mitch Sure it has. Otherwise I would never have received 100K swag bag.
 
@Robusto Then how can you stand most of sci-fi?
 
3:32 PM
@Mitch Answer: I can't.
 
@Robusto Not that badly written either.
 
@terdon Oh hellz yeah it is.
 
@Robusto Ooooh...what was in it? Chocolate? T-shirts? Chocolate t-shirts?
 
@Mitch Hey, there is a lot of very well written scifi. Granted, most isn't but still.
 
Sturgeon's Law, isn't it? 90% of everything is crap.
 
3:34 PM
Aye
 
That still leaves 10% decent stuff, then. :-)
 
Unless you apply it to television. The percentages drop. Fast.
 
@terdon The most famousest sci-fi is badly written. All of Isaac Asimov and William Gibson. All cringe worthy. But you you don't notice because lots of other more interesting stuff is happening.
 
Mar 21 at 20:33, by Robusto
Oh, before I forget: I got the 100K swag today. It comprises another ELU tee shirt, a large StackExchange coffee cup, and assorted SE-branded stickers.
 
@Robusto are the stickers chocolate? If not, forget it, I'm giving up.
 
3:35 PM
@Mitch True, but consider LeGuinn, Zelazny, Dick, Delany, Lovecraft, Wells... the list does go on.
 
@Mitch Well, let's not forget Robert Heinlein. His later work makes my skin crawl.
 
Exactly.
 
@terdon Indeed.
 
For all sorts of reasons.
His prose being least among them.
 
On the other hand, Brandon Sanderson.
 
3:37 PM
@Hellion Yeah. Sigh. I admit to having read more of him than I should have. He knows how to make a page turn and his writing has gone from excruciatingly bad to very bad over the past few books. With any luck, in another 3 decades, he might be able to write decently.
 
what's his name... stephenson? I suppose tolerable writing. But I'm reading it like I'm watching a suspense movie.
 
Neal Stephenson?
 
@Mitch Ooh, the newer Stephenson ones are fine!
 
But long. That's the major thing stopping me.
@Hellion yes.
 
And hell, Pratchett could write!
As could Banks.
 
3:38 PM
Oh. Yes.
 
Let's not forget Pierre Boulle.
 
Huh, haven't actually read him. He's on the list now.
 
Planet of the Apes was a great sci-fi novel and a terrible movie franchise.
 
But the last third of most Pratchett books seem to be long diatribes interspersed with some plot
 
Oh, and of course, that master wordsmith, George R. R. R. R. R. Martin!
 
3:40 PM
Forgive me for making this comparison...like Ayn Rand.
 
Apr 14 '14 at 17:44, by Robusto
@terdon That's as may be. Short stories are, by definition, short. The Song of Ice and Fire would benefit from a little more brevity and a little less of the feeling that he sweated out his prose by the tubful.
 
@Robusto Ah, so that's why it took you 30 seconds to respond. I was counting. :P
 
(must sneak off now)
 
Bye
 
@Robusto Oh... the movie gives me exactly the idea of sci-fi writing... great far seeing ideas that no one else is doing but needed to have been years ago, but kinda clunky. What's with the chick that can't talk? (yes I know there's a logical in-story explanation, but it is still clunky)
 
3:43 PM
@terdon I could sense that you were baiting me.
 
:)
 
Mar 21 at 20:33, by Robusto
No keys to a Lamborghini, sadly.
 
@Hellion Why do those seem to go together? Tolkien and Asimov, Martin and Stephenson, Stephanie Meyer and ...?
 
They could always send you the keys, but no car. That would be fun.
 
@terdon Heh. I would have to try them out on every Lamborghini I saw.
And since I've only seen about half a dozen Lambos in my entire life, well . . .
 
3:48 PM
@Robusto That'd be easy for me. I've never seen one.
Why do people lump fantasy and sci-fi together? They seem directed at different populations.
 
Five of them I saw on Sunset in West Hollywood. The other I saw in Lake Forest, IL.
 
@Mitch any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic.
 
I just saw one on Wikipedia.
 
@Mitch It's for people who like tractors and Belgian lace.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
@Robusto Belgian? Oh. That explains a lot.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
 
3:51 PM
@Mitch I think it's usually stupid malice
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Go ask Malice, I think she'll know.
 
stupid dormouse was asleep the whole time. didn't say anything at all.
 
@Mitch I blame @Cerberus.
Nov 29 '12 at 20:19, by Robusto
Aug 2 at 12:42, by Robusto
user image
He wouldn't go into the teapot without a struggle.
 
4:17 PM
@Robusto Do you have to be so cruel to be callous?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They go hand in hand
@Robusto Just push real hard.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Thanks mate. How did you hit on your username? It's quite funny. :)
 
@Valinho I like to give a certain coworker my cornbread from Boston Market. One time, I snuck into a meeting he was in to give it to him. I went unnoticed.
The new profile page is weird.
 
What? There's a new ... runs off to look
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Haha, i wonder how you obtained this skill. Maybe the teenage mutant ninja turtles trained you. :O
 
4:27 PM
@Mitch it's probably six months old. I haven't been around much.
@Valinho I took their pizza when they weren't looking.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You say you have no secrets? Then leave discreetly.
 
Did you miss me?
 
I did.
 
I don't want to hit you there.
 
4:31 PM
Let's go out in the hall, then.
 
ok
I should go for a walk. Bastards are making me stay for 2:30 meeting so not likely I'll get a bike ride in today. Bah.
 
4:45 PM
Ahh.
Bah! @Rob that's no good.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 YOu should put it back in the fridge then before it expires.
 
Where are you from guys?
 
5:04 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Right?
 
5:34 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Which one is correct? by ozfrt on english.stackexchange.com
 
All right then.
 
Sucks to your ass-mar.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Lord of the Flies, b'god!
How can I remember that line when I read the book once half a century or so ago?
 
5:50 PM
@Robusto Because it's so galdurned weird?
 
Mebbe.
Also I was much better at remembering lines from novels back then.
 
You weren't filling it with classical scores and EC lyrics yet?
(your head)
BBS
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nah, EC hadn't even been invented yet.
 
6:26 PM
@Robusto he was spending his time in a vanity factory, perhaps.
 
6:52 PM
i'm not angry anymore
 
7:19 PM
But aren't people supposed to talk back to the police...? If I just sit there and say nothing at all, that doesn't seem helpful... — gerrit 3 hours ago
I had the same problem of not being familiar with this idiom back in like 7th grade, since I had never gone to an English-speaking school.
and my teacher asked me why I'm talking back to her, and I was like… because that's what you do when someone talks to you
and I got yelled at and given like detention or something.
 
7:48 PM
room topic changed to English Language & Usage: One day the great silver birds will come again bringing their bounty [design-by-cargo-cult]
 
so what is a cargo cult again?
looked it up a while ago but it did not stick
 
8:38 PM
About two pounds.
Take my wife. Please.
I'll be here all night
Cargo cult behavior is doing something because everybody else does it not because there is a good reason. Doing things so that they look like what everybody else is doing superficially, but there's no substance behind it.
Wiki for it
 
8:52 PM
ty sir
 
Jez
9:03 PM
evening
 
 
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10:23 PM
@Mitch lolwut
 
crl
11:21 PM
I've simplified my imgur app jsbin.com/bapuwi/edit?html,js,output
It will work even for you @Cerberus
 
11:34 PM
OK I wiki-ed for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult the original idea of a local animist religion started up in Melanesia that made idols out of the planes the Americans flew over during WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science doing science that 'looks' like real science but with empty science behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming writing (or poy/pasting) code that looks like other people's code without understanding it
 

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