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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:23 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad pattern in url body, blacklisted website in body, +7 more (984): ketodiettrial.com/quick-burn-keto-reviews/ by hygtfwatzzard on english.SE
 
 
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Will Hunting
Will Hunting
8:26 AM
It is very strange that the first 9 games of the ongoing World Chess Championship all ended in draws, all.
There are only 3 games left, and after that there will be additional games if needed to break the tie.
Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are chess geniuses. QED.
They remind me of the good old days when it was Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
10:05 AM
@WillHunting have you seen chess? It's always a draw. Unless you go to the penalties. Then Germany always wins.
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
11:07 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): Building and Construction Lawyers in Sydney by buckinghamlawyers on english.SE
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
guys, I've a Q/A website and someone asked an English question, no one could answer that. Do you know the answer?
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
@Shafizadeh that's YOUR website?! Nice
It's the one @Mitch asked me to check out
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yes. Actually I'm trying to make SE for Iranian people .. they don't know English and they cannot use SE communities.
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
@Shafizadeh simply "I don't want to be seen"
@Shafizadeh yep, that's what crossed my mind. Good job, it's pretty neat
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ emm yes I guess that's understandable enough .. also, someone else told me "I wanted to stay out of sight". Is that true do you think?
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ thank you .. glad to hear that
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
11:20 AM
@Shafizadeh it's correct, and there doesn't need to be just one wording for what they want to convey. I'd just keep a sentence like that as concise as possible if I were to say it
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I see .. ok I'll write an answer for that question
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link following arrow in body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, +2 more (395): Nutra keto 24 | Review? by hellomariaa on english.SE
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
@Randal'Thor I'd say save some for me but I have to lose weight
@Randal'Thor why not "cast out"
Cast out a user
Then 'invite them back' or something
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
11:35 AM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yeah, that sounds more natural.
Apparently "outcast" can be a transitive verb, but I don't think I'd heard it before.
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
Outcasting someone is like burning a label onto their forehead I imagine
Viking style
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
I don't vie with kings.
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
Not you but that OP seems to be
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
2:44 PM
bleep bleep blorp bloop
 
Robusto
Robusto
3:08 PM
@RegDwigнt: Here's the instrument you should be learning instead of the violin:
Then you could be farting at the world instead of merely producing music. Win-win.
Of course, you might prefer the pedal tones of a trombone, in case you want to practice them in a bathroom stall and so act as a sonic laxative for those struggling in adjacent stalls. Again, win-win.
 
Robusto
Robusto
3:22 PM
This next is an interesting video, a good critique of UI design:
 
Robusto
Robusto
3:38 PM
This program puts him into a hilarious fugue state at the end.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Robusto lol are YouTube suggestions just flat out identical for everyone now?
I watched both videos very recently.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Must be.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Coincidence i think not wake up sheeple.
But that's all I got for the moment, gotta commute actually.
Only dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Jinx!
When you come back I'll have that Coke, if you please ...
Also, Dude, it's just two "yeah"s and then an "oh"—not, as some posers would have it, three.
And don't say you were trying to make a portmanteau with "She Love You" ... we both know The Beatles and Kenny Rogers are antipathetic to each other.
@Cerberus: I had a comment for you, but now I can't remember it. Perhaps you can recall?
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
4:31 PM
@Robusto I love Kenny Rogers Chicken. It's a nice restaurant and there is only one branch where I am now. The best chicken in the world.
 
Robusto
Robusto
5:02 PM
@Cerberus: Oh, I remember now. You should check out this guy. His loathing of Apple exceeds even your own.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Kenny Rogers Chicken is way better than Kentucky Fried Chicken. QED.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
6:02 PM
@Robusto Yes, that was the comment indeed.
I'll look at it.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad ns for domain in title (98): vstvhdlive.de/cowboysvsredskins/ by AmFootball on english.SE
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ θεωρη
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
6:19 PM
η θεωρία είναι φοβερή
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
6:30 PM
@Robusto That does look horrible!
I still hate the ribbon thing.
You need to fucking close and open it again and again.
You can't leave it open, because it takes up too much space.
In Excel, it even pushes the horizontal scrollbar off screen, so you can't scroll!
 
Educ
Educ
@WillHunting is this kind of proof or what ?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So you need to click that open and close button 1000x a day.
And a vertical list of options, that you can read from top to bottom, is much quicker to go through than a vertical list.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
6:54 PM
@Educ Well, QED is used to denote the end of a proof, but I abuse it to mean whatever I want. In most cases, it means something like full stop or period to me, so don't learn your English from my sentences. =)
@MattE.Эллен I see that you have reached Advanced Greek level.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:D well, that was Google translate
don't tell anyone though
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I think google translate works well for simple sentences.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
It took me a while to realise M.A.R. wasn't saying aoedoLLe
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I guess you read my email but there's nothing to reply @MattE.Эллен =) I just felt like saying stuff to you now and then.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Oh! yeah, sorry. I've not been very good at replying to email recently
feel free to email me whenever, though
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
6:59 PM
There is this computer exhibition 4 times a year here.
Big discounts.
And today I saw that the computer I got a few months ago was slightly cheaper today.
But it was only a few dollars difference, phew.
Who knows what the price will be at the next one?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
best not to think about it!
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Yeah, I noticed that Amazon has good computer prices.
But Amazon also doesn't ship computers here.
I don't trust third party sellers on Amazon for computers, though they do ship here.
The difference can be a few hundred dollars.
Like the latest Macbook Air is 100 dollars cheaper if you buy it in the US.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yes, I bought a refurbished tablet for cheap from a 3rd party and it was far slower than I think it should have been. I can't prove they switched out the chip, because I don't have the technical expertise
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I did go to the store to take a look at the latest Macbook Air.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
or maybe that was ebay
Macbook? You're leaving Windows?
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:04 PM
The price of 1199 USD is very high, no way I will get it.
So I am using Windows for the next decade or two.
@MattE.Эллен Yes, it's hard to verify these things. But in Windows 10 settings you can see the processor, but that might be tweakable so who knows unless you take out the physical chip and send it back to Intel for inspection.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Oh there are AMD chips these days too. I just found out a few weeks ago. How embarrassing.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:-o
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
There is an AMD Ryzen series of processors.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I remember when AMD bought ATi
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:08 PM
In fact, the highest ranked processors on laptopmedia.com right now are AMD ones.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
coincidentally around the time I switched to nVidia for my graphics card
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
And the most highly ranked graphics are NVIDIA.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@WillHunting interesting. I have always had intel
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
My laptop has i5-8250U processor with integrated graphics, that is, Intel UHD 620.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I don't have the money to build a new rig now anyway
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:09 PM
This processor works almost as fast as i7-8550U.
But the difference in price is maybe one or two hundred dollars.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
but juuuuust a little slower, so they can rationalise having 3 tiers :D
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I learnt that the numbers on the chips don't say much. You have to check the various clock speeds online. =) A higher number may not mean better processor.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah. it gets very confusing. especially with graphics cards
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Even more confusing, this week I already detected 4 mistakes in the posters of various stores selling computers. Mistakes in the specs.
I told the staff about them. =)
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
that's not good!
@WillHunting I hope they were grateful
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:13 PM
I didn't tell them I was mad and so spend all my time looking at specs online which is why I know. =)
Anyway, my laptop now has 256 GB PCIE SSD which makes it very fast.
Much faster than HDD.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah, I like ssds
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Actually I only need 128 GB but they didn't sell that configuration. In fact, maybe 64 GB will do.
THey do sell 64 GB stuff, but that is not SSD but eMMC.
SSD > eMMC > HDD
It is interesting to note that currently all Apple laptops use only SSD.
However, that still does not justify the price.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
SSDs are great. quieter and I assume cooler than hdd. less prone to self destruction
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I didn't wanna get a dual drive configuration, because I didn't know whether they would let you configure what to put on the SSD and what on the HDD.
@MattE.Эллен Supposed to use less power as well.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
for a laptop? I assume you can set that up
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:19 PM
Yeah, should be in the settings somewhere.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I have two ssds in my desktop, but also a 1tb hdd
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Which setting would it be in Windows 10?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I boot from the main ssd.
@WillHunting I don't know off the top of my head. I'd have to look
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
OK never mind. =)
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
and I'm miles from my desktop right now :D
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:21 PM
The only thing bad about my current laptop is the backlight keyboard.
I cannot make the light on all the time. After 30 seconds of no activity it goes off.
They should at least have a setting for this, but apparently there isn't
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
oh. that sucks
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
So I just don't use the backlight at all now, which means the laptop should have been cheaper. =)
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:D
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
In case you are interested, it is an Acer Swift 3.
But that name has a lot of different specs inside. Acer Swift 3 will refer to the outside, not the inside.
So there will be a range of prices depending on what is inside.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I see. I have a dell xps 13 developer edition. but they don't make this model anymore. it's pretty old
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:25 PM
Dell XPS 13 is a super premium laptop.
It is like the Macbook Pro in terms of the price.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah, I think it was. I bought it years ago, when I could afford things
the developer edition came with ubuntu preloaded
rather than windows
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
In fact, whenever people wanna compare Macbook Pro to WIndows, they use the Dell XPS 13 or 15. =)
Now we have the Macbook Pro 13 and 15 with touch bars.
Recently there is a new model, Dell Inspiron 5480, which has pretty good specs.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I don't currently need to upgrade my laptop, thankfully
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Is the Ubuntu File manager problem solved?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
no
I have been considering reverting to 16.04 with a fresh instal
it's a lot of work though
I'd need to do a back up and stuff
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:31 PM
Why not use Ubuntu MATE 18.04 instead?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
then go thought a fresh install
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
It still comes with 3 years updates.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I'd still need to do all the work
of a fresh install
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
With MATE desktop there is no problem with the file manager.
And it runs better too, using less resources.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
well, I'll consider it. if more things start being pointlessly difficult (e.g. how netplan doesn't automatically set up wifi) then I might switch to something new
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:33 PM
Ubuntu MATE is what Ubuntu would be today if GNOME had not changed from 2 to 3.
I think the GNOME thing is a big mistake, like Brexit.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I like how ubuntu looks. I just don't like how it's broken now
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I also tried Xubuntu.
It does seem that MATE is now having more and more features, so Xfce might be the way to go in future. =)
Then one day, Xfce will have more and more features, then LXDE would be the way, and we need to use Lubuntu. =)
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
tbf 16.04 broken unity probably around june, or maybe earlier when 18.04 released
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
But I shun LXDE now, because until now there might not be a way to change the brightness settings depending on your hardware, LOL.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
oh dear. that's no good
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
7:38 PM
I think for me, Ubuntu MATE and Xubuntu are the top 2 choices for Linux.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен I'm still at that stage. What is it supposed to mean?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Mitch I think it's meant to be awesoMe
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен goes back to read
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Awesome actually looks like Asshole. Each has 3+4 letters.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Huh. It sorta works. BUt I had to be told and think real hard while looking at it.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:41 PM
:D
 
Mitch
Mitch
the two lambdas as 'M' is confusing because it mixes case.
I am ruining the excellent pun by quibbling
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yes. that's partly what threw me
 
Mitch
Mitch
or is it caviling?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
also, t quibble some more, the δ could be a ς, which arguably looks more like an s
well, in handwriting it does...
 
Mitch
Mitch
I am working on a trilingual pun, but the word it involves are obscure enough that it probably won't make sense.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:43 PM
also μ in caps is M
@Mitch I look forward to it!
 
Mitch
Mitch
also double some letters changes things, right?
like gg or gamma gamma, is more like ng-g, right?
or is that ancient greek?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
possibly ancient Greek. I'm still a beginner, though
 
Mitch
Mitch
get it straight, Greek!
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
but AFAIK double letters don't sound different in Greek
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен unfortunately, letter pronunciation is page -1 in any foreign language learning book.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:45 PM
double consonants, I should say
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен but 'mp' is pronounced 'b', right?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch That is indeed Ancient Greek.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Mitch yes
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus is it the case for other pairs?
@MattE.Эллен and 'nt' pronounced 'd'?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
and αυ is af or av
 
Mitch
Mitch
7:46 PM
excellent!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Gamma kappa, gamma chi.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Mitch yes, sometimes. other times it's nt
 
Mitch
Mitch
I can now say anything I want in Greek!
Ancient or Modern!
Eureka!
Mpronte Sisters
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That should be Heureka!
And the second e is an eta.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Tell that to the Hoi Polloi.
At the top of The La Alhambra
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:48 PM
οι πολλοί
 
Mitch
Mitch
Oy.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
pronounced i poli
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Silence!
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Pardon?
I can't hear anyone, they're not talking.
 
Mitch
Mitch
What did the perverted Spanish librarian say to the German about the empty library?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:51 PM
I don't know
 
Mitch
Mitch
Don't give up so easily. Take your time.
I mean, I'm telling you that, not the librarian telling the German.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I am having connection issues
 
Mitch
Mitch
What did the perverted Spaniard say to the German about the empty library? ...

































Leer.
I can see that you are all doubled over with laughter, unable to properly type.
leer in English is to eye sideways in a lascivious manner
leer in Spanish means to read
leer in German means empty
I know, needs work
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:D I had to GT the german, but I got it
 
Mitch
Mitch
Leer is also a brand of covering/shelter that you put on top of the back of a pick up truck to make it like a small enclosure. So every time I drive up behind one at a stoplight and see 'Leer' I keep thinking 'Then why don't you fill it up?'
@MattE.Эллен Needs some tightening up. Also some actual sense.
This is what makes my entire day.
May last the entire week
If you see me sitting alone by myself, laughing to myself, this is why.
Also could have been gas.
But probably a bad pun I just made up.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
7:59 PM
:D I do the same
although I haven't come up with one in a while
 
Mitch
Mitch
Sort of unrelatedly by maybe only sorta, even though 'what is wrong with a grammar in senetence mine?' are annoyingly off topic, I feel like they should be allowed sometimes.
but they often take way too much explanation.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
do most of them belong on ELL?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен Aside from that, when not laughing at jokes I made up that I had never heard before, my internal monologue is at least 50% profanity.
So I am not looking forward to direct thought communication.
@MattE.Эллен Probably (and those same are probably off topic for ELL anyway)
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Mitch oh god no. that would be the worst. teleportation: yes please. telepathy: no. nononono
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен Exactly. When people say "tell me what you really think", no, you just do not want to know.
That hat looks awful.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
8:04 PM
if you think about it, telepathy just means distance disease
 
Mitch
Mitch
hahhaha!
Like when I'm thinking 'Hey, I'm wearing my favorite shirt, I feel pretty cool in it, I should really restart my rock and roll career'...
and then walk past a mirror and...
ew
ack
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
it'd be like not being able to uninstall twitter
 
Mitch
Mitch
that looked awful
and it wasn't just the shirt
You know how they say 'You make that outfit look good'?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
all the time
and even when I'm naked
 
Mitch
Mitch
I only just realized that they just want you to buy the goddam clothes and leave.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
8:07 PM
lol
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен snort
so cold
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
very cold
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен omg. I uninstalled it because it is such a fucking waste of time...wait, it makes that times worth negative...
and then other parts of my 'optimization' brain took over and realized I could just use the browser version.
and you can't reallly uninstall that.
so I trolled myself
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah. I haven't uninstalled it, yet, but I have removed it from my phone's home screen. I have to search for the app if I want to use it.
 
Mitch
Mitch
I've tried filling my feed with pictures of cute animals, but because I also can't unfollow friends, all the times they retweet tweets from name any abhorrent political situation and so I see that crap.
@MattE.Эллен Oh yeah, I went through that.
It worked. for a bit.
Like I'm sure I can somehow 'block' the website. But in figuring out how to do that, I'll learn how to undo that exact process much more easily.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
8:12 PM
yeah. I became so much more politically aware when I started using it, but then I felt bad all the time, and it took me a while to link that to my constant use of twitter
 
Mitch
Mitch
it's like the evolution of passwords
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
but now I don't use it I sleep much better
Ignorance is bliss
knowing that Brexit will happen in a few months is enough to worry about, tyvm
all the other things I have no control over can sit over there, out of sight
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен That's one thing that I do, I don't take my phone to bed. As much as I go around all day gritting my teeth because a chief justice and the leader of the ... chokes on own tongue ... free world, at least I don't fall asleep thinking about it.
It's like half the world has had their anxiety dial turned up to 8.
@MattE.Эллен grits teeth more
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah
 
Mitch
Mitch
there was that woman from England about three autumns ago who decided to move to the US to escape the Brexit thing. and then the US elections happened
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
8:17 PM
lol FeelsBadMan
 
Mitch
Mitch
she probably then moved to Venezuela to just shorten the entire process.
 

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