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SmokeDetector

00:27

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in answer: What idioms can describe a tough or difficult thing (such as a test)? by WOLFIEFAPS on english.SE

skullpatrol

...and there's the KICKOFF!!!

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00:57

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Q: to bring/wheel someone in

I am looking for a verb synonymous to bringing someone in to demonstrate something. As in: “To prove their point in front of the judge, the the defense [brought in] an “expert” who was supposed to…“ I’m looking for an expressive idiomatic verb that would capture the obvious cynicality (and perh...

single-word-requests

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01:31

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Q: Is there are word that means "contrived example" without a negative connotation?

I have been using the word strawman to describe source code that is extremely simplified or contrived to illustrate some syntax or usage of something where the actual source code is irrelevant and the contrivance is not important much less a negative connotation. Here is an example that I would...

single-word-requests

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02:08

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Q: Adjective to describe something that has "reached the cooked point"?

When water reached the boiled point, you say "the waiter boiled." How about food that reaches its cooking point? Example sentence: Like __ clams, her eyes snapped open.

single-word-requests adjectives

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03:08

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Q: A word similar to "Donate" but more freely provided to

Are there any other words similar to these words: Award, Bestow, Donate, Grant, Give, Provide, Tax ...that give a meaning of: I freely give to you a portion what I have acquired or earned, without hesitation or expectation of anything in return. You are owed this, without question. There is no...

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04:44

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Q: A word for someone who is forced to act naïve?

Is there a word or phase for someone who is forced to act naïve? For example, someone knows how to read and write, but because of their circumstances, they could be hurt or worse if anybody besides themselves knew. Not necessarily someone forced to keep a general secret, but someone forced to ke...

single-word-requests phrase-requests

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Færd

06:32

Give this to Google Translate:

> Die Volkswirtschaftslehre (auch Nationalökonomie, Wirtschaftliche Staatswissenschaften oder Sozialökonomie, kurz VWL), ist ein Teilgebiet der Wirtschaftswisswnschaft.

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skullpatrol

08:38

TIL the origin of the word "puzzle" is unknown

skullpatrol

08:59

But wait!

archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html

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SmokeDetector

12:42

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: Is there a name for the process of patterning new words after old ones in ways that don't respect their original etymology? by Rochelle on english.SE

Mitch

12:57

@skullpatrol it's a real poser

Ahmed

13:35

Are both of these equally natural sounding:

1) I am wearing a shirt with blue stripes

2) I am wearing a blue striped shirt

Feeds

13:47

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Q: In a schooling environment from national to school

What do you call a person who put systems in place?

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Q: Is there a word for somebody who likes to be taken care of and pampered?

Is there a word for somebody who likes to be taken care of and pampered? I thought of attenion seeker but that has a negative comnotation. Is there any regular word which is not necessarily negative?

single-word-requests

caub

14:34

Why would someone choose to spell who we are: "Who we is"? (hellosugoi.com navbar)

sounds like a pun

Oliver Salzburg

What is the opposite of someone being closely related to someone, as in parent and child? What would describe a relationship like a 5th degree cousin?

Is that remotely related?

caub

farly related / distant

Oliver Salzburg

"distant" seems like a great match. Thanks a lot

caub

I hope it doesn't sound like geographically distant

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Q: In the context of family, what is the opposite of "immediate"?

In the context of family, the term "immediate" refers to member of the family connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation. Is t here a term that refers to the rest of the family?

word-choice antonyms

Oliver Salzburg

I was looking for a name for a variable. So this suits me perfectly :)

caub

14:51

hehe ok

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

15:11

@caub farly?

Mitch

15:37

@Ahmed Yes, both are idiomatic English. The first one is more likely to be spoken, both equally likely written.

@caub Ugh...that site has all the worst tropes of brogrammers.

I'd guess that they think the bad syntax is 'cool' and 'ghetto' and 'hip'.

@OliverSalzburg Or distantly related.

@caub ?? both 'farly' and 'distant' are terribly ungrammatical there

@OliverSalzburg don't use 'distant'. use 'distantly'

'they are distantly related' or
'the relationship is distant'

terdon

Yes, but Mary is a distant cousin.

But no, that is absolutely not equivalent to closely, only to close.

tchrist

16:04

@caub If this world were fair and just, the opposite of immediate would be mediate.

terdon

And enervate would mean enhance instead of diminish vitality. Alas, such is not our fate.

Ahmed

@Mitch ok thanks

Yeah, this world isn't perfect. Afterworld is perfect I hear.

MetaEd

16:48

@Ahmed Much better than the movie.

Mitch

@terdon haha I used to use it as ~enhance. I stopped using it when I found out I was wrong

@MetaEd Afterbirth is better ... medium-rare

skullpatrol

@Mitch what do you mean?

Mitch

@skullpatrol a poser = a thing that is posed (as a question) = a difficult problem = a puzzle, and also by that link is cognate

skullpatrol

17:04

I'm not so sure about the authenticity of that link @Mitch in terms of the origin of the word "puzzle."

I'd rather see it in a dictionary.

Andrew Leach

> It has alternatively been suggested that the word may be a frequentative formation in -le suffix 3 from pose v.2 with shortening of the stem vowel (for a possible parallel, compare nuzzle v.1 beside nose n.); with the possible semantic development, compare pose v.2 2a. However, if this is the case, the uniformity of the -u- spelling in all of the earliest examples is striking (contrast the formal variety shown by nuzzle v.1),

> and furthermore shortening of the reflex of Middle English open ō to u is not easily accounted for (which is a problem also encountered in the etymology of nuzzle v.1).

(OED3)

OED has three putative etymologies for puzzle and doesn't really like any of them.

skullpatrol

That's what I wanted to find out @AndrewLeach, thanks :-)

NVZ

Question: "He told me, not you." This can mean "He told me. You didn't tell me." Or it can mean "He told me. He didn't tell you." Right? And what kind of ambiguity is it? Lexical?

skullpatrol

Right.

They mean different things, so I'd say "semantic."

NVZ

Ok

I think they're both the same ambiguity.

Found this: Lexical ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single word. Also called semantic ambiguity or homonymy. thoughtco.com/what-is-lexical-ambiguity-1691226

Matt E. Эллен

17:16

yes. although in this case it's not that a word has two possible meanings. its that a sentence has two possible interpretations, depending on emphasis

NVZ

Hmm.

Oh, hey, Matt. Long time no see

Matt E. Эллен

hi!

NVZ

I see a notification for spam flags on chat messages for some random chat rooms. Is this normal? I checked it, saw nothing unusual. Clicked on "not spam" or "invalid" I think.

skullpatrol

How you read it, will depend on the context...

Matt E. Эллен

yes, once you hit 10k network wide you'll start seeing chat flags

NVZ

17:20

I see.

Matt. I suppose you mean "Ellen" by the russian spelling. What does the Russian spelling actually read?

Matt E. Эллен

In terms of pronunciation? I assume it's pronounced pretty much the same as Ellen

NVZ

I see.

Matt E. Эллен

Google translate says "Ellen" with a 'Russian' accent :D

NVZ

Or is it a syntactic ambiguity?

I'm now thinking it is synctatic.

Matt E. Эллен

Well, the sentence has dropped words from it, so possibly.

NVZ

17:25

Hmm.

Syntactic ambiguity

Syntactic ambiguity, also called amphiboly or amphibology, is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meanings of single words, but from the relationship between the words and clauses of a sentence, and the sentence structure underlying the word order therein. In other words, a sentence is syntactically ambiguous when a reader or listener can reasonably interpret one sentence as having more than one possible structure. In legal disputes, courts may be asked to interpret the meaning...

This looks more like it.

Why don't I see more downvotes on this meta question I made?

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Q: Should we promote partial answers?

Vote up or down on the question to show agreement or disagreement with the idea. Even better, let me hear your reasoning in an answer. :) Stack Exchange: "Answers belong only in answer boxes." ELU: "Yeah, right." ¹ I hate to see countless okayish questions covfefeying around, even though most...

I wish to see a strong approval or disapproval, not just a "meh".

Færd

/œ̃/
/ɛ̃/
/ɑ̃/
/ɔ̃/

Do we really not have any of these in English? I find the first/last two hard to tell apart.

MetaEd

@Mitch Doesn't sound very placenta to me.

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17:48

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Q: Quadruped is to four-legged animal as ___ is to six-legged animal?

A creature which walks on two legs can be referred to as biped; bi- meaning two. A creature which walks on four legs can be referred to as quadruped; quad- meaning four. What is the corresponding word for a six-legged creature?

single-word-requests word-choice

Ahmed

18:12

@Mitch Yuck, you like to watch afterbirth? You have weird tastes man.

=)

@MetaEd Hi Ed. Which movie? I mean you wrote "the" movie".

Mitch

@skullpatrol Oh. sure. It does look a little dodgy. but I'm just messing around.

Matt E. Эллен

etymology is srs bsns

Ahmed

Is your name "Meta" or "Ed"? I am always confused.

Matt E. Эллен

Me Taed

skullpatrol

@Mitch np pal

Ahmed

18:15

@Mitch When are you not?

skullpatrol

Ya'll don't wanna see his serious side.

Mitch

@NVZ That's a hard one. 'you's ambiguity isn't usually considered lexical, it's the referent that can be more than one thing. I don't think you would say the variable 'x' is ambiguous, it just is underspecified. But I suppose maybe...maybe that could literally be called lexical ambiguity.

Matt E. Эллен

if MetaEd ever meets Aedia, metaedmetaedia

Mitch

@NVZ there are 6 votes so I don't think it is that nobody cares, but that a number of people have different opinions evenly divided. My personal opinion is 'It depends' so definitely 'could be yes or could be no depending on the comment and question'

NVZ

I see

Mitch

18:21

@MetaEd Am niotic that kind of person

@Ahmed I think you misread. It's worse than that

@Færd a good white wine = un bon vin blanc = /œ̃ bɔ̃ vɛ̃ blɑ̃/

classic exercise in French pronunciation

@Færd 1) No. In traditionally analysis of English phonology, it does not have any nasals in it's repertoire. Of course, lots of slurring and partial realizations will get many native English speakers to pronounce nasals. But that's not official.

skullpatrol

I vote to make Mitch room owner.

Mitch

2) Yes, those two are hard to distinguish for me. A bit like pin and pen for me. They're distinguishable, but I have to try.

@skullpatrol I vote for more donuts

skullpatrol

:-D

Mitch

Or rather, the person who has the last donut has to go get more.

Ahmed

@Mitch You have lost me. What did I misread? I think I didn't get that "medium rare" part, to me it means (of meat, especially beef) cooked so that the outside is browned and the inside is still partially red, and in that context it makes no sense to me.

I can't always understand your jokes, they are deep. =)

Mitch

18:27

@Ahmed rarely.

Ahmed

Yeah, Mitch being one of the nicest people and all... he doesn't even want to be a moderator I'm sure.

Mitch

I'm effing serious about the donut thing man. Who the hell takes the last donut?

@Ahmed secretly craves unbridled power

siphons energy from the donut eating hordes

@skullpatrol OK dude. Grammar police have been dispatched to your residence.

Ahmed

Just write "fucking" for fuck's sake, "effing" seems like this chat is for 9 year olds.

Mitch

It's "y'all".

it's a contraction of 'you all'

Ahmed

Oh I mean it is respectable to use "effing" and all that.

I understand. Totally.

skullpatrol

18:29

:O

Mitch

it's not a contraction of 'ya will'

@Ahmed Um tell that to @KitZ.Fox

Ahmed

haha

I was just joking.

Mitch

@Ahmed OK. You've left me no option. I'm going to have to explain something.

And it's not pretty.

Unless you're into that sort of thing.

There's this idea that...

skullpatrol

Sorry @Mitch my hillbilly lingo isn't that good

Mitch

that consuming certain things will engender certain positive properties.

It's not an uncommon idea: fish is 'brain' food, starches are good for 'stamina', multivitamins are good for general health.

in fact modern pharmacology comes out of basic use of herbs for health.

but there's a lot of myth

one of those ideas is that the fresh placenta from the birth of a mammal has certain.. properties.

and .. ahem... consuming it .... gets queasy ... gives you certain powers ... dry heaves

Ahmed

18:36

@Mitch Oh I see, you mean like "fish eggs" right?

Mitch

like ... clairvoyance ... lucid dreaming ... skin turns ashen .... and the dreaded 'five fingers of death'

Ahmed

I thought you were talking about human afterbirth and placenta.

Mitch

@Ahmed what? fish roe? caviar? what properties is that supposed to give you?

@Ahmed what did you think I was talking about? Brandy balls?

@skullpatrol haha... you're lucky. goes to sulk in corner

Ahmed

Why "corner"? You can sulk in here.

Mitch

@Ahmed You can understand most of what I say by using a dictionary, looking them up on wikipedia, or search google for references, then thinking the absolute worst.

@Ahmed goes to middle of room to sulk about sulking in the wrong place

Ahmed

18:39

:)

Jasper

Hiiii.

Ahmed

Howdy!

Mitch

IT WAS A DARK REFERENCE TO HOW SOME PEOPLE EAT THEIR OWN NEWBORN'S PLACENTA TO GAIN SUPERPOWERS

Ahmed

WHAT THE ACTUAL FLYING FFFF...

Jasper

What does the OED say about the word caducibranchiate? It is not in my copy of SOED.

Mitch

18:41

@Ahmed What? Are you 9-years old?

Ahmed

@Mitch Well, in capitals it would look kind of bad. =)

Mitch

@Jasper It's been bowdlerized to remove all references to placenta-eating.

Jasper

@Mitch I think it is OK to eat the placenta, not hurting anyone.

Mitch

@Jasper Right, as long as it's no one you know.

Like cannibalism

Needs salt. BRB

Jasper

@Mitch It is OK to eat dead people as well, if there is no food, which did happen in some historical events.

Ahmed

18:43

@Mitch How can you live on just salt? OK I am waiting till you return.

Mitch

@Ahmed I'm back. Did anything happen while I was gone?

Ahmed

@Mitch Nothing. It is very peaceful here.

Mitch

OK Here's my checklist:
- self-referential jokes
- mincing and unmincing taboo words
- cannibalism
- placenta
- placenta cannib... aha!

Jasper

There was a whole bunch of chat flags in the math room just now.

Mitch

So there this baby who was just born walks into a bar and says:

@Jasper Anything interesting?

actual flag worthy?

or are they just under the radar?

Jasper

18:46

Nope, just some kids playing around, no psychopaths involved.

Mitch

I always want ti see something juicy, but usually it is just something in russian that turns out to be pretty lame.

Unless google translate has been bowdlerizing all along.

Jasper

I am having fun on ELL. I will be staying there long term I think. You can find me in that room if you want.

Mitch

Is anybody else there at the moment?

Jasper

That room is kind of empty. I must have frightened everyone away with my recent arrival.

Mitch

oh

I had heard that damrong was the main driver over there, but they haven't been there much lately so there isn't much traffic.

Jasper

18:55

You mean Damkerng, LOL.

Do you like my new blue pic?

Mitch

Oh. Wow. looks like you and @skullpatrol run that place now

@Jasper oh. yeah. I couldn't remember right

@Jasper nice shade. almost black. but hard to see your face

Jasper

@Mitch Strange. Maybe the lighting on my laptop is different from other people's. Everyone tells me it is too dark, LOL.

Mitch

@Jasper you may also have younger eyes. I need a lot more contrast in images than I used to in order to see well

Jasper

@Mitch I think I have myopia and astigmatism, but that's about it.

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Q: Looking for a word to describe a feeling of hopelessness due to being a participant

I am looking for a word that would describe someone as being hopeless because they are part of a deteriorating situation, but not something as strong as "victim." I am describing the essayist's tone and have "Her overall tone was quite lyrical, but in general dark and somewhat hopeless." This p...

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MetaEd

19:07

@Mitch You ain't fluidin' nobody.

Mitch

@MetaEd Spinal tap?

That's all I got

MetaEd

19:29

@Mitch That's because you haven't turned it up to eleven.

caub

@Mitch oh sorry

Mitch

@caub no need to be sorry here. 'farly' would seem to be a reasonable creation of an adverb from an adjective, but it turns out not at all. and I could see a similar thing about 'distant'. again language (or maybe just English?) is weird.

@MetaEd Dammit

turns machine on

caub

"farly" doesn't exist indeed, I don't know how I thought about that :))

Ahmed

I thought you meant to write "fairly distant". I took it as a typo only.

Fairly distant makes sense I guess.

Ahmed

19:51

@Mitch If I am in US in the south, Tennessee for example, with a long enough beard will that be a problem? Just curious. Or I can ask someone in real life... Hmm.

caub

Do you have a turban too?

Ahmed

Heh, no.

Why?

caub

just a bad joke, I'm the opposite of racist anyway

Ahmed

I know. I mean a potential terrorist wouldn't wear a turban and a long beard before blowing stuff up or killing someone. He will mostly likely be a clean shaven person so he could mix easily in the crowd.

But still I am just curious.

caub

Yea totally, but people's mentality is a bit like that

Ahmed

19:56

Yeah, it is quite sad.

@Mitch Do you say "mix easily in the crowd" or "mix easily with the crowd"?

caub

I didn't even notice your name yet, had a lot a "Maghrebian" friends in uni

Ahmed

I see, cool.

I'm not from Africa though. By the way, my name is common all over the muslim world not just in one particular region I am sure.

It is not my real name though =)

caub

books.google.com/ngrams/…

not really helpful though

Mitch

@Ahmed depends, but most likely not. also depends on where exactly. All sorts live everywhere in the US. In rural parts of the South there are not many immigrants so the locals may ask you inappropriate questions, but they'll serve you at a business just fine. In any big city in the South you won't have a problem at all.

caub

Ahmed is the Alan of English, the Alain of French I guess, sort of :)

Jasper

20:04

@MattE.Эллен I saw you pop into that room for a few seconds just now, lol.

Mitch

I don't know anymore since 2017 started. I used to think that whatever problems with race you see in the news about the US that it was just vocal about things and that in fact was less racist than many other (especially European) countries.

Ahmed

@Mitch I see. Cool.

Mitch

But now I don't know anymore.

Matt E. Эллен

@Jasper well, I was curious what all the fuss was about

Mitch

It's always been tough to be black in the US. But now I don't know relatively anymore.

Jasper

20:06

@MattE.Эллен Oh, I thought you wanted to become a permanent member there, lol.

Matt E. Эллен

not at the moment :D

Mitch

@Ahmed I make one sentence claiming one thing and then I think about it and I'm not sure.

Ahmed

@Mitch Yeah, but I am not black though. My skin tone is lighter than brown.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен There's a fuss going on? What about? I can help. I have advice.

Ahmed

I know blacks have it tough

Jasper

20:08

Hmm, Kit is making this app for Hurricane Harvey victims and there is a room for that, interesting.

Mitch

Like sometimes medium is too much and medium rare is not enough

so ask your server

Jasper

@Mitch What is the current state of racism in the US?

Mitch

@Ahmed in the south being 'black' or perceived as what is really African-American is very different from being 'brown but not African' like Latin or Middle-Eastern. And East Asian just doesn't fit in that. It's all based on appearances.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch maybe I overstated it. less of a fuss more of a conflab

Mitch

@Jasper The extremely small minority of white supremacists, and their encouragement by changes in the US government have amplified their voice. I think for the most part white people are pretty cool about overt racism, but things like movies and other media tend to reinforce what are essentially non-existent stereotypes about blacks.

@MattE.Эллен Ooh. I love a good conflab

not knowing exactly what that is of course

@Jasper in which SE?

Matt E. Эллен

20:13

@Mitch I double checked the definition on Google and it told me "another word for confab"

Mitch

@Jasper also, that is a huge topic and hard to answer easily.

@MattE.Эллен Nice. goes to look up confab too

Jasper

@Mitch chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64861/harvey-rescue-webapp

@Mitch I hope there isn't too much of it against people of my colour.

Mitch

@Jasper they better hurry up on that. also start creating the Hurricane Irma app which may be just as bad.

Jasper

@Mitch Maybe @KitZ.Fox will become famous for creating these apps to help all kinds of disaster victims, like win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Mitch

@Jasper like I said...East Asian doesn't really fit well into most Americans sense of race

Jasper

20:17

@Mitch Doesn't fit well, meaning they don't know what to think of it?

Ahmed

I like US, but I will probably never move there. I think about moving to Canada. It is less crazy over there I think.

Mitch

simplify to make it easier to make a decision (by how well it sounds):
mix in the crowd vs
mix with the crowd
first one sounds better but 'into' is probably the likely one that fits best

Ahmed

@Mitch Ah okay, thank you!

Mitch

@Jasper right. "Hmm...they're different somehow but there's no history to tell me what to think about it. They're good at kung fu and technical stuff, right?"

caub

Can you say "I'm waiting a new laptop"? (ellipsing the "for")

Jasper

20:20

@Mitch I understand now, not a bad thing for me, lol. Of course, everyone knows I am a kungfu expert. I taught Kungfu Panda his kicks.

@caub No.

caub

Hmm ok

Jasper

But if you say you are waiting tables, that means you are a waiter.

Mitch

@Ahmed They have the stereotype of being polite all the time, but they're just as racist and mean as anywhere else. They'll be polite to your face

Ahmed

@Mitch haha. Okay.

caub

ok

polite, who, Canadians?

Mitch

20:23

@caub in popular media yes.

Matt E. Эллен

@caub you can say "I'm awaiting a new laptop" because "await" is transitive. "Wait" is intransitive, so cannot take a direct object

Mitch

yes, but that's a bit old-fashioned, to use 'await'

caub

@MattE.Эллен thanks for the precision, ok

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch Maybe it's just all the javascript I'm writing :D

Mitch

@caub just like americans are loud braggarts that talk about money (this stereotype existed long before now)

caub

20:27

hehe JS's await is fantastic

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен is that a keyword?

Matt E. Эллен

yes, it's new-ish

Mitch

wow...I gotta read up. it's like a catch but not for errors but for asynchronous callbacks?

Matt E. Эллен

yeah, I think that's a good analogy

used with promises

caub

const delay=(x,t=500)=>new Promise(r => setTimeout(r,t,x));
(async () => {  console.log(await delay('wow'), await delay(1)+await delay(3, 800));  })()

I'm rusty with the chat

you can still use the Promise .catch, I prefer it to the cumbersome try { } catch(e) { }

await/async are still promise under the hood

async function foo(){ } returns a Promise

Jasper

20:34

@MattE.Эллен Actually, to me await = wait for, QED.

In the same vein, comprise = consist of.

Matt E. Эллен

comsise of

Jasper

But, 'comprised of' is commonly used now too.

Matt E. Эллен

Of course, if you're some kind of apprentice and your boss sends you to the cupboard to look for a long weight...

caub

console.time(1);
(async () => {
	console.log(await delay('wow'), await delay(1)+await delay(3, 800));
	console.timeEnd(1)
})()
.catch(console.error);

was just testing that, because it wait for all promises sequentially (1800ms)

Matt E. Эллен

1: 31678.11ms

caub

20:37

await Promise.all([delay('wow'), await delay(1)+await delay(2, 80)]) would be different

Matt E. Эллен

that seems too long.

caub

yea that's weird

Matt E. Эллен

ah, I know what it was. I started the timer before I had declared delay

so, it took me a few second to paste it :D

1: 1804.79ms

Mitch

programming is getting on my nerves. you can do everything in every language, but some languages do it it differently, or have different syntax for the same thing, and then there are APIs/frameworks that might do the same thing, but then maybe not, and now I just know what I want to have been done but not how to actually do it.

Gigili

Makes sense

caub

20:55

@Mitch honestly JS is becoming the prevalent language, it's simple, powerful as a scripting language, even if tchrist would surely prefer another one, fast. It lack a bit typing, but there are good emerging alternatives to make codebases scale nicely

s/typing/stronger typing

JS is to programming languages what English is to spoken languages :p

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Q: english or general knowledge

I am Kajal Lodwal and my question is about English learning If anyone knows the answer please reply me. My question is: What could we call a person with deep knowledge in various fields?

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Q: A word for unobtrusive architecture amidst architecturally superior ensemble?

I am looking for a term for unobtrusive architecture amidst architecturally superior ensemble. E.g., a contemporary building in a college campus or in a European old town that features some stylized elements and color of the old buildings, but is generally bland and deliberately "un-architectural...

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SmokeDetector

21:14

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: A fitting word/description for a person who seems more mature in appearance than most people his age? by ufuma09 on english.SE

Andrew Leach

Woo. Less than 45 seconds to deal with that.

Færd

22:07

@Mitch Thanks mate.

Feeds

22:45

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Q: Adjective to describe an ongoing and not yet completed issue of an online magazine?

It is possible to run an online magazine so that the current issue may yet contain further articles in addition to the ones already published. What is the best adjective to describe the current (ongoing) issue of such a magazine. "Ongoing issue" usually means a current problem that needs to be a...

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Sep '178

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