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@Cerberus I have never heard of such a thing.
Odd!
It is common here in larger supermarkets.
I don't know exactly how common it is.
Supermarkets aren't really large most of the time.
Here we have refrigerated...I'm not sure what they're called on the sides of some aisles, but it's not a separate room.
We have those too.
Lots of 'fridges' with transparent doors.
Yes, exactly.
So you have stores with a separate room that's all refrigerated?
Yes.
I can't find a picture.
A bit like this, but more packed with stuff and with doors.
00:06
Aren't US Costcos like that. One we have here has such a room.
A supermarket near here has a cooling section like that.
I think it is only the dairy and possibly the meat which are in there; there are also fridges in regular isles.
@Cerberus Where are the complimentary coats and hats and gloves?
You can see the word "koel" in places.
@tchrist Well, you will have your own unless you live inside the supermarket.
@jlliagre Huh. I must admit I've never actually been to one of those warehouse members-only stores or whatever they're called.
00:09
It must cost a lot of money climate-karma to freeze an entire room.
Not freeze.
Just cool.
It is no doubt done in order to save energy.
A dairy section should be barely above freezing.
The refrigerated shelves might actually be worse, since most of the cool air leaks out from those shelves into the rest of the store.
I'm not going to walk around in there with summer clothes on.
@tchrist They will have calculated the optimal temperature, cost versus spoilage rate.
00:10
Whereas the room can be kept isolated from the rest of the store.
@alphabet Yeah that's why they have this.
I remain confused.
@tchrist In summer, you will be hot, so you won't mind the cool place.
And you can be in and out in twenty seconds.
But why would they waste so much money?
I sometimes wonder why there are no 'temperature interfaces' for using cool air from the outside and making the fridge use less energy, in cold countries. Like a specialized part of the wall with some.. connection to the outside so that a specially-designed fridge could be connected via some tube there.
00:12
@tchrist Save money.
@CowperKettle Perhaps it is not worth the cost?
Perhaps
A normal refrigerator doesn't use that much energy per year.
But, yeah.
It would be nice.
And it's not like you're storing frozen foods in there.
00:13
No.
It was crazy warm today. I'm sure that means we're about to lose like 50 degrees in a day or two.
Inside the cool room.
omfg she's going to die!
@Mitch Thank you.
Milkcase temperature is not fun in your speedos or négligée.
00:17
@tchrist Thank you.
Perhaps it is this one brand of supermarkets that has it.
Huh? The refrigerated shelves they store milk in aren't that cold.
Well, you have seen enough now.
Sometimes there are big giant walk-in cold rooms for storing beer and such, but this is never a place you can take a cart, or barely turn around in.
00:22
Yes, we have those, too, for freezing and cooling.
Things that don't have to be kept so cold are not always behind glass.
They have been adding more glass.
Probably cheaper that way.
I imagine the glass cases are a lot more energy-efficient.
00:28
@alphabet Yes.
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Q: How does a giant walk-in fridge maintain a thin temperature gradient at the entrance?

TesserexI'm standing in a Costco store, and they have a large walled off area for chilled produce. The entrance to this section is a square opening about 10 feet on a side. When you walk in, you notice a rapid change from room temperature to cold. I've noticed that this temperature barrier is extremely ...

The supermarket doesn't care whether food spoils quicker as long as throwing it away is cheaper than cooling it.
@jlliagre I have only read the question, but my first thought is that conduction will be dwarfed by convection.
@jlliagre Yup, the answer agrees with me.
There is a reason why computers have fans despite their noise and vulnerability.
00:43
I have used English as an analogy for programming languages, but the opposite can be done here. A semicolon at the end of a statement in the C-family of programming languages is part of their syntax, whether one would read them out loud or not. Missing a semicolon at the end of a statement would cause a "syntax error". Because we don't pronounce full stops in speech doesn't mean they're not there. — ishtar 7 mins ago
She first posted it as an answer. :)
I believe she's telling us that we use Capital Letters when we speak.
Which means that the Illiterate cannot speak.
Maybe we have to be Taught how to Capitalize verbs when we Speak.
Queerly ideas.
My brain is having trouble understanding what color model they're using there.
Grammatically wrong? This is vaporware gossip. Next the writing police will screen notes that are past in klass. — Yosef Baskin 1 hour ago
Nest the rioting please whilks remotes dotter past ink lass.
Even if their covert messages were intercepted by the Enemy, the code talkers knew it would little avail them, for they knew the Enemy had no captive Navajo children to translate their cryptic scribblings.
Maybe that should have been (John) Wilkes (Booth).
Noun: whilk (plural whilks)
  1. Alternative form of whelk
Pronoun: whilk
  1. which
Noun: whelk (plural whelks)
  1. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
  2. whelk (plural whelks)
  3. (archaic) Pimple.
  4. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
> From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.
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@alphabet LOL
02:15
@alphabet Hmm I don't get it!
@Cerberus The CCP is glad you don't.
Do you get it?
@Cerberus Yes.
It is a pity that it is not explained to me.
@Cerberus Fine, fine, click here for spoilers.
02:20
Ah, that.
I didn't know that particular photo.
I was about to say "Weren't you alive when that happened?" but perhaps you were too young to remember it.
I remember the Fall of the Wall.
My parents dragged me to the television.
And the years before that, my father would tell stories about how people escaped over/under/through the Wall.
Such as by making a hot-air balloon out of sheets.
I was about six years old when it 'fell'.
 
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Q: I want to knwo the meaning of the word "horse"

BASKETI saw the word in an animal Park. Is it an animal which lives with human being?

???
04:51
Funny.
100% troll.
 
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09:18
@Cerberus A great event.
 
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15:29
@jlliagre To be fair, the Costco separated room for fruits and vegetables which is kept cooler is bigger than most small shops outside of Costco.
and also in Costco there is a large open area with aisles of freezers and coolers for milk and cheese... not a room but one area of the unboundedly large open warehouse.
So 'single room' shop would sort of apply to an American style supermarketm (even if squished inside a labyrinthine urban setting like some Carrefour's or Mercadona's
@tchrist yeah man i get it
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@Mitch The initial point was about 'single room shop' and I agree that the open-to-the-public areas of most supermarkets are indeed single rooms while Costco's and similar 'cryotherapy rooms' are an exception.
@Cerberus I did that when I was six years old too. Well, with an umbrella. And not over a wall but from the roof to the back yard. And not to escape the oppression of Stasi informers, but to escape the oppression of not being allowed to eat candy instead of a lovingly prepared dinner or walking across a trafficked street without looking both ways.
So pretty much the same thing.
@jlliagre Exactly. That's the exception that proves the rule, while for the most part not being an exception at all.
In fact, having not too unrecently been to a Costco, there is some attempt at minimal architectural design within the warehouse space that makes each 'area' special, like the super tall shelves of dry goods (one aisle for roasted almonds, salted, and the next aisle for roasted almonds, unsalted) and the clothes area which is all accessible by arms length for low stacks of identically colored polyester track suits, which have been pawed into a queasy mess.
And then over on one side there are, next to the eye glass counter, some mini 'temp' offices, like half container size, the size of very large walkn closets, to act as mini eye doctor offices.
That is, they just trucked in externally built temp buildings, like the contractor's office at a construction site.
-That- is a single room.
15:55
@Mitch having not too unrecently been to a Costco: I had to read it a few times before getting it.
@jlliagre You're welcome!
@Mitch At least, there is no annual fee :-)
Especially since 'unrecently' is newly born unto this world, you're like a Magi visiting a baby Jesus.
@jlliagre hm... monetizing litotes seems like a not too remunerative endeavor.
@jlliagre But also, I had to read it a few times my self afterwards to see if it said what I meant, and, lo, as a good St. Luke would say (Am I comparing myself to St. Luke? Am I a story maker of the god? All signs point to 'Lo!")... any way as a good story teller would say, I could kinda think if I squint real hard that, yes, it sort of hand waves in that direction means maybe what I kind of thought.
Now I have to read -that- a few times to confirm.
Scrutinizing
@Mitch I have a problem I've been hiding deep down in my heart for my whole life.
16:09
@Mitch Shouldn't he be a magus, or even a mage?
@jlliagre In English? Probably mage, but that sounds like mange, which is a skin disease on hairy areas. Which I don't care for. So I don't care for the word.
I guess 'magus' would be the fancy wy to say it, and acceptable if you're playing D&D, or friends of D&D.
To be honest, I was so uncool in high school that I couldn't get into the already nerdy D&D crowd.
@Vikas Go on...
@jlliagre OK full confession... in high school I was...
sdfsd
@Mitch Meaning of: -something-
There's a hierarchy of coolness of... clowns.
There's the rodeo clown - face painted white which is uncool because makeup is for girls, but you're saving the lives of stupid boys who are torturing poor animal by simply distracting the poor animal. Also sometimes the poor animal 'gets' the rodeo clown, and that's great fun for all.
There's the circus clown - either entertaining or scaring the piss out of sticky faced 5 year olds the world over. Because sometimes they're comic book villains or actual serial killers.
There's the birthday clown - like a circus clown but failed the job interview and now freelances, no benefits and actually is sad behind the painted on smile.
And then there's the mime.
The lowest of the low.
16:31
@Mitch I don't understand.
Replying to me?
@Vikas Nope. Continuing my 'full confession'. To continue further...
I was a mime.
But now we have that shame out of the way...
@Vikas go on...
@Mitch He already did.
As far as mime is concerned, I'm text/plain.
@jlliagre Look man, I can be opaque on purpose but I don't get it when other people are.
@jlliagre I don't know how you did it, but somehow you managed to find one level worse.
@Mitch My understanding is Vikas asked what's the meaning of a word between dashes.
@Mitch Yes, I'm that kind of clown.
@jlliagre That seems like something that one would not have deep doubts about for ones entire life.
16:43
Another litote maybe.
@jlliagre If that is indeed your question, @Vikas, it just means emphasis is placed on the word. Sometimes people put the word in caps to show stress, but that is a bit TOO much.
17:02
@Mitch So magus is a little like spaghetto, pedantic because we almost always talk about them at the plural.
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Q: What do you really know about the Lucy movie?

Brainy tricksIf someone knows about the deep details of the Lucy movie, don't hesitate to answer my question. That drug really exists in the world. Or it's fake a product? What is the real name of the chemical that is produced naturally in the mom's belly for the toddler?

Actually, if you want to unlock 100 percent of your brain, a teaspoonful of strychnine should do it
@Mitch We can use italic?
@Vikas Ahh... now it comes out, the true question.
@Vikas or bold, or colors, or underscores, or dots between letters, or
Sure people can use italic but...
17:09
@Mitch Yes that was a question. What's the meaning of: -something-
@Mitch ...you want to be special?
but -this- won't translate to EMPHASIS if you cut and paste. 'Italic' is not in ASCII/Unicode.
but -this- won't translate to EMPHASIS if you cut and paste. 'Italic' is not in ASCII/Unicode.
Oh. Makes sense. But where do we copy paste it?
@Mitch Are you implying you copy all your chat messages to your diary
+1
It does come with the slight downside that it is harder to read than italics. (it obscure somewhat the start and end of a word, and as everyone knows who has been exposed to the meme, we cna raed jsut fnie if yuo srcmable wdors dna lveae teh edns ok.
@M.A.R. You don't use chat as your diary itself?
 
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@M.A.R. Sounds like a professional click-bait author, trying to write a question :\
 
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