English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

haha but the kids are smart these days they don't bother because all the boring adults are on facebook taking mom and dad selfies at an antique market

Kit Z. Fox

meh, it's all Snapchat all the time

Mitch

3:17 PM

I went on facebook recently and didn't see any of this 'fake news' stuff. I felt miffed.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox but... then what is their line? yeast is a microörganism. they kill microörganisms by breathing

Mitch

but not chuffed

that would be bad

if I were chuffed

at missing the fake news on FB

Kit Z. Fox

@MattE.Эллен Veganism will actually make you crazy.

Robusto

@Mitch It would be worse if you were chubbed.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox fair enough

Mitch

3:18 PM

@KitZ.Fox I can't do snapchat. It takes me a day to wonder about why that person is texting me. I can't have messages disappear.

It's usually my wife

WHY IS MY WIFE TEXTING ME?

Kit Z. Fox

It's that the yeast produces alcohol, so alcohol is labor of another animal.

except yeast isn't an animal.

Mitch

I usually find out that it was a ride she needed

Robusto

Here's a GoFundMe idea: Like SnapChat, but instead of the messages disappearing the people do.

Mitch

@Robusto Being clubbed moreso

@MattE.Эллен How about a tsk tsk? Will that kill anything?

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox yeah. also human are animals, so anything they use comes from the lab- you're right, it will make me crazy

Mitch

3:21 PM

@Robusto I thought a better ending to Avengers:Infinity War would have been

Robusto

Do vegans eat p***y? Just wondering.

Mitch

Hey has everybody who want to seen Infinity War already?

Kit Z. Fox

pasty?

Mitch

@Robusto Putty? That's nasty

Pasties are great.

Kit Z. Fox

mmm

Mitch

3:22 PM

They're like dumplings right?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch it might, if any of your white bloodcells in your saliva land on any bacteria they know how to kill!

Kit Z. Fox

yeah

Robusto

@Mitch Well, it's not an animal product.

Mitch

but with a titillating name

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch I did

Matt E. Эллен

3:22 PM

@Mitch I have

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен considers radiation treatment to stop immune system

reconsiders

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch but that would kill anything living in your body!

@Mitch phew!

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен exactly.

Robusto

Or how about SlapChat? You can literally reach through the screen and slap somebody who's being an idiot.

I would pay for that service.

Mitch

Also, you need a broom to carry with you at all times to sweep out in front of you while you walk so you don't accidentally smush any bugs

Matt E. Эллен

3:24 PM

STTFOIP - slap to the face OIP

Mitch

It's also a good full body workout, you really pump up your triceps that way (remember to switch left and right handed evenly)

@MattE.Эллен Oh I Pee?

You're weird man

Matt E. Эллен

everyone Pees. don't pretend you don't. you have a pee room

Robusto

If you can't P you will Q.

Mitch

So anyway to totally ruin the ending of Infinity War for those who haven't seen it, or for people like me who have forgotten already and will watch it again having a vague feeling of dread but not knowing why... where was I?

Robusto

I won't see it. I don't see comic-book movies anymore unless Gal Gadot is in them.

Matt E. Эллен

3:26 PM

I don't feel so good, Mr. Mitch

@Robusto that is a good rule

Mitch

well that dude himself is one of the half that goes up in ashes. and only realizes this when he's halfway ashes.

haha serves him right.

Robusto

@Mitch What, again?

Mitch

That's irony!

Kit Z. Fox

Hahaha, that would be great.

Robusto

Why did you bowdlerize your own message?

Mitch

3:28 PM

@Robusto Because I'm like that

I don't want other grubby hands doing it

dirty grubby hands

Robusto

Your own grubby hands will suffice?

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox The writers missed their chance. They gave a stupid action film a non-Hollywood French style depressing ending, and they could have made it really French.

Robusto

What kind of a name is Gal, btw? A little too on-the-nose, perhaps?

Mitch

@Robusto I know where they've been

@Robusto Oh You mean waiting for Gal that's not how you pronounce it guh DAHT?

Robusto

If it's not it should be.

@Mitch I'm thinking on-the-nose the way the name He-Man was.

Mitch

3:33 PM

@Robusto Ohhhh. I get it. Like Guy Fawkes. He's a dude. And his name says it. I get it.

Robusto

Exactly.

Mitch

Like that guy with no arms and no legs and hangs on a wall and his name is...

Man Manson Mcdudebro

Uh... yeah

lol

3:34 PM

Or anybody named Manny. Or Fanny.

Mitch

Or that bounty hunter whose name was 'Dog'

because... ok I can see problems with that

Robusto

Or any dog named Doggy.

Mitch

Yeah... that

Matt E. Эллен

We named our rat Ratatouille

I hope, if we ever get dog, we don't name it Doggerel

Robusto

How do you tell Google News that you don't want to see stories about flesh-eating bacteria ever again?

Kit Z. Fox

3:38 PM

marinecorpstimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/08/01/…

Mitch

wait for it

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto perhaps ask in ips.se

Look, Google News, I need to set a few boundaries. For one, please, never tell me anything about necrotising fashiitis

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox epic beard

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен I'm kind of embarrassed to correct you that it's fasciitis ... I mean, how do I know that? Google is to blame.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен holds back from telling about guinea worm

Matt E. Эллен

3:41 PM

@Robusto ah well, spelling and pronunciation in English etc...

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch Innit, tho?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Totally unrelated.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox by epic I mean wow that takes a lot of upkeep. you don't just sit around for two years letting that thing grow like weeds. you have to manage it constantly

but a side benefit is that you can't accidentally suffocate by sleeping face down

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch I think you're learning!

Robusto

@Mitch You can in a river.

Mitch

3:43 PM

also, you don't have to go to the fridge for second breakfast, it's all right there.

@Robusto with someone holding your head under. those things are so buoyant!

Robusto

@Mitch This is why airheads never drown?

Or at least not often enough.

Kit Z. Fox

Vapid buoyancy system™

Robusto

> President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump came out Thursday against the family separations that resulted from her father's zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigration, calling them a "low point" of her White House tenure thus far.

Kinda spoiled her day, huh? That's so sad.

Mitch

What a coincidence. I just saw that too

Kit Z. Fox

I can't believe that was worse for her than all the mean people in Washington like saying mean things about her and her family!

Mitch

3:54 PM

There was a movie a wholelotoffigureouthowoldIamago, a documentary about 5 super rich kids, like one of the DuPonts and one of the Anheuser-Busch's and etc, and like one was an iconoclast and was getting a phd to show his family he was like a normal person, and one was a total dick like you'd expect never showing up to class or final exams and the dean writing an apologetic letter to him saying they wish he'd take an exam eventually...

And one of the kids was Ivan Trump. And she seemed not totally terrible.

Holy shit..I did not mean to say it that way. Ivana

I've over filled my pun quota for the day

Robusto

@Mitch August Busch IV was a wild child. So bad that when he took over Anheuser-Busch his father got the company bought out by InBev just to get rid of him.

Matt E. Эллен

did they all live together in the same flat?

was it on MTV?

Robusto

Was Jennifer Aniston in it?

Mitch

@Robusto One of the kid's father's was a painter?

Matt E. Эллен

Real World Rich Kids

Mitch

3:57 PM

@Robusto I don't think so? Was she super rich as a teenager/college kid?

Robusto

Finally, we're getting down to the important questions.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен haha no. basically five separate documentaries with the same theme. Is this super rich kid a dick or not.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch ah!

Robusto

Affluenza

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. It is thought to have been first used in 1954, but it gained legs as a concept with a 1997 PBS documentary of the same name and the subsequent book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (2001, revised in 2005, 2014). These works define affluenza as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more". The term "affluenza" has also been used to refer to an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because...

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch sort of like My Super Sweet Sixteen, but probably more serious

Mitch

3:59 PM

The title of the documentary, as far as my failing memory goes, was most likely not "Super Rich KIds - Dick or Not?"

Matt E. Эллен

My Super Sweet 16

My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality TV series documenting the lives of teenagers, usually in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, generally with wealthy parents who throw excessive coming of age celebrations. Parties include the quinceañera (a sweet 15), the sweet 16, and other birthdays including a My Super Sweet 21 (which was broadcast during MTV's Spring Break party) and My Super Swag 18. The show premiered on January 18, 2005 and ended its run on June 15, 2008. The opening theme is "Sweet Sixteen" sung by Hilary Duff. In retrospect, Bustle identified "the main 14 elements [or tropes...

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен Yes! if My Super Sweet Sixteen is what I just made up in my head was about.

Matt E. Эллен

MSS16 was erring on the side of "rich kids are dicks"

at least from what I saw

because that's more entertaining

Robusto

"I'm online till I habe tio get muy shot." Thanks, Autocorrect, for helping me with "I'm online till I have to get my shot."

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Robusto

4:01 PM

I mean, a perfect combo of English, German, and Spanish.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен What is this 'MTV' you kids keep talking about?

Robusto

Who knew?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch it's like regular TV.

Robusto

Only with an M.

Rumor has it the M used to stand for Music, but that can't be.

Matt E. Эллен

I think the M stands for Mainstream

Mitch

4:03 PM

@MattE.Эллен Neat. We have all the TV but I'm sick of the bad interfaces for Netflix and etc, so I go back to the regular 5000 channels which are easier to scan and find a movie I've seen many times before always starting from 1/2 hour in.

Robusto

Brookstone files for bankruptcy: mall stores will close. Waah! Where will I buy electric-heated neck pillows and travel kits with cocktail shakers in them?

Matt E. Эллен

lol. our TV broke, so we lost the 5 channels, and have to watch netflix on a laptop

Robusto

I hate watching Netflix on a computer, because I always feel like I should be working.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I used to say MTV ruined my attention span, what with all it's fast cuts and fast devil music, but now with friends gathering to stand in front of each other and text people who are not there, I feel like 'Heroin, what's the big deal?'

@Robusto At your local airport. But because of high security, you'll have to purchase a flight ticket to access the mall. But it's worth it.

@Robusto I've done that and it's not so bad as long as you move the laptop a few feet away so your hands aren't on the keyboard. closer to a TV feeling

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch The big deal on heroin, down at Doug's Discount Heroin Warehouse? He's doing crazy deals on Heroin, Opium, Methodone and many many Opiods! Get down there now!

Mitch

4:08 PM

@MattE.Эллен Methadone is stupid. I get better out of a double espresso.

Speaking of espresso...chocolate covered espresso beans should be a controlled substance

Robusto

I can't even watch a movie at home without checking a tablet or my phone now.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch chocolate covered, crystallised ginger is where it's at.

Mitch

I think I had three or four in the early afternoon once.. and then later that night I went to bed and fifteen minutes later I thought, that's weird I'm not asleep, and then another fifteen minutes later I thought, that's weird I'm not asleep, and then another fifteen minutes later I thought, that's really weird, why am I not asleep. The point is, I am usually a really good asleep-faller. 5 minutes tops.

Matt E. Эллен

and then you went downstairs and chewed a couple of beans to think it over

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен It doesn't taste as good if you're expecting a chocolate covered espresso bean.

a bit disconcerting

Matt E. Эллен

4:11 PM

or as bad

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен haha no. But I did stop having more than one at a time.

@MattE.Эллен I think I had one of those ginger things when I expected something that was not one of those things and it wasn't a good experience.

If I had only been warned a head of time, it might have been ok.

Something that is not OK even when warned ahead of time is bergamot lozenge.

Like when you have earl grey tea, there's this aftertaste of bergamot which makes it a weird but good tea.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch that's fair. life is like a box of chocolates where you're not warned a head of time what the centres are and so you just have to keep hoping that eventually you'll find one you like.

Mitch

but in the lozenge, pack about 50 cups of that tea into one small package, and suck on it.

That first whaff is very strong.

Matt E. Эллен

can't say I know what bergamot tastes like

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен does anyone like the brandy cream filled ones?

@MattE.Эллен it tastes like Earl Grey. There, now you know

Matt E. Эллен

4:16 PM

:D

Robusto

How to Use HondaLink® Find My Car on the 2018 Honda Accord

►

First tip is to touch the icon on your dashboard.

But if you're in the car I guess the car is much easier to find.

Matt E. Эллен

I put an icon on my forehead that I have to touch to locate my glasses. Usually my glasses are in the way, though, so I'll have to rethink the UI

Kit Z. Fox

4:38 PM

"I know Excel is a concern for some as well, but this is a low barrier to entry tool."

Yeah, great. Then you can use it and I will continue using my work management tool.

And when you catch up, we can talk then.

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Q: Word for a "qualitative statistical property"

For example, the "center" of a distribution is a ___ The sample mean is a measure of "center", and thus is not a ___ "Spread" is another ___ There are many measures of spread, e.g biased sample variance, biased sample standard deviation, IQR, etc. Other ___ include skewness and kurtosis.

single-word-requests

Mitch

5:04 PM

@KitZ.Fox Wait...what work management tool do you use? Just so you don't think I'm trolling, my work management tool is post it notes and Google Calendar. Do you mean like Trello or JIRA?

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch visual studio team services

Mitch

oh. I've never seen that.

or heard of it

Kit Z. Fox

it's the new version of team foundation services

it's a microsoft tool

it's pretty slick

mgmt doesn't know how to use it though, since they don't actually do the work, so even though they dictated the tech that we would use for work mgmt, they want us to give them information in excel.

so they can talk to each other and "plan" our work, and then send it back to us in excel for us to put back into the work mgmt tool

which consists of us ignoring it because they don't plan it correctly

Mitch

I have all sorts of negative things I could say about Microsoft but I'm always impressed by the Visual X editors. Are the Team Foundation Services integrated into that?

Kit Z. Fox

and then they get bitchy and want more information and details and meetings with us so they can do a better job "planning" the work.

which is us telling them what our work plan is and then how we made the work plan and then they tell us to put it in Excel, they hand it around, and then give it back to us as their work plan.

and tell us to put it back in the tool.

and also work faster

Mitch

5:10 PM

@KitZ.Fox Effing management. I've been through multiple cycles (OK probably just two) where 'mgmt' says they want to know progress and I'll say just ask me, and then they'll say they want metrics (but sure with talking about it at some point) and you get a system in place to give metrics that is avaiable to them or a print out directly in their hands, and they say...

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch yeah, microsoft has good stuff and bad stuff. I like their coding tools much more than I thought I would, and the extension into requirements and code management is getting better all the time.

Mitch

"Hey this is great work, but I want to see metrics about progress"

Kit Z. Fox

It was pretty crap a few years ago, but the newest iteration is effing hot.

Mitch

because mgmt can't read

uh... doesn't read, and don't know how to interpret effing bar charts with two bars

Kit Z. Fox

My beef is 1) we're an effing software development group, wtf are we doing putting anything that isn't spreadsheet information into a spreadsheet and 2) mgmt is making me do extra work because they can't be arsed to learn how to use my tools so they don't need to interrupt me.

and also I already have more projects that I can manage.

I mean, they can literally click on a link to see the feature plan for the next increment. I did my due diligence sorting that out because it is useful to me for planning as well.

And I keep shifting things around as more information comes in, and priorities change.

I should not be required to create an excel spreadsheet that has filled in boxes for which sprints I'm working what EVERY TIME we change priorities.

Mitch

5:30 PM

@KitZ.Fox I knew someone who set up some minimal system with JIRA (either in JIRA or as an Excel macro or what), I can't remember, that did that auto filled a spreadsheet with all the metrics you can see anyway in JIRA but now it's in a spreadsheet.

and that was one iteration of the thing I mentioned before. "OH that's great, but what is your progress on this other thing. And don't tell me to ask you, put it in a spreadsheet"

RegDwigнt

@Robusto good Elton Johns borrow. Great Elton Johns steal.

Ohai, Marc. I mean, Kit.

Mitch

Of course there is miscommunication all along the way, but still. In the end they should just ask.

RegDwigнt

JIRA sounds like the name of just the kind of tool people won't use simply because of how dumb its name is.

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Q: One who laughs on their own joke

Self-aggrandizing is a word that revolves in my mind, but in most of situations, it doesn't really suit for the one who laughs on their own joke, even when no body laughs.

single-word-requests phrase-requests

RegDwigнt

Laughs on.

What is this English.

What language is it "on" in.

In both Russian and German it's "over". Laugh over something.

Matt E. Эллен

5:42 PM

Google translate is a fun time. I translated "laugh at a joke" into Arabic and back and got "laugh as a joke". Then I translated "laugh towards a joke" to Arabic and back again and got "laugh at a joke".

so towards -> at -> as. I love machine translation

Mitch

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Hehe

Mitch

It sounds like Mission Impossible

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Casting handsome casting is the ultimate point

Mitch

No I mean how to cast the movie Mission Impossible

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

5:48 PM

@Mitch Man I'm so gonna watch Fallout

@Mitch To be fair, it's been more than just handsome faces

Mitch

It's pretty good. The ending is a lot like Avengers: Infinity War

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And Fallout is said to be the best, so I'm gonna watch it

@Mitch SPOILERS!

Matt E. Эллен

I guess they don't need to cast anyone after that ending

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Wait, I haven't watched Inf war

18 secs ago, by M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch SPOILERS!

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh. good. ending is pretty much the same

Matt E. Эллен

5:50 PM

you like spoilers, though! they make your car go faster

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

But I'm gonna watch it on Saturday

STOP SPOILING IT

@MattE.Эллен I don't have a car

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh wow, the scenery is amazing. Like few other movies ever but I can't think of any

Matt E. Эллен

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ then what's your spoiler attached to?

Mitch

and it's not like big fancy foreign cities. it's places you literally could never even get to yourself.

hm...I guess that's already literal. anyway, I wouldn't want you to get the wrong impression.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@MattE.Эллен The ceiling. Don't ask how it got there

Mitch

5:52 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ explosions galore

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I had this lamborghini

Mitch

people, regular and superhero, in dire peril

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch I'M GONNA BLOCK YOUR ARSE

Mitch

a timer that needs to be stopped

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Oh, it's called ignore here

Mitch

5:53 PM

a fight scene

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch Or the film will end?

Matt E. Эллен

so Josh Brolin and Wade Wilson turn up in a time machine and save rock and roll

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен WHA????

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch that's the end of Infinity Wars, or maybe that's just the ending in British cinemas

perhaps that's too gritty for American cinema goers

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I was surprised that Wade Wilson showed up. Mostly because I don't recognize that name.

Matt E. Эллен

5:54 PM

@Mitch (aka deadpool)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Chat has this weird bug

Grrr

@Mitch Pfft, comic noob

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I hear they had to bowdlerize HP and the Philospher's Stone because Hermione says 'poop'

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Or maybe just haven't watched Deadpool

Mitch

(that's my bowdlerization of the bowdlerization)

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch (good catch, it's a very sensitive audience)

Mitch

5:56 PM

@MattE.Эллен Ohhhhh. It's that guy?

the bartender?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch maybe. which bartender?

Mitch

What happened to Josh Brolin?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch Got a metal arm after Inf War

Mitch

Did he... (don't tell @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ) ... um

Matt E. Эллен

yeah, what he said

Mitch

5:59 PM

die?

Matt E. Эллен

nah

Mitch

Metal arm? That's not a big thing. Half of everybody in the movie has some prosthetic

Matt E. Эллен

Josh Brolin is an actor, rather than a character

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен shame

hahahha

Josh is OK.

@MattE.Эллен and Wade is not?

Matt E. Эллен

no, Wade is played by Ryan Reynolds

Mitch

6:01 PM

Oh.

Matt E. Эллен

but Josh is in both Deadpool 2 and Infinity War

but as different characters

Mitch

Sure I could look all this up on IMDB but what would be the fun in that when I can misunderstand everything that you guys say

Matt E. Эллен

:D

exactly

Mitch

and then misremember it, which will cancel out

@MattE.Эллен Oh. I thought the big guy with the rings was... wait for it... that guy whose name I can't remember

The guy who played Hellboy

Ron Perlman?

Matt E. Эллен

Yeah, I thought that too, but apparently not

Mitch

6:03 PM

same face, same voice, same cartoony unrealistic psychology

like what's his deal man?

Matt E. Эллен

I guess Thanos is cosplaying Ron Perlman?

Mitch

was he caught shoplifting when he was ten years old?

Matt E. Эллен

I don't know

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I can see that. Ron Perlman is so much bigger than life

literally

like 250 lbs, 6'6"

Matt E. Эллен

:-o

I'm 150 lbs, 5'8"

so

he's a lot bigger than me!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:16 PM

@MattE.Эллен Gee, I'm a lot bigger than you

150 lbs is 68 kilograms in English, according to Mr. Google

So, wow

Actually there are some grannies in the dialysis center that weigh 42-44 kilograms

Matt E. Эллен

well, I'm 70kg, but I rounded down for effect

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Maybe you're just the green head, without the body?

Matt E. Эллен

That's what I've been trying to tell people!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

So how do you breathe?

Insect-ish type of breathing?

Matt E. Эллен

Jan 5 at 17:26, by Matt E. Эллен

I'm a floating orc head. Everyone is below me!

In through the nose, out through the mouth

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:20 PM

Ew, you got lungs in that head?

Mitch

really? is that for like scuba diving or something?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

These insects I never understand

I was watching this Korean TV series, and the foretellers always talk in riddles?

Why the hell do they do that?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch I think it's for relaxation?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@MattE.Эллен I don't think I'll be relaxed at all if I can't close my mouth

Matt E. Эллен

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ good question. to know the answer you must answer these riddles three!

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ relax while breathe in

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:24 PM

@MattE.Эллен I mean, do you not want anyone else to come to you anymore? Talk like a normal human can understand . . .

Unless you're a fake

Matt E. Эллен

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 1 2 3

Robusto

6:44 PM

@RegDwigнt This just shows how literal-minded Germans are.

@MattE.Эллен Don't forget the spiracles.

Kit Z. Fox

@RegDwigнt Ohai! Sorry I missed you. I was out having tea with my little son.

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Q: Antonym of "outlier" suitable for statistics parlance?

For use in the example sentence: After the outliers had been removed, the ... were grouped with a disjoint set (aka. Union-Find). I lean towards inliers, but this seems wrong given the linked definition. Any thoughts?

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tchrist

Great answer. Why did you use a grave accent above the last 'e' in learned? Do you do the same for "blessed" and "cursed" when they're pronounced as two syllables? Is there a style guide that recommends this or were you taught to do this? — Zebrafish 2 hours ago

I need to think of something witty.

But my brain is not coöperating.

Kit Z. Fox

so much potential

tchrist

It’s of course a false dichotomy, but I'm sure he doesn't realize this. :)

Perhaps I should send him haring off to The New Yorker.

"I am my own style guide."

Kit Z. Fox

6:59 PM

"Because some of us read."

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