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Cerberus
Cerberus
2:00 AM
Well, why would I do so if don't have to?
 
Jasper
Jasper
@Mitch I read about some studies that say the latest generation doesn't like to use social media as much, because they are starting to see how silly it can be. Rather, more old people are using social media now, because it is such a novelty to them.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus And by answering that, you prove my point.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I can just type sqrt((6*7)²) into the address bar instead (then press enter).
Of course I am lazy.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus But you work so hard at being lazy! That is what I admire about you.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Thank you.
I prefer to call it efficiency.
Incidentally, do you know this app that lets you draw mathematical aequations on your phone?
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:02 AM
You can call it whatever you want. I'll call it our little secret.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It works really well.
 
Jasper
Jasper
@Cerberus I just press that on a calculator. I am sure Windows has a calculator.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus Some kind of MatLab or something?
 
Jasper
Jasper
@Cerberus You can just get a Windows touch screen for that now. Of course, the graphical equation editor in Word in Office works really well, and you can use a touch pen for that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
 
Jasper
Jasper
2:04 AM
@Robusto I never used Matlab, Maple, or Mathematica, the three M's.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus What brand of Android phone are you using now?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Still our old phone!
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus G4?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
G2!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Whoa!
I'm on a G6 now.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:05 AM
Impressive.
 
Jasper
Jasper
G1 must be extinct, LOL.
 
Robusto
Robusto
I broke my G4 trying to pull my cycling jersey over my head with the phone in the pocket. Duh.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Ouch!
Mine does have a cracked corner.
 
Robusto
Robusto
G2 is like 2014 or something.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah.
I probably got it in 2014 or 2015.
The only thing that bothers me, really, is that I'd like more RAM, more storage or an SD card, and Google Maps' being very slow.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:07 AM
G6 is awesome
I have a 128 GB SD card in mine.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Outside those things, everything still runs fine.
Nice.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I got my ZTE L111 this year, the cheapest phone I can find. About 40 USD.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
What do you like more about the G6 compared to the G4?
@Jasper Well done!
 
Jasper
Jasper
@Cerberus My previous phone which was free of charge got damaged and could not be used to make phone calls anymore. I don't care much about phones. But maybe one day if I am rich I might finally try an iPhone, LOL.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Nah, try a good, cheap Android.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:09 AM
@Cerberus Everything. Faster, more RAM, better screen, better camera, etc., etc.
 
Jasper
Jasper
The newest iPhones come in a lot of colours, like the newest Macbooks.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
What are acos and cosh? I only know inverted cosine, but I would write that as cos-1.
@Robusto OK OK.
 
Jasper
Jasper
acos is probably arc cos or cos inverse.
cosh is probably hyperbolic cosine.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I might want to get the Moto Z2 Force next, because it has an unbreakable screen.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus The h is for hyperbolic.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:10 AM
@Jasper Ahh arc, I have heard that term.
@Jasper Never heard of that!
 
Jasper
Jasper
sin, cos, tan are the trigonometric functions. sinh, cosh, tanh are the hyperbolic functions.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Trigonometry was my favorite math in high school. See? That is an example of hyperbole.
 
Jasper
Jasper
asin, acos, atan are the inverse trigonometric functions. asinh, acosh, atanh are the inverse hyperbolic functions.
In informal speech, we just pronounce sinh, cosh and tanh as shine, cosh, and tanch.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto I only know that definition...
 
Robusto
Robusto
I would pronounce sinh as "sinch" ...
@Cerberus You should learn where it comes from.
It's actually very interesting.
Also, it's Greek so you should already know.
 
Jasper
Jasper
2:13 AM
Oh sinch, yeah good idea to switch to that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hyper means over (those words are acually related), and bole must be from ballo, to throw, as in ballistic and metabolism.
But...
 
Robusto
Robusto
Hyperbolic function
In mathematics, hyperbolic functions are analogs of the ordinary trigonometric, or circular, functions. The basic hyperbolic functions are: hyperbolic sine "sinh" (), hyperbolic cosine "cosh" (),from which are derived: hyperbolic tangent "tanh" (), hyperbolic cosecant "csch" or "cosech" ( or ) hyperbolic secant "sech" (), hyperbolic cotangent "coth" (),corresponding to the derived trigonometric functions. The inverse hyperbolic functions are: area hyperbolic sine "arsinh" (also denoted "sinh−1", "asinh" or sometimes "arcsinh") and so on. Just as the points (cos t, sin t) form a circle with a...
You're welcome.
 
Jasper
Jasper
Interestingly, the trigonometric functions and hyperbolic functions can all be expressed in terms of the exponential function.
 
Robusto
Robusto
A parabola is a conic section. A hyperbola is a double conic section of a double cone reflected at the apex.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I am bad at conic sections. I know what a cone is though, LOL.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:16 AM
Okay.
I don't think we ever used those in school!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Technically both are curves, but you get what I mean.
 
Jasper
Jasper
The world is dumbing down on the high school math, but I think they still might teach hyperbolic functions in some high schools.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Parabolas are extremely useful. For example, we wouldn't have modern telescopes without them.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Well, of course parabolae are still taught!
I teach them too.
 
Jasper
Jasper
When you express s_n as a_n-a_(n-1) and you sum the s_n over n, that is called telescoping, LOL.
I read the storm in Italy already killed more than 10 people, and Venice got flooded or something.
 
Mitch
Mitch
2:22 AM
@Cerberus That's all I look at now. Google knows better than I do.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
How odd.
@Jasper I haven't read anything about that. I believe Venice gets flooded every year.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I just realised something. When I change say youtube to the dark theme, and then look at say SE chat which is bright, my eyes feel weird!!!
Maybe I shouldn't use the dark theme anymore!
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Jasper old people are dumb that way
@Jasper and verse vica
that's why exponential and log are multivalued in the complex plane
@Cerberus extra more badly flooded than usual
 
Jasper
Jasper
I got several views and likes on my channel just now after I woke up, amazing, LOL.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus why isn't it 'hypobolic' instead of 'elliptic'?
Is that a Q for ELU or math.SE?
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:27 AM
@Mitch You could phrase it as an SWR question.
 
Jasper
Jasper
SWR OMG LOL
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Jasper I get that too, when I'm tired.
@Mitch Hmm I didn't see anything in the papers?
@Mitch I don't know! Although those things mean different things.
 
Jasper
Jasper
The strongest wind I ever experienced was one day in school when it blew all the trays on the tables in the canteen off. Tens of trays just flew into the air, and flower pots and wall paintings crashed to the ground, and everyone laughed.
 
Robusto
Robusto
BTW, @Cerb, FF doesn't evaluate console expressions until you hit enter. Chrome does.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I like the built in Google Translate in Chrome.
If you install a Firefox addon for that it doesn't work so well.
And if you use Microsoft Edge and you use Google Mail or something, Google will prompt you to switch to Chrome, but if you use Firefox Google leaves you alone.
Speaking of calligraphy, that day in the bookstore I saw this brush and paper that allows you to reuse the paper because the ink will just vanish after a while like magic.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:37 AM
OK, I'm out. laterz.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Noted.
Adios!
Although I'm not 100% sure what evaluate means.
 
Jasper
Jasper
If you want to keep secrets you can write in invisible ink. Only someone with the secret substance can see the ink after applying it to the paper.
kthxbai
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:56 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer (161): word for a person that flirts with everyone? by Jessica on english.SE
 
cbinder
cbinder
4:15 AM
Growing plants is my hobby <-- Is it a correct sentence?
 
KannE
KannE
4:42 AM
@Mitch I'll just zooma-zooma-zooma-zoom there right now then.
 
tchrist
tchrist
More Anglo-American cultural imperialism:
1
Q: Bug in CSS for side menu while editing profiles in Spanish and Portuguese sites (inter alia)

tchristYou should not be applying the capitalize text-transform on international sites, because that’s wrong “culturally inappropriate” for those languages. This is because you have a bug in the last line here from your secondary-unified.css file: #side-menu ul ul li>a { width: 100%; padding: 8...

bug design localization languages capitalization
:)
 
KannE
KannE
5:19 AM
@cbinder Yes, if you put a period at the end. Another option: Growing plants is a hobby of mine. ( I have other hobbies.) But, this guy...really loves growing plants:
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

— David Hobson
@cbinder It seems like you may be having problems with gerunds. I'm not sure, but you may want to research those.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
5:45 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, pattern-matching website in answer, username similar to website in answer (211): "In regard to" or "in regards to" by Couponswebdeal on english.SE
 
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
7:17 AM
> Cocktail "The Mystery of Russian Soul". Pour 50 g of vodka, add 30 g of vodka, and mix this with 20 g of vodka.
3
 
 
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KannE
KannE
8:31 AM
So, I thought I'd check out the ELL site...it's so whack...
 
 
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Jasper
Jasper
9:38 AM
@KannE Yes. In fact, I was against it being created as a separate site from ELU, but now the two have gone their own ways and will never be one again forever.
@CowperKettle Yes. Some Russians died from drinking bath lotion alcohol instead of edible alcohol because they were too poor to buy vodka.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:24 AM
@Jasper Yes, because that batch of Boyaryshnik turned out counterfeit - it contained the wrong kind of alcohol.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title (195): what are the best online english learning courses in india? by Adrobook on english.SE
 
Mitch
Mitch
11:28 AM
@Cerberus what does 'hypobolic' mean?
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
12:46 PM
@KannE Is whack a good thing or bad?
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
@Mitch Hey Mitch...
hmmm, what does hypobolic mean? I didn't find it in a search, but I assume it's an understatement?
Or maybe as "bole" comes from Greek to throw, maybe it's to throw something like a little girl. Or boy, little boys are also weak, generally speaking...
Actually little anybodys are generally weak.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish ¿Sí?
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Damn you with your special characters, I'm so envious.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish It took me a while to find it and then cut and paste
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Do you just remember the alt + number combos?
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:00 PM
holy crap no
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
oh, hahahah
 
Mitch
Mitch
I can never remember how to even 'alt+' in any case
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Ummm, asking and answering your own questions here is encouraged, right? or only osmetimes?
Cause I had a mental blank, it was on the tip of my tongue for ages, a mausoleum that doesn't contain the remains of the deceased....
 
Mitch
Mitch
but to hypobolic I think I know what it should mean, but it is not a recognized word, but it is the logical antithese to hyper bolic, and there is a mathematical schema in which it goes hyperbola/parabola/(what we call)ellipse, and ellipse is the odd man out and I swear when I become ruler of the universe, 'ellipse' is out and 'hypobolic' is in.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Took me a while, but I found the answer, and I'm thinking there's no point posting a question to which I know the answer... or is there?
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:03 PM
I'm just wondering if 'hypobolic' has an accepted meaning nowadays, and which fleas will I crush with my terminological edicts.
@Zebrafish Oh???
Empty mausoleum?
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
hmmm, musings about what to do if you become ruler, yeah I've had those
hahahaha
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish There have been essays written in multiple metas about how answering your own question is encouraged...
but...
1) it is hardly ever done, and
2) it always seems a little strange/creepy, like talking about onesself in the third person
3) can be done and done well, but I think it is rare.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
To point number 2, I agree, and I don't want to feel like a , douche, pardon my French, by doing it....
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish Reestablish diplomatic relations with Tonga
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
So let's say I post a question to which I already know the answer, and let someone else answer it?
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:07 PM
@Zebrafish douché!
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
hahaha
i think it's french for shower
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish It feels very disingenuous, like "dude, you already know the answer, and you knew all along you were going to accept your own, why did I bother answering?!!."
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
No because, ok i'll tell you what happened. I was reading a BBC article where they mentioned Mausoleum, and I thought "That's not a mausoleum!", but I got mausoleum mixed up with this other word which specifically means it's a mausoleum or monument without the deceased's remains at that location...
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish and 'touché' is french for 'touched' or 'you got me' in fencing.
@Zebrafish and...?
what is it man? we need to know!
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
oh..... now I get the pun, me very slow
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:09 PM
it is pun's that are impossible to get all the time here
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
No so if I do post the question my intention would be totally to let someone else answer it, because as I said I don't want to appear to be a shower
 
Mitch
Mitch
What a shower!
doesn't have the same ring to it
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Anyway, the word I found, it's cenotaph, ceno being greek for "empty" and "taph" I'm not sure
 
Mitch
Mitch
maybe a bath tub ring?
@Zebrafish I think that would make a very good question. And if nobody gets it after a day (or they answer badly) then you could come in with your own answer and say truthfully that you did some research and eventually found it.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
anyway, I probably won't ask the question, I figured it out, after a while
No I really dont' want to answer my own question, I was going to let someone else answer it, but now i'm thinking what's the point of even asking if I know? And to that I'm thinking someone might stumble across it and go "that's interesting"
Anyway, i'm too lazy to do it anyway anymore, so that's that
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:13 PM
there are really easy questions that are asked here all the time that would be answered by looking in a dictionary or thesaurus even if briefly that are not worth a question.
But those are both interesting words that are not common but not impossibly rare.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
about very simple questions, like "is this sentence correct", should they be migrated to ELL?
I've seen some really really simple ones, I don't think they have been
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish and then there's that. we've spent more energy discussing the possibility than we'd ever have given to creating and answering the plain question.
@Zebrafish they certainly don't belong here. They're asking for proofreading/2nd language learning advice, and that is totally not what ELU is about.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Also this question, this really seems to belong to another site doesn't it? what do song lyrics mean, english.stackexchange.com/questions/470557/…
 
Mitch
Mitch
the difficulty is that it may well be off-topic on ELL too. I don't know their policies
in the grand scheme of things, yes it is more in the direction of ELL than ELU.
@Zebrafish it's been long standing ELU policy that baldly explaining song lyrics and jokes are off topic questions because it is too opinionated.
But there are always counterexmaples for things that pose general interest.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
I see... yes...
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:18 PM
like the 'explain this dalai lama pizza (or is it hot dog) joke'
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
OK I don't know what that is, but it sounds funny
ohhh hthat one... yes i've heard it
make me one with everything
 
Mitch
Mitch
One of the best questions ever was the 'why is the 'Y' on this ball represented with an axe?' and that was ostensibly off topic (it's like asking why a word is misspelled). Great question.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
i remember talk show host telling it to the dalai lama himself, and he was just in fits of laughter, and the dalai lama's face was just expressionless
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish and when he pays for it and expects something back?
"Change comes from within"
hahahha hah ahha
oh me.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
yeah I saw that 'Y' question, interesting
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:20 PM
@Zebrafish Yeah that was priceless
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
wait you saw it too? did it spread around the world?
It was an Australian talk show host
 
Mitch
Mitch
yeah. probably a link at that question here.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
I don't know if you give a rat's about politics or Trump, but have you heard of this really weird tweet by trump?
specifically a video tweet
 
Mitch
Mitch
> Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
@Mitch hahahaha, what?
Ah yes, one of those days... I can relate
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:28 PM
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Wow, Wodehouse was either really insightful or really sick. Interestingly I found that quote completely with no context, which makes it especially weird.
 
Mitch
Mitch
but it is very tiring.
@Zebrafish he is mostly about the understated bon mot
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
I still got a backlog of about 3 star wars movies to wtach, I lost count after.... about 2003...
 
Mitch
Mitch
> What ho!' I said.

'What ho!' said Motty.

'What ho! What ho!'

'What ho! What ho! What ho!'

After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.'
@Zebrafish I can't speak to you
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
hahaha
@Mitch Is Big Brother watching?
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:31 PM
@Zebrafish But, on reflection, they're actually not that good. They're all riding on the first one, even the critically acclaimed 'Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'
I kinda liked 'Solo'. That's not a popular opinion.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Actually I haven't any movies in ages, so nothing against star wars
So anyway, look at your president's latest tweet about immigration twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1057728445386539008 He's used the same convict from a previous campaign video, likening him to illegal immigrants.... just.... wow!
 
Mitch
Mitch
But also the whole Star Wars thing is not particularly deep. As nerdy and cringy as Star Trek is, at least it is thoughtful.
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Yeah I have heard, star wars is sci fi without the real sci fi that star trek has, I think I heard Neil de Grasse Tyson say that
 
Mitch
Mitch
Not those JJ Abrams atrocities - those are (admittedly well-made) schlock action movies, that happened to have been stamped with Star Trek wall paper.
Any more opinions that will get me strung up when the revolution comes?
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
@Mitch Oh, I htink I've one of them, if you're tlaking about the newer star trek movies
@Mitch I think you're pretty safe, it's not like you're in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, then again, if and when the revolution comes you'll probably be killed just for thinking
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:37 PM
@Zebrafish It's like a drunk used-car salesman got lost backstage at the day-time Emmy's but was shuffled on stage because he had a nice suit and said that Susan Lucci deserved an award
@Zebrafish stops thinking
erases past thinking
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
ahhaha
 
Mitch
Mitch
thinks about what I've done
goddammit
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
Yeah life should be like a video game, you should be able to save your progress, and then reload if you mess up big time
So did you see Trump's tweet? Is it only me who finds that.... crazy? I mean whether pro or against.... don't people see that as freakin crazy?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Zebrafish I didn't see and probably won't. I stopped when you said "Trump..."
There are so many levels of awful
 
Zebrafish
Zebrafish
1:55 PM
HAhaha, (my transcription) Trump: How ridiculous is it, we're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 with all those benefits.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:11 PM
@Cerberus For example, if you type 4*3/12 into the Chrome console, after 4*3 it shows 12 and then after /12 it shows 1 before you hit enter.
If you're writing a lengthy expression this can be helpful. It also works with DOM expressions.
For example, if you select a node in the Elements panel and type $0.getAttriguteNames() it will return those (e.g., ["id","class"], etc.).
Open the panel and select the body element on this page and you get (3) ["id", "class", "cz-shortcut-listen"], and this expression is evaluated before you hit return in Chrome.
Is it too late to be frightened by 1930s animation?
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
3:26 PM
@Zebrafish He's feeding the crazies. His narcissism and sociopathy know no bounds.
 
Robusto
Robusto
4:26 PM
@Cerberus: At any rate, I use Chrome mainly because the dev tools are better. I use Firefox for a lot of browsing, though, just to mix it up and to make sure Google doesn't know everything about me.
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
@DanBron That's for sure.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
4:40 PM
@Robusto That does sound convenient.
So math and DOM expressions.
@Mitch Hypo- (hupo) means "under", related to "sub".
Proto-Indo-European s often becomes h in Greek.
September, Heptateuch.
Semi-dry, hemisphaere.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
@MetaEd Did you hop in your Delorean to respond to that comment?
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
@DanBron Ah, that explains the bruise on the top of my head.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
must have been the flux concussioner
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
4:55 PM
@Zebrafish as all things Trump, first and foremost it is factually incorrect.
The US is not the only country of the world that does that.
Indeed, even coutries that don't do that like switching to doing that when it suits them. The prime example being times of war, when you need as many new soldiers as you can possibly get. So you declare everyone your citizen.
And as you well know, the US has been at war for pretty much 300 years straight now. So it makes perfect sense actually.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I no longer care about what Trump says because he just talks rubbish.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I never cared about what he said, so I don't need to adapt.
 
Jasper
Jasper
And every day you see his rubbish in the news.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
All Presidents lie. What Trump has done, which makes him different, and in some ways more successful than his predecessors in the sense they would have enjoyed such freedom, is lying so frequently, so consistently, so blatantly, and with such disregard for getting caught, that he's decriminalized lying as a POTUS
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@CowperKettle but that's just 100g of vodka. What about the other 400g?
 
Jasper
Jasper
4:58 PM
What is worrying though is how so many people actually listen and believe his rubbish.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
to the extent that his fanbase assumes he's telling the truth and the factcheckers are the partisan hacks lying to move their agenda
I worry this is setting a precedent
 
Jasper
Jasper
It's almost unbelievable that American politics has degenerated to such a level.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Nah, things been that way since Neanderthal.
You're giving Americans too little credit. Or too much.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
"The sky is pink!" -- POTUS "No, the sky is blue" -- CNN "FAKE NEWS CON JOB" -- POTUS "The sky is blue" -- Scientists "Conspiracy by the Chinese!" -- POTUS "The sky is blue" -- normal people with common sense "Liberal mob suppressing freedom of speech" -- POTUS nod, nod -- POTUS base
 
Jasper
Jasper
November is nanowrimo month. Who is taking part? @MattE.Эллен are you?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
5:04 PM
Yes please, we need more things that nobody reads.
 
Jasper
Jasper
It is raining heavily outside. That usually happens when I am very sad.
I thought of a nice way to describe raining.
You can say the sky is leaking water.
That was inspired by the username Leaky Nun.
I think the owl looks majestic @RegDwigнt.
I already set my browser to accept cookies, but so many websites still tell me about cookies when I visit them.
Funny story. I preordered a book, publication delayed, order cancelled automatically, then preordered again, then delayed again, then cancelled automatically again, then preordered again, LOL.
In fact, I have been waiting for this book for 6 years, true story, LOL.
I wonder why Microsoft changed the default font in Word from Times New Roman to Calibri. I am trying out Calibri in my browser now as well. It looks smaller so I have to set the size to be bigger.
kthxbai
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
5:24 PM
@Jasper Rain can remind you to return to the present.
 
Jasper
Jasper
5:39 PM
@MetaEd What you just wrote is very important to me, thank you.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus Exactly. So is 'hypobola' a word that meant anything ever to anybody, as hyperbola and parabola do? And why wasn't hypobola used instead of ellipse?
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Mitch Would "hypobola" and "hyperbola" basically sound the same in a non-rhotic dialect?
 
Mitch
Mitch
They're hard enough to distinguish already
hypodermic hyperdermic
hyponym hypernym
hypoactive hyperactive
hypothesis ---
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
5:56 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer (173): The maximum number of active participants HAS exceeded or IS exceeded? by Iknowwhereyouwork on english.SE
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Jasper I'm not sure. We'll see what my workload is like
@RegDwigнt ha! You read things I've written even if I didn't write them.
 
Jasper
Jasper
6:15 PM
Only today did I realise I can use my touchpad in more ways than I have been using it, that it is much more than a mouse. So embarrassing!
I see you updated your website! Lots of stuff have disappeared @MattE.Эллен.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
Touchpads have a lot of hidden features, and Apple really makes elegant use of them
I was a hardcore keyboard cowboy for a long time - keyboard shortcuts for everything, no time to take my hands off the keyboard to touch a mouse
but now that's faded and I make a lot of use of the touchpad
I think the switch from MS to OSX was the key driver
 
Jasper
Jasper
@DanBron Yes, you really need to look at the new Retina Macbook Air 2018!
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
also in my career I've moved more into the biz end and further from the transistors
No way, I don't want to have the urge to drop $7K on a laptop
this one is fine
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Jasper yes, I thought I should smarten it up a bit, make it look less like it was made in the late 90s
 
KannE
KannE
@Mitch People use it in different ways...I meant it like...Whaat is going on here? I can't really understand the questions (many, and I tried)...and some of the answers...well, it's like when my Deaf family try to conjugate be verbs...it gives me an Aww-Nooo feeling.
 
Jasper
Jasper
6:26 PM
@MattE.Эллен But all the interesting stuff now seems to be gone!
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Jasper which stuff do you mean?
 
Jasper
Jasper
@MattE.Эллен Like what you did in what year, but maybe there is still some of that left now.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MattE.Эллен well yes, I always read things you don't write. But my point was more like, I never read things that you do.
 
Jasper
Jasper
Not funny, LOL
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Not funny is my first name.
Like literally. My first name is not funny.
 
Jasper
Jasper
6:33 PM
I think I will replace Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New on my computer with Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas respectively.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
Someone could do that for me like a Folger's ad and I literally would not notice
Reg, you don't need to tell us, Muscovites are not famed for their humor.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well that's because nobody can fucking read Russian.
I told them as much.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Jasper there is a select time line of what I've done, although I don't have touch scroll working on it yet
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
But every time they tried to write a Q or an R, they ended up with Д or a Ж.
Remember, vodka.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@RegDwigнt that's some trick!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
6:38 PM
In Soviet Russia, Matt's books read me.
That's why I fled, quite frankly.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Well, the book is psychic, so that's fair
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well Matt, how about this.
 
KannE
KannE
@Jasper It Rains Because You're Sad, Baby. youtube.com/watch?v=hLiZ5xI_zi0
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I just wrote a Christmas song.
I don't have any lyrics for it.
I do that like every day.
How about you go and write something.
Like, I know you're good with limericks and shit. Mostly the latter. But also limericks.
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
If I ever open a restaurant, I am 100% calling it PECTOPAH.
In Latin letters. The real stuff. None of that Cyrillic nonsense.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
6:44 PM
Why not just call it MOCKBA, then.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@RegDwigнt what kind of mood does it have?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Not as much of a mouthful. The mouthful should be in the restaurant, not outside.
@MattE.Эллен it's a Christmas song. They're all the same.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
There are somber ones, joyful ones, angry ones...
 
Dan Bron
Dan Bron
That's the name of the 2nd restaurant, vegetarian, serving mock foods like soyburgers
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
If you're really interested I can just dump the sheet music somewhere right now. Well I say right now, but I mean, I will need to remember how to open MuseScore. That should take but a decade, hold on.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
6:47 PM
That probably wouldn't help me, I'm no good at reading music 😅
There once was a jolly old rat
Whose belly had got very fat
It dressed all in red
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
MuseScore will play it back for you. Though using a horrible synthesized sound.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Flew round in a sled
And stole all the presents from cats
Full disclosure: I'm allergic to cats, and I had a pet rat
 
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