The Awkward Silence

7:52 AM

Morning

@lila XD

i like it

morning

8:16 AM

@ExtrovertedMainMan Quite odd one

academically rigorous, I guess there wasn't a practical example. Or maybe they're editing and undeleting later :)

There is a lot to say. It reminds me this xkcd "I can't go to sleep. Someone is WRONG on the internet"

Well I can understand that frustration at least, having a family that's very susceptible to misinformation and proudly proclaiming such misinformation like they are so smart... :|

It's definitely relatable, this is why the xkcd is funny

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

@Tinkeringbell :/

8:30 AM

@Tinkeringbell I sincerely hope nothing really harmful. When it comes to my father his misinformation are only bad for morale, nothing severe.

@ArthurHv So far, nothing very harmful, just very annoying. Though they're kinda being covidiots.

8:41 AM

I have a question regarding work organisation

we have 3 teams of respectively 4 2 and 2 devs. Two managers, one for the "big" team and the other for the two other teams. All that working on the same product but different parts. At some point I threw the idea we could be more efficient without being so much in silos. Now I'm having a meeting about that and I'm not sure what to bring up

Have an example ready of when being on e.g. a single team would work better than on three?

Not really, nothing that practical, it's a gut feeling, that's probably the issue

I have different examples from different settings that don't translate well in our domain

but like at some point it has been said managing a team of 6 as a product owner is too much workload and I'm very surprised and skeptical about that

I think what drived me initially is the amazement 8 developers could necessitate two fulltime unproductive roles, three if you count the CTO, to meet organizational needs

Well there's nothing wrong with gut feelings, but do these people know it was just that? ;)

I've been clear on it I think

nonetheless they would like we discuss the matter

Well, then I'd go in open minded, listen to their questions and try to answer them as best as you could, and perhaps listen to their arguments and ask questions as well.

9:07 AM

hi

9:18 AM

hi...? I can definitely hear something, but is it you talking or the crickets chirping? :D

@lila heyo

@IPSCommentBot is always listening for cats :P

@lila I think it was the sound of my brain breaking over this bug.

Ael

@IPSCommentBot Oh, so cute!

9:37 AM

@Tinkeringbell :D

11:00 AM

has anyone used SikuliX or know an GUI automation tool i can use on Linux?

PyAutoGUI looks more documented

I might go for that one

11:14 AM

nevermind that github.com/asweigart/pyautogui/issues/133

11:36 AM

"Dear manager, I've looked around and can't find a place to report malfunctioning iPhones. Do you know where I can get someone to look at mine?"

"Dear Tink, here's the link for ordering a new one. How long have you had yours?"

Okay. Was I speaking Frisian or something ?!

11:51 AM

@Tinkeringbell XD

Apple: use your iphone to prevent e-waste!

Employer: eh, we'll just buy a new one

honestly i can't blame them

Yeah, the corporate social responsibility is strong with this one. I've sent back an e-mail thanking him for the link, but that I really think all I need is a new battery, not an entirely new phone.

repairing iphones is a costly service

@Tinkeringbell oof, the battery automatically needs to be replaced on an apple store due to being serialized

Srsly? I'm pretty sure I can just buy replacement batteries online?

@Tinkeringbell what's your model?

SE

12:01 PM

2020?

or the old one

ifixit.com/News/45921/is-this-the-end-of-the-repairable-iphone

fixjeiphone.nl/onderdelen/iphone-se/iphone-se-batterij is the part I need.

Lot cheaper than buying a whole new phone, if it's just battery.

oh it's the old one

should be fine?

@Tinkeringbell true

I've never known employers to be happy when an employee starts tinkering (sorry...) with their own phone though

@CaldeiraG You say that like it's old, old... mine is just a few years, for a phone that's only used for calls and 2FA, it should not need replacing or parts by a long way.

@Jeroen I know ;) I'll ask mine if I can try myself if I can't find a link...

before actually trying

Yeah, of course. They'll probably toss it otherwise, so why not ask..

12:08 PM

@Tinkeringbell old one is not that old

just the 1gen one

There's a whole stack of ~2.5 year old iphones at my employer, with the new ones being used for 2FA like yours.. It's insane

was released in '16

@CaldeiraG Yeah and I'm sure I only got mine in something like '18.

Can't find the exact date though.

well if you care about repairability, don't make your employer buy a new one :P

you probably will pay about 60 to repair it on that website you linked, 13 plus and an hour or two for servicing it

@Jeroen heyo there o/

@CaldeiraG I mean, if I have the battery I can do the replacing myself, I've seen it on youtube it's not that hard. The problem is mostly with finding out if it's the battery that needs replacing or if that won't fix the problem

12:16 PM

@Tinkeringbell oh neat

that's the hard part

@CaldeiraG \o

2:04 PM

The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.

in Root Access, 6 mins ago, by CaldeiraG

> In October 2010, Munroe's fiancée was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer; there had been no prior family history. The emotional effect of her illness was referenced in the comic panel "Emotion", published 18 months later in April 2012. In September 2011, he announced that they had married. In December 2017, Munroe summarized the time since his wife's cancer diagnosis in a comic entitled "Seven Years". He revisited the subject in November 2020 in a comic entitled "Ten Years".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe

:(

atleast it has a happy ending :)

2:32 PM

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Thank to you, TAS kind of give me the feeling of a personal aquarium <3

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3:03 PM

Haha I am happy then :D ><ջֆձՇ(°>

@ArthurHv I have Animal Crossing, and they did a really great job on a museum section with fish... that one is very mesmerizing too :D Might seem silly, but I can stare at digital aquariums just as long as real life ones :D

Ael

@Tinkeringbell I can too. In both case I find it boring and stop quickly :p

3:20 PM

I realize that I'm a bit obsessed on fish and aquariums, maybe it's been enough, okay let's change topic to something different. Maybe let's talk about travel? Okay, so: I like visiting sea coastline small cities, they are peaceful and there are a lot of restaurants with delicious fried fish. And my father has been on a Bornholm trip for hobbyist cod fishing. Now your turn <°)ֆֆֆֆ><

Q: Anybody ever had a clingy friend?

@Ael Noo! Fish are so nice to look at, especially the colourful reef ones, or rays :D

SmokeDetector

3:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer (168): How can I convey to my dad that I like that he buys me things, but sometimes they are just not my taste? by okk on interpersonal.SE

Extroverted Main Man

4:25 PM

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I have a workmate and I've known her for about 7 months already. She is very touchy with me recently and I'm really confused with her because we are both girls and she presently have a boyfriend. It all started when she invited me for a dinner at restaurant and had some talks. We both enjoyed it ...

online-interaction

8:55 PM

I crossed the street at red light today and once I started crossing the girl that was waiting followed and also crossed, I have confirmed leadership skills, ask me anything you want, I consider myself the guru now :D

Oh okay, right, I forgot: evening = crickets chirping time :/

*chirp chirp

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@JacobB :D

@lila those are my cricket friends :)

Haha and mine too, at mornings Awkward Silence goes "hi, hello, morning, greetings!" and at evenings it goes "hi, hello, good evening!"... no, sorry but, but that's not correct; at evenings it goes "chirp chirp", and the chirping sound isn't even genuine, it's digitally distorted, it's as similar to real chirping as my ascii crickets are similar to real ones.

Oh and my most recent invention, guppy fish:

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9:13 PM

wow, that's quite the tail on that guppy!

Haha yes, better not house him with known fin nippers!

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Guess the animal. ^

Okay if maybe it's hard: head is left and tail is right.

10:21 PM

@lila my guess is a kuhli loach.

@JacobB Oh I'm actually amazed by your level of detail, even though it's not what I meant, my intention was to be 100% happy with a simple answer just saying that it's a snake, I wanted it to be easy for all people from Awkward Silence, maybe I should have said that it's a reptile :D but considering the whole context of having posted hundreds of fish recently, I understand that nobody is a mind reader and so you assumed it's a fish, and yes kuhli loach is the most reasonable guess...

...and thus okay we have a winner :D

:)

11:44 PM

And currently the Awkward Silence seems to be overtaken, there are only 2 people in the room and 1 bot, and these 2 people are from Pets. Or actually to be accurate, Drones and Pets :D

Okay now a little riddle that requires 160 IQ to solve:

@IPSCommentBot From Wikipedia: "Bacteria or fungi convert the organic nitrogen within the remains back into ammonium NH4+, a process called ammonification."

And the mentioned riddle: why in the world did the bot reply to me with a cat picture if all I did was explain a part of nitrogen cycle?

@IPSCommentBot Wikipedia is also a great base of knowledge for minerals. What about asbestos?
> Asbestos is a term used to refer to six naturally occurring silicate minerals.

@IPSCommentBot do you have more cats

11:57 PM

@IPSCommentBot cat

And I was just about to continue and talk about these long and fibrous crystals of asbestos, but all the bot had to say on this topic was a cat photo, how is this not an evidence that bot only pretends to listen? :(

@JacobB Haha what a shame it doesn't respond to "fish" :D

The bot just has infinite cats, no fish :)

@IPSCommentBot do you have a dog