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Ward - Trying Codidact

Feb 8 05:29

@JourneymanGeek Who are they arguing with on SU? The OP that comment is on?

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 24, 2024 08:58

@user9517 Do you still look at Strava?

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 24, 2024 08:55

Was sitting in a hotel lobby in Shanghai and a school group from Singapore checked in, about grade 5 I think.

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 14, 2024 07:12

In Macau now, still cool at 26

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 13, 2024 23:45

It's gloriously cool in the morning here, only 24

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 10, 2024 15:11

So far, HK doesn't seem too different from 20 years ago, but even though it's not big in terms of area, there's a lot going on here and we didn't see all that much of it 20 years ago and we won't be able to see that much of it this time, either.

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 9, 2024 13:57

Brutal! The friend of a relative's place we're staying has ACs in 4 of the 6 rooms.

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 9, 2024 13:55

Now that I look at a map, I never really thought about how much closer to the equator you are... plenty hot enough here for me!

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 9, 2024 13:50

Last time I was here, my wife was pregnant, this time we're here with our 20 yr old daughter...

Ward - Trying Codidact

May 9, 2024 13:45

@JourneymanGeek I'm in the same time zone as you! In Hong Kong for a few weeks.

Ward - Trying Codidact

Apr 30, 2024 06:31

Got the same problem with trades here (Vancouver Canada) as Singapore and (I assume still) Liverpool. Earlier today I was reading minutes of an apartment owner's association meeting where they commented that the limited availability of contractors is a huge problem for planning and budgeting maintenance projects.

Ward - Trying Codidact

Sep 6, 2023 05:37

@yagmoth555 Better hurry before the snow buries it!

Ward - Trying Codidact

Sep 5, 2023 20:23

@vidarlo Comment lock applied and the user was suspended.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 22, 2023 00:15

@GratefulDisciple I think the answer you got on SU is about right: coax and twisted pair are pretty good at self-shielding, but not perfect, and who knows about the emf shielding on a cheap cable modem (they're all cheap). I assume the black cable is your entrance cable from your meter, so that's potentially carrying 100+ peak amps, and 10s of amps regularly, so I could see that inducing some spurious signals when you had the coax close to it.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 20, 2023 22:05

Thanks, I see more channels to try to catch up on now...

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 20, 2023 22:04

I guess... I don't have much insight to add, but want to follow what's going on.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 20, 2023 22:01

@GypsySpellweaver As per comment in discord

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 16, 2023 19:17

@user9517 According to the latest update to the experiment, they've received enough feedback for now and are shutting it off.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 13, 2023 20:30

Meanwhile, various mods have not just poked holes in SE's analysis, but have found huge gaping voids in their reasoning. I'm not even trying to keep up with everything posted about this, I just look in on discussions every now and then. The latest thing I noticed was a mod who found one user on SO who posted 14 very-likely-AI-written answers today. But SE's conclusion is that there are only about 15-20 AI posts total on SO in a day.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 12, 2023 01:01

I forget how the saying goes: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 6, 2023 23:20

SF has been dead as a "community" ever since the CluelessN00b incident and then everyone moved to Slack, so there's no community to care for. I see @JourneymanGeek still refers to the community on SU, but I don't think there is one here.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Jun 6, 2023 23:19

@I^H^H @user9517 I don't stick around so much because I care about SF, but because I like to know what's going on. There are still a few SE sites where I mostly read and learn (e.g. Engineering, Home Improvement) and it's nice to have mod access to know what's happening on SE overall.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 29, 2021 08:43

Post to keep the room active...

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Sep 24, 2020 04:10

Maybe we could initiate it without waiting for him... :)

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Sep 24, 2020 04:01

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Sep 24, 2020 03:58

@MichaelHampton You should apply for re-instatement, then I won't need to blindly approve all your flags...

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Sep 20, 2020 03:28

@JeffSchaller Thanks for flagging all those plagiarized posts!

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Apr 15, 2020 20:39

@JourneymanGeek I voted for you and a few others, but although I hope it goes well, I think you're a bit nuts to be taking on even more free work for SO Inc.

Ward

Oct 8, 2019 07:58

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

Ward

Oct 8, 2019 07:58

testing

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:11

It looks like SE is fine with that, but I don't see a way to combine that with the type of community building they used to say they wanted.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:10

My involvement goes up and down, I go through long phases of reading and voting on a lot (and reviewing) and then phases of not so much. But the modocolypse has literally stirred up a lot of stuff, I've read a lot more TL and meta.SO and got a sense of what SE might be doing

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:08

Anyway, it's interesting.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:08

@yagmoth555 maybe isn't from "the good old days" but has the same mind-set I think.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:07

I dunno if you replaced us all w/ new mods if it'd work

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:07

I think it helps that most of the mods are from the days when there was a community

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:07

For some definition of "running"

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:07

I'm saying SF is SE running w/out a community

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:06

Not much drama, 'cause the mods don't care enough to really go after anything, so they/we just knock off the really bad stuff that no one's gonna miss.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:05

I think SF might be a indicator of the way it'll be... a few mods to handle the few things that get flagged as particularly bad and to clean up some of the crap we see.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:04

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:04

Yeah, but that sort of fits... less concern about the quality of ads because they're gonna be shown to everyone and they don't care if the "regulars" don't like it.

Ward

Oct 5, 2019 01:03

Maybe it can be pulled off... storage is cheap, so storing the crappy stuff doesn't cost much, and maybe if enough new people come in and see a couple ads that's enough income to keep it all running.

The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…

General discussion for scifi.stackexchange.com, both on-topic ...

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 20:56

The remake with Lisa Bonet is awful, stick to the 1980 version if you want to watch it.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 20:55

The Lathe of Heaven

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Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 20:55

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot concerns a character whose dreams alter past and present reality. The story was first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The novel received nominations for the 1972 Hugo and the 1971 Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1972. Two television film adaptations have been released: the PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network. == Title == The title is taken from the writings of...

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 20:55

I thought it was obvious, but then I'm a lot older than most people on SE... I saw the movie on PBS when it came out.

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 05:13

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 05:13

Ward - Reinstate Monica

Nov 24, 2019 05:12

This is a real political sign from the recent Canadian federal election, with taglines that I added. Real sci-fi fans will find it amusing without needing to google...