The Awkward Silence

Welcome to The Awkward Silence! Here, you can find the general...
JAD
Mar 5, 2020 08:17
antivirus
JAD
Mar 5, 2020 08:14
get Norton on the line stat
JAD
Mar 5, 2020 07:29
o/
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 14:52
@Magisch that'll eventually net you a -100% raise I think
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 14:27
does that include HNQ traffic?
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 13:43
alternatively, the expression nani the f*ck
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 13:40
NANI?!
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 12:23
it's something that is done a lot here when passing personal information by phone
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 12:23
@ExtrovertedMainMan I think a pretty common solution for this is to ask them to echo it back to you
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 11:49
@Belle anywhere from Dordrecht until Gouda is a daily parking lot
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 11:00
that's good. A friend commutes from Dordrecht and complains a lot about that
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:55
commuting into R'dam always sounds like fun :/
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:55
ah
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:54
all the way to zeeland? :P
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:54
:O
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:52
bad git settings?
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:42
area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30013/what-is-platon also sheds exactly 0 light on that question
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:41
@CaldeiraG looks pretty vague to be honest
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:03
it's a windows setting where you can control the mouse with your numpad. 5 is click, + is double click, holding them down spams clicks
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 10:02
That game was pretty fun, until my mousekeys started crashing my browser
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:54
so I don't consider it a waste of time, even if little useful came out of it
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:54
similarly, I've spend a LOT of hours playing games, but at the time I had fun
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:53
Time enjoyed wasting isn't time wasted
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JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:45
so I have fanatic on all but a few sites
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:45
which had the side-effect of counting as activity on all sites
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:45
I used to have a userscript that'd check my flag-counts on all sites
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:42
It's funny how easy it is to spot my vacation weeks in my daily activity
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:42
me neither
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:40
but my activity on the entire network has been reduced to chat and read-only for the time being
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:38
also nifty, if you click on the stat you get a calendar with which dates you visited
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:37
and I used to lurk HNQ a lot
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:37
pretty much
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:36
but I often use the url in this room's description to go to SE, so that might inflate the numbers a bit
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:35
@Ælis it wouldn't surprise me if most of that was in the past
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:35
SFF is 698/1, Code review is 678/1
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:34
ips
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:33
679/3 for me
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 09:32
for a sec I thought that was consecutive
JAD
Mar 4, 2020 07:55
@El'endiaStarman I'd prefer something like abs(x) < 0.005, that way you only have one comparison (so less chance to mess up a refactor)
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 14:38
@Ælis I feel that misunderstandings tend to escalate quicker though
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 14:37
@brug welcome to all business communication ever :P
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 14:00
also, meeting o/
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 14:00
I think I've said what I wanted to say for now :)
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:56
there, that took 15 mins to write. I'm going to step back a bit
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:56
I'm sorry if I came across too strongly there. These are the things I personally struggle with most. I like to think that I am doing pretty well for myself, but communication and emotions remain hard for me. Especially the latter. I don't quickly get emotional, it just bottles up.

And I don't like to attribute those struggles to a neurotypical society. Especially the communication and communication when emotional is something I personally want to learn to control better. The implication that those expectations should change because they are things I inherently struggle with hurts those eff
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:36
but not every expectation is attributable to the evil neurotypicals and their unrealistic expectations of self-sufficiency
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:35
of course it's not their fault they are unable to dress themselves
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:34
right, tell someone that can't dress themselves that it's not their fault society imposed clothes on us
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:31
@brug I don't know. Is being able to care for yourself the same as being forced to conform to a society that is designed for neurotypicals?
JAD
Mar 3, 2020 13:25
Just not knowing what to do and defaulting to gaming all day