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 Discussion on question by The Rocket …

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Dagelf
Apr 30, 2023 14:00
The boosters didn't cut off when they should have, so that would seem to indicate some sort of control system failure. Maybe there was more heat or vibration than they anticipated?
 

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Dagelf
May 27, 2022 10:38
At the very least queue reviews should have a link to this chat so it doesn't feel like an authoritarian dictatorship.
Dagelf
May 27, 2022 10:24
Which hell are we trying to avoid here... the one where there are more semi-related answers, or the one where there are no answers and fewer people?
Dagelf
May 27, 2022 10:24
In fairness the title of the question is a poor description of the detail. I see this often - you search the web for your problem, you land on a SE title that describes your problem - even if the OP asked something slightly different but in the same domain - people figure it out and not finding anything close share their answer there, and then they get hell for sharing and how dare they not open a new question or answer the question to the exact detail.
Dagelf
May 27, 2022 10:20
serverfault.com/review/late-answers/521523 This "audit" question doesn't seem fair. Who decided on the review audit questions - and why doesn't "audit fail" come with an explanation or a discussion? Also this seems like a lost opportunity to gain a new community member... I chose "Looks OK", it looks like the person who had their answer deleted spent half a day writing that answer, which is a solution even if only closely related. Sure it's not "American", more "Indian". So what?
 

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Dagelf
May 27, 2022 10:15
serverfault.com/review/late-answers/521523 This "audit" question doesn't seem fair. Who decided on the review audit questions - and why doesn't "audit fail" come with an explanation or a discussion? Also this seems like a lost opportunity to gain a new community member... I chose "Looks OK" and it does look okay, it looks like the person who had their answer deleted spent half a day writing that answer, and it seems to give a solution to the problem (or one closely enough related.)
 

 Discussion on answer by Join JBH on C…

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Dagelf
Nov 5, 2021 03:27
Except in rural agricultural societies... for example in the Transkei in South Africa, the Xhosa people has a custom to work for beer. If you want help to build a hut, or to change your roof, you just brew some beer and people will come to help. Raw materials and food is plentiful... because there are no fridges, the custom is to slaughter a goat or sheep or cow when there's a funeral or a birth... and there are plenty of those. Oh, and the women carry water. You can visit communities like these... seeing life before modern technology is a revelation.
 

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Dagelf
Feb 24, 2021 08:20
@MaxVernon Iancoleman bip39 github
Dagelf
Oct 12, 2020 17:27
So... how is everyone enjoying life in the Truman Show? :-D
 

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Dagelf
Sep 25, 2020 08:03
Yeah I've got to say... I have never once ever seen a locked thread or question, that I agreed that it should be locked... almost always feels like a power trip by a mod. feels like a cut off limb just still dangling there... :-p
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:19
@XKCD OMW. That I need to explainXKCD this...
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:18
@BlackPanther Pretty self explanatory, isn't it: "Unable to perform your specific resize request while busy encrypting" ... Maybe just wait for it to finish its background encryption.... perhaps you just formatted it? Could take a day or so to fill the whole formatted drive with noise, I guess...
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:16
To the room tagline........ Certain things are too precious to back up. Just ask Morpheus.
 

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Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:14
@fredley From every solution sprouts at least 2 more problems. ;-)
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:13
Screw the hierarchy :-D
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:13
Oh there I see the description in the top right... :-D Star control all the way.
Dagelf
Sep 24, 2020 16:12
Hi everyone........... what am I looking at here?
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:06
Whoa, I see I am also in the wrong chat :-D Not my day
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:05
Enkosi kakulu, in the most recent indigenous language spoken at the Oscars
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:04
Just leave it to them, I suppose?... :-D
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:03
I apparently asked a stats question on a math forum... O_o
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:03
Other than reposting, that is...?
Dagelf
May 31, 2019 18:02
Hi All, is there a way to move a post from one exchange to another?
 

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Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:14
@tpg2114 Don't you think that's what the question asks for - a metaphor to help people who have little grasp of physics or mathematics, feel that it makes sense? Ie. a metaphor or analogy?
Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:13
@ChrisWhite Fair point... but can't we get very philosophical about the whole concept of "an uncertainty"? Yes, it's not an instrument problem - it's a fundamental observation about reality.... but we're still the observer and to observe we use perception and thinking tools, so it is not, then, perhaps a "feature" of our way of observation... our way of thinking... and by extension, a complex fundamental measurement problem?
Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:07
ie. The measurement actually takes time. You can of course measure it from outside... infer it... from outside. But that's cheating... and in reality nothing is "outside".
Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:05
What do you think of this explanation (perhaps suitable to programmers): You can't write a program to measure the time it takes to measure something, without altering the actual time it takes to measure it.
Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:03
"Can the uncertainty principle be explained intuitively to a non-scientist"
Dagelf
Jan 14, 2016 08:03
Hi guys... physics.stackexchange.com/questions/229168/… <- cool question
 

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Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:22
You know what really sucks? The fact that we have the technology required to fix our governments and legal systems... but everyone becomes too cynical or demotivated to actually do it by the time they realize that it's necessary...
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:21
You have to go through an "initiation" process to earn reputation points...
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:21
Which is why I like SE's "reputation" policy.
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:21
Yup, exactly.
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:20
Okay... back to work. :-)
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:20
If you were born somewhere else, or in another time, would you be someone else?
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:20
But if you're intelligent enough you can turn most any situation into an opportunity...
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:20
On the surface, if you're born into a rich family, you have a better chance of being better off... or if you're born with enough wits to "escape your situation"... or if you're at the right place at the right time, and you've learnt the right lessons so as to be ready for that "opportunity" presented to you...
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:17
Regardless... interesting universe we live in... specifically the fact that so many things in our lives and worlds are purely position-bound.
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:15
...but what if it, if it's "sentient Google" watching... "sentient Google" will in no time at all reach a point where it wouldn't need to watch, it will just tell them up front that their ad won't work... or what they need to do to make it work, in which case it wouldn't need to watch :-D
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:14
Oh yes, of course. I'm looking forward to the day computer intelligence renders all our security useless. :-p ...Scary on the one hand... on the other, it begs the question: what makes you different from anyone else and why would anyone watch you?... Personally.... I'd have no issues if I could simply "watch back" ie. see exactly who is watching me and making sure they see how much their ad is annoying me...
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:09
@RoryMcCune Lol! ..Why would your always-on hi-def camera need to be connected to anything but your own network?
 

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Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 15:03
:-) What are you guys talking about?
Dagelf
Jun 11, 2013 14:55
Hi All... I just discovered the SE chats... Sooo coool. I've long been saying IRC needs a makeover. Two questions jump to mind:
1) Why isn't SE open source so I can add word clouds and custom filters & bots and use a self-hosted offline version for our office? ... Or is there a better solution?
2) Why am I too lazy to dig for a FAQ... oh it's because I'm human and it's easier to ask than to look... but only if you're lucky :-)
3) Oh yeah... another thing I'd add: Multiple lanes per room... ie. shared "private" topic-based conversations or multiple rooms in one room...