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user315433

12:03 AM

Robert crossposted on SU, SF, and SciComp.

user315433

I'm always confused by the latter's name/URL combo. Is it Computational Science or Scientific Computing? (Cue people arguing how these are very different things.)

user315433

In any case, Research Computing and Scientific Computing are really the same thing, so

user315433

Or maybe there's a difference between scientists and researchers too?

user315433

The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.

Journeyman Geek

12:45 AM

@6'whitemale you could post "In any case, Research Computing and Scientific Computing are really the same thing" with some reasoning somewhere

user315433

1:07 AM

Would that place me in the intersection of researchers and scientists?

Journeyman Geek

Yes

user202362

we know too little about you to answer that question

user315433

Clearly I should pick a more informative username, like Aaron.

user202362

1:50 AM

not sure to trust someone who claims to be a lecturer/professor but marks students paper himself ... either not teaching at a proper university or not really a professor

Andrew T.

mornung

Andrew T.

2:35 AM

TGIF!

Journeyman Geek

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303607/… cv plz @rene @Bart @ShadowWizard @TravisJ

Andrew T.

I can CV also :(

Journeyman Geek

→ 8 messages moved to Chimney

@AndrewT. I can never remember so I just pinged who @rene did ;p

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Work of Ted Kaczynski by Guest on math.SE

user315433

3:35 AM

Some people are not predisposed to statistics, but rather to making conclusions from tiny non random samples.

Shog9

some people?

user315433

Speaking of murder, Charles Manson is dead.

user202362

old news reporter

Shog9

Damn you, 2017 - must you rob us of all our icons?

waits for canon to generate an attractive proposal for replacing Charlie with text

Journeyman Geek

@Shog9 eh, At least we will have Trump

user202362

3:42 AM

how's trump's wall coming along?

Journeyman Geek

The mexicans refuse to pay for it

Shog9

Already forever immortalized in 140 character text snippets

Andrew T.

Trump's wall (of text)

Journeyman Geek

This amuses me too much

Andrew T.

ooo... bouncy

Journeyman Geek

3:44 AM

Been playing around with analytics (Currently run google analytics and piwik, might go for the later)

@AndrewT. session duration is... Pi

@AndrewT. its a small personal blog that's mostly random project documentation

Andrew T.

cool! what do you blog, if I may know?

Journeyman Geek

journeymangeek.com whatever stuff I am working on and feel worth writing about

I have one piece that's not a hardware review or "this is a neat thing I setup" or "I need to stick this somewhere I can find it"

Andrew T.

yeah, internet kinda sucks :(

but I think you need more terriers on your blog?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I really don't want to turn it into a "slice of life" blog

user202362

non random sample is sort of deterministic ... deterministic because of a cause, a cause like personality

Journeyman Geek

3:52 AM

(hm dogtech! Headscratcher review?)

user202362

I know a great deal about statistics, especially how it's used to fool people

Andrew T.

non-random sample... reminds me of knife-edge challenge with that dummy cache-breaker

user202362

Andrew T.

cute, but what's that?

TheLittleNaruto

Squirrel

bwDraco

4:08 AM

@Shog9 s/140/280/

Feeds

5:04 AM

No horse has yet managed the elusive Quadruple Crownâwinning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, and the Missouri Horse Hole.

user315433

6:37 AM

-2

A: How to make windows into a wall?

not helpful, this hasnt helped me in the slightest nor my family. we need to pay the bills and your making this difficult for me. I hope you understand that this corrupted my finances and im now living in an igloo in iceland next to a creek.

user315433

On the plus side, igloos aren't expected to have windows

user202362

use brick background on your window OS of course

Andrew T.

@Telkitty so nostalgic,

@6'whitemale certainly Friday in Iceland...

user315433

6:44 AM

Yes, Google confirms.

user202362

I just realised ...

user202362

Andrew T.

that explains why Windows were easy to get bricked...

rene

7:00 AM

@JourneymanGeek and now deleted

@JourneymanGeek if we need rulez I'm the one to create them. cv-plz can go without pings as we probably have enough visitors around that can cast close votes. The del votes have a much smaller target audience which is why we ping those that can act on them and indicate with 20K that it is of no interest for others. /cc @AndrewT.

Now let's keep @JourneymanGeek to that rule ... ;)

user315433

@rene You can't just go ahead and make rules like that. We need rules for making rules first.

Andrew T.

Rule 1: You don't talk about creating rules

Andrew T.

8:02 AM

delv-plz chef meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303603/… @rene @JourneymanGeek @TravisJ @Bart @ShadowWizard

oh, today's holiday?

rene

@AndrewT. yeah, it is thanksgiving/ black friday?

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. but not delete, usually we ping only to delete :)

all gone now...

Andrew T.

@rene TGiF? ThanksGiving, it's (Black) Friday

Shadow Wizard

oh except the last

Andrew T.

8:52 AM

cv-delv-plz poured gas meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303615/name-of-a-horror-movie @rene @ShadowWizard

Journeyman Geek

> I can’t rennet the name of this old movie.

It must be a cheesy one then

@AndrewT. threw it the last cv and first delv

Shadow Wizard

9:09 AM

@AndrewT. del vote has been cast!

Journeyman Geek

11:05 AM

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303619/… cv plz

Journeyman Geek

12:00 PM

Derpy

12:15 PM

^ and the devilish plot to brainwash @balpha into including a turkey hat continues.

Andrew T.

multi-hats!?

Journeyman Geek

cv plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303620/…

> I heard after some twerks

too disturbing to onebox i.stack.imgur.com/5FIdB.gif

Derpy

12:37 PM

And this one deserves a break from the usual scold button.

there. This is more appropriate.

Andrew T.

mommy, why you look so scary!?

Derpy

@AndrewT. ask @Journeyman

user202362

@JourneymanGeek nsfw ... because scary

user202362

what if you roast a head crab?

Andrew T.

12:52 PM

@Telkitty I was confused at the beginning, apparently there's ninja edit

but no, you can't ask technical question here

Journeyman Geek

our chatroom dosen't encourage people to do that

Andrew T.

well, what kind of people asking technical questions on a Tavern... either you'll get nonsense reply, or you'll get free beer

Journeyman Geek

or free salty nuts and pricy beer

Derpy

1:20 PM

on an unrelated notice, just had a look at toby twitter. When did he change the icon to the "distorted monitor face" one?

Journeyman Geek

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303624/… cv-plz

Journeyman Geek

2:47 PM

@Catija heh, not that good a week repwise on MSE for me ;p

Derpy

munching a muffin Ye know, humans. Reading the "why was I suspended" posts on meta is always weird.

Journeyman Geek

admittedly I have an excuse.

@Derpy popcorn man POPCORN.

Andrew T.

3:01 PM

that user..? for some reason I wasn't really surprised...

hint: SF&F

Catija

@JourneymanGeek still better than me.

Journeyman Geek

(been sick all week)

Catija

:(

Well, it's been quiet anyway.

Derpy

3:21 PM

@JourneymanGeek too much salt. And then none will be left for the watermelons

Andrew T.

cv-plz dove & squirrel meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303631/…

rene

6:03 PM

→ 14 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

7:52 PM

What if someone needs to talk to a dead person? We have an IPS site but no ESP site.

user315433

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Paranormal

Proposed Q&A site for phenomenon believers in: Metaphysical (Soul&Spirits/Esotericism/Astrology), Qi/Chi, Meditation&Consciousness, Hypnotism, UFO/ETs, Psionics (ESP/RV/NDE/OBE/Telekinesis/Astral/Lucid), Magic (Occult/Exorcism/Witchcraft/Reiki/Crystals/Runes/Rituals) etc

Closed before being launched.

user315433

Closed for inactivity, so...

user315433

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Paranormal

Proposed Q&A site for phenomenon believers in: Metaphysical (Soul&Spirits/Esotericism/Astrology), Qi/Chi, Meditation&Consciousness, Hypnotism, UFO/ETs, Psionics (ESP/RV/NDE/OBE/Telekinesis/Astral/Lucid), Magic (Occult/Exorcism/Witchcraft/Reiki/Crystals/Runes/Rituals) etc

Currently in definition.

user315433

Here we go again.

Aaron Hall

9:35 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

2

rene

10:08 PM

Can someone explain to me how this is no longer reproducible? AFAICT nothing changed.

user315433

> blocked forever for daring to ask such a question stack overflow is so entirely broken stackoverflow.com/questions/47477393/… … -- Ryan at 10:56 AM - 24 Nov 2017

user315433

I thought this was typical "I was blocked, boo", but it's coming from a mod.

user315433

@rene I still see it, voted to reopen.

rene

Okay, thx

user315433

I suspect that page is partly hand-rolled.

user315433

10:16 PM

I once complained about election results not having a link to OPAvote, which Shog "solved" by editing in a link to meta post for that particular election: math.stackexchange.com/election

rene

yeah, I imagine @Shog9 editing the election pages with some of his home brewed liquors in one hand, causing all kind of small mishaps happening on those pages.

user315433

@SmokeDetector The answer to that question is always NO

rene

I've seen a similar spam post this morning

Journeyman Geek

11:21 PM

@6'whitemale you use a Ouija board and talk to the dead site. Duh.

user202362

@rene I can imagine him home brew alcohol, but he never mentioned home brewing anything

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