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user315433

12:15 AM

Interpersonal Skills chat room is named "The Awkward Silence". :-)

user315433

12:58 AM

"Average # of Developers on Site Right Now" is an odd thing to write on a page that's likely to be updated once a year or so.

user315433

I am making a website for a school project and I am having problems with different resolutions positioning elements of the site. Answers fit the question...

user315433

1:58 AM

We believe all traffic on the web should be treated equally. Help us support net neutrality on July 12: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/0...

Tweeted by StackOverflow on June 30, 2017 at 7:10 PM

user315433

An interesting link there... it actually shows all blog posts, including Juan's

user315433

Compare stackoverflow.blog and stackoverflow.blog/2017/0

user202362

4:52 AM

Cute possum standing

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user202362

this cute little thing came to steal chicken feed last night

Disney

7:21 AM

Smokin'...

rene

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@Disney and gone ...

rene

7:45 AM

@Telkitty Why is the house on pile dwellings/stilts?

user202362

because I prefer piers over concrete slab

user202362

it's higher from ground, it's both cleaner and higher

humn

8:20 AM

@Telkitty , very cute! (And now I've learned that possums are different from opossums, who are slightly less cute around here. Does every marsupial have almost the same name?)

user202362

Emm ... no. Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials ... and wombats, they have very different names IMO

humn

IYO? funny!

(Opossums are the only marsupials around here, Pacific North America, and they're almost all spelled and called the same as possums.)

user202362

I think more than half of the native mammals in Australia are marsupials

user202362

12:54 PM

My life involves fixing holes. I live a ~~holy~~ holely life

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@Telkitty vidio.com/watch/68707-the-beatles-fixing-a-hole-lyrics

Disney

1:10 PM

Fire in the hole!

rene

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user202362

'dress with holes' and 'holely dress' returned totally different results

Shog9

@Walt if memory serves, we don't age them if they have replies

user202362

1:27 PM

I am amazed that you are up so early, I would have thought drinks would be after you on a Friday night

user202362

1:37 PM

I have been comparing neighbourhood possum with other possums on the internet, according to the comparative size, it has been doing well with all the chicken feed it stole.

user315433

3:14 PM

Reported long ago but still needs flags: opendata.stackexchange.com/a/11449

user315433

3:28 PM

holey

Adjective: holey (comparative holier, superlative holiest)

having, or being full of, holes
Fred loved holey Dutch cheese.

user315433

Is that second item another meaning or what...

user315433

Ah "holier than thou" means "having more holes than you". I used to wonder about that phrase.

Disney

test

Noun: test (plural tests)

A challenge, trial.
Synonyms: challenge, trial
Antonyms: breeze, cakewalk
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

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The indentation fails the one-box

Tyto alba

3:57 PM

Hello mods here.

I'm directed from the comments of this [meta post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/70201/338088)

to Tavern on the Meta

I'd like to continue the discussion of this chatroom.

Could you unfreeze it?

user315433

It's not clear with whom you plan to continue that discussion, given that 185 days have passed.

user315433

The room is attached to Biology site, so the most logical way to proceed would be to ping one of Biology mods in the biosphere.

rene

Or custom flag one of your own posts in case that goes unnoticed

user315433

Any Stack Exchange mod can unfreeze the room, regardless of the site affiliation -- but generally, mods from other sites may be wary about doing that for the lack of context.

rene

Yeah and given that room creation is free and cheap why not just create a new room and link to the old one

Tyto alba

4:13 PM

@Walt @rene

> but generally, mods from other sites may be wary about doing that for the lack of context.

I see.

Okay

user315433

4:28 PM

Interpersonal Skills so far: 84 questions, 243 answers. Everyone's an expert.

M.A.R.

@Walt so you're an expert in deciding expertise?

user315433

cv-pls which is the best online competitions site..?

M.A.R.

I'm maybe an expert in deciding expertise expertise

user315433

Not sure if it's posted by a spammer tandem...

M.A.R.

Very suspicious, yeah

Disney

4:39 PM

flagged both of them anyway...

user315433

I mod-flagged the answer.

user315433

> In other news, German officially has a new letter: The uppercase version of ß. twitter.com/adamtwar/status/881066289644670976 … -- Ben Dumke-v. d. Ehe at 9:25 AM - 1 Jul 2017

user315433

Ouch. People really should have decided what letters they want before Unicode standardization.

user315433

Currently "ß".toUpperCase() returns "SS"

user315433

Capital ẞ

Capital sharp s (ẞ; German: Versal-Eszett) is the majuscule (uppercase) form of the eszett (also called sharp s) ligature in German orthography (ß). German eszett is, in origin, a ligature of two minuscule (lowercase) letters, long s and tailed z, and as such has no traditional majuscule form. Nevertheless, typefaces used for printing German language texts during the early 20th century have often included capital eszett glyphs. There were repeated calls to include capital eszett in official German orthography, particularly in the early 20th century, and again during the 1950s and 1960s in East...

user315433

4:47 PM

> The capital ẞ did not form part of official German orthography until June 2017.

Disney

ᥬ3

user315433

Works for me.

user315433

> Bitcoin Q&A Bitcoin.stackexchange.com is about to graduate. We need more contributors. Please help spread the word: twitter.com/murchandamus/status/877662723059859456 … -- Murch at 9:13 AM - 1 Jul 2017

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@Walt Well, it's a bit silly idea though.

user315433

Why? When it's in a company name, the company may want the name to be in all-caps somewhere and in normal case elsewhere. I can see why they would want the name to appear in the same way apart from the font.

πάντα ῥεῖ

4:55 PM

@Walt Well, at bayern2 tey brought up the example of a person named "Meißner" where the name in their passport would appear as "MEISSNER".

There's still a lot of sites which don't recognize the ü in my forename and replace that with ue.

user315433

Russian orthography (at least post-1918) had uppercase versions of all letters, including Ь/ь and Ъ/ъ even though these can never appear at the beginning of a word.

user315433

Traditions aside, it just makes sense to have constant string length under case conversion... think of the poor programmers.

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@Walt Yeah, that's at least a good reasoning ;-)

user315433

5:35 PM

Turns out nsf.gov is offline for the weekend as National Science Foundation is moving its data center from Arlington to Alexandria. Science is moving a little further from the D.C. center...

user315433

(A cost saving move, planned for several years.)

M.A.R.

6:14 PM

@Walt I read that Not Safe For Government

Huh, for some reason I can't access the Net neutrality blog post

user315433

7:02 PM

There is no way to search for protected questions using site interface, right?

user315433

Ah yes, a FR from 2010: Can we have a "isprotected" search operator?

user315433