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@Shadow chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/305983/…

Also please add this to the duplicate list

Well, if Jon Skeet posted a blantantly wrong answer about C#...

@SensibleAlexander I was going to make the same point but with myself for Python...

:P

1:51 AM

@AaronHall Are you talking about what I was saying earlier?

@SensibleAlexander But it's not really about that - it's about me an expert declaring something incorrect that isn't immediately demonstrably wrong...

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog maybe, what were you saying earlier?

@AaronHall About the confusion over voting for AS people

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog AS?

@AaronHall "Autism Spectrum"

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't see how that would be even tangentially relevant, but I could be wrong.

1:54 AM

@AaronHall You were making comments about my series of messages earlier? I was just asking if you were referring to that? A simple "no" would have sufficed?

@SensibleAlexander and I think that's important because when one is an expert in one area one tends to think one is an expert in others... I think I could cite psych literature on that...

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog to be completely literal about it, you may have discussed something about this subject before, and that specific subject could be relevant. I just don't see how. Probably not. I've just enjoyed a nice refreshing happy-hour style beverage, so perhaps my thinker is slow...

@AaronHall I'm the fastest thing in the world, so you just seem slow

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog fair enough - since you're so fast, google me a reference backing up my psych lit assertion.

@AaronHall That's outside my world.

@AaronHall let me google that for you...

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog TY

2:04 AM

@AaronHall I'm already here

Here's a relevant paper, but it's not on the nose: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608003000189

> experts recalled more investment-related words and, paradoxically, also made more false recalls in that domain.

By the way, this question was tagged status-completed, but wasn't actually fixed: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/305944/…

You'd prefer status-bydesign?

@Catija status-declined, actually

The request isn't declined, though... the point of the answer is to say that it's unsupported... which seems like by design.

2:18 AM

@Catija It is possible to fix the notices, but they're choosing not to.

He literally fixed the notices by removing the unnecessary notices. :)

@Catija There are other questions with the wrong notices

@Catija Please see the update at the bottom

2:46 AM

A former moderator went out of his way to break a massive number of questions on Server Fault. That search is just the tip of the iceberg. One of these days, if I'm feeling particularly masochistic, I'll fix those too. — Shog9 ♦ 4 mins ago

user202362

4:12 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog next meta question: should we elect mods with masochistic tendency?

we should, so they will be happy clearing SO Close Vote Review Queue in 1 day :)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that quote from shog ... wow ... :0

@SensibleAlexander regarding your comment from last night, I've worked at a hedge fund before where the kitchen staff, e.g. in charge of catered food, birthday cakes, were also in charge of booking flights, arranging meetings for investors and bankers. So yes, from my experience, I've seen low-ranked people in a relatively flat organization have a lot of access to information - it's not so absurd of an idea ...

Why does someone arranging meetings or booking travel in any way equate to giving random staff access to the PII of millions of people around the world? That's basic information security. Need to know, least privilege. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege

@D.Hutchinson I'd say that's an exceptional case because that's not how it should be in general. Maybe... if you stated that in the first place, then we might think twice about it.

Also ^ what Catija stated.

I thought SE laid off their cook as part of the layoffs last year...

4:23 AM

Chef... and pastry chef. Yes. Apparently they are amazing at what they do. Sad they had to go. :(

I followed them on Instagram. Always looked amazingly delicious.

@Catija By the way, your bio lists you as being from Austin...are you situated near UT by any chance?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I work at UT.

Ah, got it from your bio.

Yeah, I'm at the Pickle campus. Are you in Austin?

@Catija Yes, I'm a student there, from San Diego.

4:31 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what are you studying?

@Catija CS

Well, it was winter break when I began participating here again...I'm preparing to get settled in to the new semester.

Are you staying over the summer? They have a really great student program at ARL during the summer. They like people with CS backgrounds.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog didn't you start back Wednesday after the ice storm?

@Catija Yes. What I meant was, I'm preparing to get fully settled in. Last week was just intro, syllabus, etc.

Yeah. And I'm sure missing the first day didn't help much.

Settled in to working

It's a bit more difficult because two days before flying to Austin from San Diego, I had just returned from a trip to India

4:34 AM

Family there?

@Catija Yes.

Out of curiosity, what sort of research do you do at Pickle?

@Catija I don't know yet

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I'm support staff. The team I work with develop sonar systems. Other teams study the ionosphere and others work with the GPS system.

arlut.utexas.edu

Just a very curious question: how did you start working there after your degree in RTF?

My husband works there, too and the schedule is more stable and comes with benefits. Film industry is hard.

hmm ... I won't talk about my own experiences further ... but I'll give another example instead: sort of recently, an enormous hedge fund where my friend works conducted a year-long sting operation, catching the CFO and a couple others in fireable offenses. Their emails had been closely read and followed by (I'm pretty sure) some people lowest on the totem pole who report to the CEO.

The internal memo, after the incident, was something that went like this: "if your wife's cooking chicken tonight, chances are that I know about it."

4:41 AM

Working as a contractor for $150/day and having to cover your own insurance and full tax load... not fun.

so, I wondered what kind of access the lowest on the totem pole at SE have ...

my roommate just filmed for some tv show Blue Bloods or whatever ...

(I don't watch TV ... I don't have a TV ... )

$150 sounds about right ..

free food on the set, though ...

:(

I worked in casting... we didn't work on set. Also, SAG extras in commercials got over $300/day... so, no, it's not "right".

I see

lemme ask him again later tonight

user202362

@D.Hutchinson They probably read your emails if you are working for a hedge fund. I used to work for a derivatives trading company and I suspect my private emails were read