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10:08 AM
@Derpy I think I might try ASMR :P
@ShadowWizard Not flexible enough for yoga. I'm a parrot!
 
@Tinkeringbell Yeah!! That is also good!
(sorry, ASMR maniac here...)
 
I read about it in the news last Monday, I still have to try it. I'll look up something on youtube now :)
 
Oh wait, there was a vid in the news article.
 
10:22 AM
@Tinkeringbell argh... not that acronym...
 
Autonomous sensory meridian response? Why not?
 
@ShadowWizard search it on youtube, you will understand. It spawned a lot of very bad content.
 
well, maybe because sometime it's misleading? it has "sound fetish" as a synonym in Japan
 
Precisely that. And obviously, youtube content is mostly of the second type.
Which wouldn't bother me, if Youtube first page wasn't even worse than our HNQ list
"Trending video"... yeah, "trending".
 
@Derpy and tweeting at them dosen't help ;p
 
10:29 AM
@Derpy all I see are videos with women.... whispering? I didn't really watch any yet, just saw titles and thumbnails. Why is this "very bad content"?
There is no nudity, nothing uncouth as far as I can see. Unless I miss something, as usual. :/
 
@ShadowWizard sum that with the definition Somewhat gave before and you may get it.
 
@ShadowWizard I think ASMR should be about a lot more than just whispering, so it's just 'bad content' :P
That's the impression I got from the news article anyways
I must say the vid linked in the news article didn't really do anything for me personally, it was just whispering...
I think I might look up the ASMR sleep sounds on spotify tonight
Apparently besides whispering, it may also be other soft sounds, and I know do like some of the ones mentioned in the article ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell umm... maybe because you're a woman? Looks like it's meant for men who, well, like to hear female voice. No? Which now finally makes me see why @Derpy is correct. heh.
 
ASMR is actually the phenomenon when you hear something and you feel it
 
@Somewhat And it seems to be related to those areas of the brain that also are active when daydreaming
 
10:34 AM
@Somewhat You can't feel something you hear, it's just technically and physically impossible. :)
 
So people who aren't prone to daydreaming are less likely to like ASMR
 
but on the other hand......... Japan being as Japan...... there's also the dark side of that, which is considered as "voice drama"
 
@ShadowWizard turns up the bass and volume you were saying?
 
@Tinkeringbell that just cause everything to shake/vibrate, yeah.
 
combining that with... [uncouth] imagination, and you get Japan's user-created content
so, yeah... pure ASMR is actually SFW, but be very careful when browsing on YouTUbe recommendation~
 
10:37 AM
@Somewhat trust me, the Japanese aren't the only ones.
 
Most ASMR isn't Japanese.
 
@Somewhat doesn't YouTube remove uncouth contents?
Pretty sure people like @Derpy flag those, and with enough flags it's removed. Which is totally fine, I don't judge. :)
 
@ShadowWizard surprisingly, not really? Maybe uncouth video, but uncouth sound? no...
 
@ShadowWizard the ways of youtube are weird. So, no, it doesn't always happen.
 
They're barely able to remove uncouth videos as it is...
 
10:39 AM
@Somewhat if the sound was made explicitly to... cause uncouth effects... well, it can be flagged just like any other uncouth content.
 
@Derpy actually, you're right, but I'm mostly on CJK side~
 
I won't flag such things of course, but can understand those who might.
 
@ShadowWizard I don't think ASMR is meant to do what you think it's meant to do.
 
@forest I don't browse YT a lot, but when I do, don't see anything uncouth.
 
@ShadowWizard well, that's the problem... because one of the most controversial ASMR is... licking ear.
 
10:41 AM
@forest yeah, at this point think I figured it out. ;)
 
@ShadowWizard youtube isn't even capable to make its internal SEARCH ENGINE work (and guess what, it is even owned by a company that MAKES the most famous search engine on earth). You expect them to have working moderation?
 
heh, good point.
@Somewhat ewwww... well that's just bizarre. lol
 
@ShadowWizard but with good microphone and good earphone, you could really feel it...
 
@Somewhat feel your ear being licked when you just hear others doing it? umm...
 
I don't really get that specific kind of ASMR.
It makes no sense to me.
 
10:43 AM
well, this is the mic they usually use
 
ah! Binaural mic
people do some cool things with those
 
It's a head.
lol
 
@ShadowWizard it simulates what a person would hear
so sounds sound more "real"
 
 
The human brain does a lot of strange processing that enhances our auditory experience based on quite a number of things.
 
10:44 AM
Ever been to those haunted hauses where you put on headphones and hear ghosts walking around you?
 
@Derpy okay :p
 
So even having the shape of an ear for a microphone does a lot.
 
How did we end up discussing ASMR here? Is it @Tinker's fault? ;)
 
@forest and the distance between the mics
 
It's my fault actually, being an ASMR enthusiast :(
 
10:45 AM
yep
 
hehe I see
Let's see what Smokey thinks
!!/blame
 
Fun fact: some deaf people have some basic echolocating abilities, sometimes even enough to locate objects as small as a basketball!
 
@ShadowWizard It's Shog9's fault.
5
 
oh my
 
Clearly @Smokey... is not smarter than the average bear....
 
10:46 AM
@forest this is an advertisement NHK did for the Paralympics games
 
heh
 
seems "anime superpowers" right?
well, guess what...
the real thing is just like that.
Yep, in a way that escapes my compression those players are actually able to play soccer. Even if they don't see.
 
@ShadowWizard Yes, my fault.
 
@ShadowWizard Yes, my fault.
 
Oh wait I just realized I said deaf people can echolocate. I meant blind.
derp
 
10:49 AM
All of us fault!
 
@forest I was wondering about that....
 
11:03 AM
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11:37 AM
@Somewhat let's see
!!/blame᠎ ‌᠎‌⁣‌᠎
 
@Mithrandir It's Somewhat's fault.
 
Heh. My workdays are going real quick today! 'We need to perform this update, if you click 'postpone' you'll be asked again tomorrow'. I've already used 3 out of 5 postpone credits just today :/
 
postpone credits???
 
Attempts, credits, whatever you want to call it?
I can postpone this 5 times, I already used up 3 today
Which is kinda strange for a message that should pop up again tomorrow
 
But what you postpone? Your deadlines?
 
11:48 AM
postpone leaving for home
 
Postpone an update that apparently should be done to my computer
Usually that means restarting it, and that is something I'd rather not do during work
 
Oh, your machine is owned by sysadmins ....
sysadmins and their group policies ...
 
@rene Shh. Don't anger the sysadmins!
 
well, I normally kill the processes that are required for group policies to work ...
 
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11:54 AM
I'm used to angry sysadmins
 
@Tinkeringbell oh lol... had no idea this can be limited. :P
> Update now! Or else sysadmin will arrive with a baseball bat and force you to update!
@rene but without policy... isn't there just Chaos? ;)
 
sure, but normally these shops with sysadmins are geared to office workers, not to the needs of developers.
 
@rene ALL WILL UPDATE! OR PERISH!
 
EVIL U R ;)
 
CHAOS R US
 
12:02 PM
I normally call the support guy to my workstation and then ask them: "can you run this command for me as an admin". After I have done this for the 10th time in a day I normally get the permissions I need ...
 
@rene its more fun for us
 
That sounds a little scary. Easy way to social engineer.
 
We support an application but we don't have the rights we need
so... we need to call another vendor to log in
 
@forest yes, I mastered that pretty well ...
@JourneymanGeek ugh ...
 
@forest It kinda is the way to get people to say 'you know what, HERE! now you can do it yourself' over here.
If you don't, you never get anything done ;)
 
12:06 PM
Or you can just ask them to run ldd on a carefully crafted binary...
And get things done without wasting their time by asking for root. :P
 
@forest root? Pretty sure @rene works in Windows environments. It's either admin, or not admin. ;)
 
Silly Windows users.
 
@rene and then you go and format some production server by mistake.... :P
 
yes ...
 
12:16 PM
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Vbox 0day, only 18 hours old. Fun :D
 
12:33 PM
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12:53 PM
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Again?
(already voted)
 
@ShadowWizard metasmoke is full of it
 
@rene of off topic questions about riemann?? Sorry, I don't follow.
The OP of that appears to be legit user on Math.SE with upvoted answer, not a spammer or troll.
 
@ShadowWizard there were users (socks I suppose) that kept posting the same questions about their "proof" over and over again. That became abussive, suspensions, nuked accounts, etc
 
1:05 PM
Also can't search metasmoke (search link does nothing) so can't really tell...
@rene oh, had no idea. Still, on MSE it's just off topic like all others.
Why is there "search" link and icon on metasmoke if they both don't do anything? Who can tell? :/
looking for meta.metasmoke.com
 
Is anyone here good with teaching propositional logic and logical equations?
 
@ShadowWizard uh, search in MS works for me?
@Magisch I guess normal human is :(
 
@rene so probably it's IE only. :(
(no errors in console of Chrome either, links simply do nothing.)
oh, or maybe it's admin only. Assume you're logged there as admin? @rene
If so, better hide those links for anonymous visitors like me. ;)
 
@ShadowWizard does this work for you: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/… ?
 
Works for me, I'm not signed in at the moment
 
1:11 PM
@rene oh. Yes. So I must manually go to metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/search. Thanks!
 
yw
 
Written by your co-mod! :P
 
I was able to get through the first few quite easily, though the symbols aren't making life easier.
What are you trying to figure out?
 
Our apprentice has a test coming up and the vocational school is useless in providing exercises
and while i'm passable at solving propositional logic problems, I'm not passable at putting them forward
 
1:14 PM
Ah. I don't think I have any exercises ready anywhere, sorry.
Perhaps the co-mod that wrote those slides has ;)
 
I never played as adult so didn't even have chance to look into this side of RPG, but still, wouldn't believe such things can be part of the game. :)
@Mithrandir Edmund M. Clarke is mod on SE??
 
Why too far?
 
@JohnDvorak too far into details I mean, actually. :)
 
@ShadowWizard I roll for protection!
 
@Tinkeringbell but they also need to roll every 30 seconds when... doing it... and if it's 1 or 2, the protection breaks. Then "save roll" to decide if they notice. Etc etc... it never ends... lol
 
1:24 PM
@ShadowWizard Okay. Protection spells then? :P
 
And time to switch topic before we make this room too uncomfortable! :P
 
@Tinkeringbell IIRC, HPMoR did in fact have contraceptive spells
 
Might be too late! cast Change Topic spell
 
HPMoR?
(I've never played an RPG)
Or does pretending to be a parrot count?
 
1:27 PM
Counts!
 
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - a somewhat controversial Harry Potter fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky set in an alternate universe with a super-intelligent Harry
(and which is apparently notable enough to have its own tag! scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…)
the rather serious moral implications of "love potions" existing in the HP universe were also explored :P
(briefly)
anyway, that's my contribution to this room for this lunchtime. I'll get back to work and leave y'all to your D20s and pregnancies.
 
@ShadowWizard Was a joke - it shows up as "emc" in the URL, and one of the IPS mods is Em C.
 
@Mithrandir ohhhhhh lol! Had no way to know. :D
Since we do have professors here (e.g. Normal Human) well, having one as mod is possible. :)
Oh wait, maybe that professor is Norm? He never really revealed his real identity.... ;)
...or not. Doubt someone with a Wikipedia page about him will waste his time on SO/SE chat.
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (born July 27, 1945) is an American retired computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Clarke, along with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, is a recipient of the 2007 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award. == Biography == Clarke received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 1967, an M.A. degree in mathematics from Duke University,...
 
1:37 PM
I mean... non staff. Jeff and Joel have pages...
 
Adds goal [get a wiki page] to list [achievements]
 
I'll settle for relative anonymity ;)
 
1:51 PM
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@JourneymanGeek @ShadowWizard see here about this delete. Following that, care to undelete? Thoughts?
 
@rene it was a great big infodump of something that I don't think anyone but people on math would understand....
 
I agree on that but that might be caused because I jumped the gun, no?
 
@rene it's off topic on MSE, should be posted on math meta, so really can't see any reason to undelete.
 
naw
I saw that independantly
 
user392547
1:57 PM
@JourneymanGeek I thought that it should be closed because it applies only to math. Wouldn't it be a good idea to undelete it and then send the OP to the math meta site (I did leave a comment but the OP didn't respond to that, so I don't know if I was understood)
 
@Chair OP can see his own question after deletion
 
they can see their deleted posts and the comments on it
 
so re-asking there is an option
 
We can show users the door, it's not our role to open it for them.
(door to per-site meta where their question belongs. ;))
 
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2:03 PM
@Chair let me raise a mod flag in case we got it all wrong and let SE staff decide
 
Isn't it better to tweet them? :P
 
@JohnDvorak BOOOOOOOOOO
 
I imagine a small furry dog like ash barking in protest
ʜᴇᴀʀ ᴍʏ ʀᴏᴀʀ! I ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ! ғᴇᴀʀ ᴍʏ ᴡʀᴀᴛʜ!
 
Error: ambiguous parse. More hyphens please.
 
@Magisch Ash can bark pretty loud...
He's... a sub woofer...
 
2:08 PM
@JohnDvorak I don't have an account on twitter.se
 
@JourneymanGeek <backwardsrimshot/>
 
2:14 PM
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Aww! Definitely the cutest in this list!
 
aww
(that's bravo. He's a giant floofy goof)
 
That your dog too?
 
Awesome, we are talking about animals
(Humans are also basically animals)
 
Now you're switching topic!
 
2:17 PM
Tiny humans are often cute.
 
Yes I agree
 
Meh, I can send you some that I would never call cute.
 
Your brothers? ;)
 
I said "often" for a reason. 😉
 
I had a medicine student as a roommate in uni for a while, and there's one skin abomination she showed me that I've never forgotten.
@ShadowWizard Nah, those are cute in their own unique way. They're also definitely not 'tiny'
@Catija Ah. True :)
 
2:19 PM
@Catija He looks a lot like Ben
 
@Tinkeringbell not now, but they were tiny in the past... ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell Is that you on the warpath?
 
@ShadowWizard Ehh.. One was almost 5kg heavy and over 50 cm long when born.
That one was never small :P
 
@Tinkeringbell skin abomination does not prevent the option to be cute... ;)
 
@Magisch I couldn't find anything that looked outright murderous, so I went for skepticism :P
 
2:20 PM
@Magisch yeah. But a lot more hair and much darker. He's got my Italian coloring.
 
Perhaps it could be a death stare too :P
@ShadowWizard 'abomination'.
 
@Tinkeringbell well, parrot can scare a dog...
 
Wes
stackoverflow.com/a/36764248/117421 I was going to flag that as not really answering anything. But is that the right behaviour. Do I down vote and move on?
 
@ShadowWizard That's a cockatiel.
 
lol you and your sharp eyes!
 
2:22 PM
And to my eye, that doggo is trying to play with it.
 
I see it as "dog scared by a bird", whatever exact type that bird is... :D
 
@Wes I think you should down-vote it if you think it's not a good answer
I don't think it deserves a flag
I don't know
 
Maybe it's in Australia? In Australia even invertebrates can hurt you.
 
@Devealte agree. It's just a bad answer. No need to flag. /cc @Wes
 
Wes
2:26 PM
Thank you.
 
@JohnDvorak Nah, looks like the dog really is inviting the bird to play.
 
That's a dingo cosplaying as a dog
 
@Tinkeringbell well that boy is not cute! o_O
 
It's trying to lure the cockatiel into melee range, by feigning a fear response
 
The parrot doesn't even move, so I think the dog was not scared by the parrot
He flinches out of nowhere
Probably trying to scare the parrot
 
2:29 PM
@Wes @Devealte there's two ways to look at it
If you flag, you think a mod needs to look at it
but if you're not sure, someone will flag it eventually
though there
eh, apparently OP found his example useful
though it could use more... teaching moment utilisation
so... its not really NAA
 
There's one upvote, probably very old... not sure by OP.
 
seems plausible
@ShadowWizard the dog is doing a bork.
also, that dog looks like scooby would IRL I think ;p
 
2:47 PM
I wonder how a picture of a Palmtop Tiger ended up in discussing dogs.
I would have understood if you were talking about dragons... but dogs...
 
@Tinkeringbell that's my granma's dog
I might be seeing him in feb, if my leave plans work out
 
@Devealte not sure, there's no sound in a gif, I think the bird simply barked, and thus scaring the dog.
 
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3:06 PM
@JourneymanGeek Nice :)
 
3:41 PM
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"From Rabbit's Perspective", by Mithrandir
 
heh
This is me getting acquainted with my new GoPro :)
 
well, that's honestly the first thing I had in mind seeing that fence and imagining Australia...
 
...definitely not Australia...
I had it on my helmet and had to take it off to take that photo.
 
Great photo though :)
 
3:45 PM
Thanks ^.^
 
@Somewhat agreed
 
@Mithrandir ...am I the only one who noticed the plastic bag over there?
 
4:01 PM
@EKons no, but it's so common that we stop noticing it. Plastic bags are just everywhere. :(
 
actually that's a hint to a bigger puzzle hiding on the photo...
 
This just adds to the authenticity of the picture. ;)
@Somewhat which is?
 
@ShadowWizard I dunno. I don't have much rep on Puzzling.SE :(
 
oh lol
Well, one can ask "what are those white things on the hill", I guess. :D
 
already voted on
 
4:06 PM
Double Kaboom for Glorfindel! ;)
Now the Elitist question is the only one today with score of less than -8. Not bad for MSE. :D
Interesting trivia... the two most voted answers on MSE were posted by the two people who created Stack Overflow. The highest scoring non CW/faq answer was submitted by Joel and has a nice 886 score, while this one by Jeff has the lowest score with -234. Poor Jeff, must envy Joel for that! :P
 
Jeff's is outdated, btw...
you can sorta retract CVs now, but you can't VTC again... same with same-type flags
 
Some will say things were better when Jeff was around.
I say things were much more simple to handle, dunno about better.
 
4:33 PM
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A: Problem understanding covariance contravariance with generics in C#

Eric LippertThe error message is insufficiently informative, and that is my fault. Sorry about that. The problem you are experiencing is a consequence of the fact that covariance only works on reference types. Now, you're probably saying "but IA is a reference type" right now. Yes, it is. But you didn't...

 
4:45 PM
@ShadowWizard then sockpuppet moderation it shall be
 
@SomethingBadHappened ...highly advise against that...
 
4:58 PM
Blah, turns out I don't have any un-merged sockpuppets with the association bonus remaining.
 
5:20 PM
@SomethingBadHappened Solid humblebrag by Eric there.
 
5:35 PM
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5:51 PM
Huh. CW question with non-CW answers. Didn't think this was possible math.stackexchange.com/questions/2988516/…
 
@SomethingBadHappened if you can pull that up then kudos to you! ;)
@AndrasDeak the question was made CW by a mod an hour ago... Turning a question into CW doesn't affect existing answers.
 
I knew the former, not the latter :)
 
 
@rene done
 
thanks, let's 20K now ... /cc @ShadowWizard
 
7:15 PM
anyone an idea what this is: meta.stackexchange.com/q/318017/158100 ?
 
@ShadowWizard No, it does. It may take some time. It didn't in the past, but it does. See the FAQ. (cc @AndrasDeak)
 
@rene Well... stupid questions don't exist...
 
I didn't say stupid ...
 
I'd honestly just close it as a dupe of the FAQ on tags perhaps?
@rene I did
 
@Tinkeringbell clever
and done
 
7:19 PM
Looks good to me
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog good, good, thanks
 

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