Just try and catch me! ;)

/me drops an acme instahole (tm) on @Spevacus

@Wasabi wrong question...

The right question is "Is it made of cake, or is it real?"

ARE YOU?

@Ollie where does ctrl+q work? Chrome Windows10, tested negative

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@Wasabi at least you got a good grade for the task of measuring the decibels of stink bug? ;)

Sad to see people can't understand that comments are not meant, were never meant, for discussions, and end up suspended over that, when comments are deleted. It's really not that hard to take discussions to chat. :/

Maybe put huge blinking banner COMMENTS ARE NOT MEANT FOR DISCUSSION when there are over 5 comments, to anyone trying to add a new comment?

@QueenieGoldstein it's when you're inside the text editor

@JohnDvorak beep beep

plz-delete button click @rene @Art @Sonic @Glorfindel

Huh!!!!

Secret finally revealed.

That's how many lost souls end up on Meta. Google!

@ShadowWizardWearingMask That already exists, when there are four back-and-forth comment pairs from two users.

@SonictheMaskedWerehog only two users. Many times discussions involve much more.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Blame Google! Handout the Pitchforks Tweets

How about adding "indisciplined badge" for those who abuse discipline badge xD

It's a simple spell though

@ShadowWizardWearingMask The answer text editor then...it doesnt work in comments or Chat

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Bring back the Marquee: <marquee>COMMENTS ARE NOT MEANT FOR DISCUSSION</marquee>

There are sites where discussion comments are put to good use, and the Mod Notification doesn't kick in until 40 comments. People sometimes even have slightly heated and not too adversarial debates. But after sometimes a few hours of bickering, or useful discussion, everyone comes back and deletes their comments; and edits the newcomer's question or answer, and upvotes it.

I totally support marquee

@mag Put in an application for yanno :D

So... you can ask someone else that question :D

@rene Google. It's always Google.

;)

@QueenieGoldstein sure, totally different markdown, no keyboard shortcuts anyway.

Those apply only to posts the sites, not chat or comments indeed.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Hear Hear :D

@Rob yes! :D

@Rob there are also sites where each question gets auto upvote, and there are no downvotes. And everyone are happy, except the people who are looking for actual answers.

Letting free comment discussions in place like SE will almost always end in tears and lots of people suspended over nothing.

@Rob 20

also

WHERE IS THIS PLACE?

@ShadowWizardWearingMask tbf, its rarely over 'nothing"

So cleaning comments and cutting discussions before they're heated is for the good of the users.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask and to some extent - it actually involves making a decision on what to keep and what to delete... and well... uh

@JourneymanGeek nothing that really justify suspension, e.g. people can argue forever about a single letter change somewhere.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask "And for just 3.99 we will send you a self adhesive sticker sheet of Ses and Blanks!"

@JourneymanGeek yeah that's the hard part.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask which most folks don't realise

I've almost ever used the "purge comments" option here

and you might notice in some cases, multiple rounds of comment deletion as folks go through it

@JourneymanGeek maybe others mods do though. I do see cases where all comments are gone.

hm

I don't mind it, and try to explain to others they shouldn't mind it too, but it does happen.

I wonder...

though I need to use the purge all comments option to test that...

Formatting sandbox?

@ShadowWizardWearingMask it does. Or they might read through it all and decide it needs to all go

Lots of useless comments there... ;)

or purge and undelete

@JourneymanGeek might be easier when there are more bad comments than good comments, yeah.

then... what if the good comments make no sense?

@JourneymanGeek poof, and frustrated people.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask people are already frustrated

if you leave the comments there or not

So maybe add a comment by the mod explaining in as friendly way as possible way what happened?

people don't listen a lot of the time :)

sometimes they do

after you delete the comments. I've suggested people post answers so many times, and will continue to do so

Well if I write good comments, don't know how the system works, and suddenly see all those comments gone, comment explaining what happened will help.

oh

but those people never complain

its people who are familiar with the system, but are unhappy with the specific way it happens

Who knows, maybe they boil silently inside. ;)

maybe an are you sure nag-a-tron if someone comments on a post with more than 20 comments, deleted or not... :D

(do I feel like burning rep today? ;D )

Which SE deals with Logic Gates/ Microprocessors/ CISC/ RISC/ VLSI etc.?

hmmm

that's kinda broad

Electronics SE?

or say, electronics engineering SE?

the first and last... maybe

microprocessors maaaybe

computer architectures, I am doubtful

Depends. If you want to make logic gates out of vacuum tubes, electronics might be fine - check their rules. If you're trying to design an ISA that works well with vacuum tubes - maaybe retrocomputing??? Might be 2b/pob everywhere

wait

vacuum tubes?

Fine. Relays.

I'd wanna make a career in microprocessor R and D

so I looked up on the web and found a list of relevant things to master/know

they included VLSI, logics etc.

That's kind of a saturated field, isn't it?

Quantum computing has just started

cant saturate so soon

next, 5G is here

deploying by late 2021

ooh, quantum computers. I do assume you know they use an entirely different paradigm than classical ones?

yes, I know that, i have completed a minor course as well

but there's no stream which would take specifically to QC

It will be a while before you'll be able to have your own hardware on your desk. But you can already borrow a few qubits from IBM.

I know, I have some computing time left as well

ooh, it seems they do have a tutorial on their own site: ibm.com/quantum-computing

I still have no idea how to build new useful quantum circuits

@JohnDvorak ladies on a plugboard?

?

I think relays are older tech than vacuum tubes :D

Ah, you mean human operators as a computing environment. I was wondering what they had to do with quantum computing.

@QueenieGoldstein we have a specific QC site :D

Visited there...I had to un-entangle qubits LOL

@JohnDvorak algassert.com/quirk#circuit

It's just a simulator^...Better than the IBM one

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Which builds up pressure.

@JourneymanGeek Maybe this was what I was thinking of: meta.stackexchange.com/a/139777/282094 and meta.stackexchange.com/a/279095/282094 - Photo.SE lets the comments get long, if they're somewhat productive. Lots of friendly arguments, it's the way of: the passionate about their craft types.

@JohnDvorak The human interface to computers hasn't advanced much since the plugboard, derived from a Telephone Plugboard.

Ooh, that is beautiful

@Rob exactly

I find it somewhat...amazing(?) that people keep posting spam even when their first seven attempts were destroyed in 17 seconds...

@πάνταῥεῖ How was Happy Hour?

@Ollie bold of you to assume they are humans ... or AI.

Oh yeah...

sdc coffee John

@Ollie brews a cup of Mocha for @John

@JourneymanGeek They look like this: 🕳️

more or less

It's the closest emoji.

should I be concerned

34 omgg LOL

@QueenieGoldstein Currently the deployment of 5G has been extremely slow, except for two areas:

I got 3-4 years to graduate

I'll be there during the roll out

(most probable)

@QueenieGoldstein I used to regularly come online to 20+, but it's become very rare over the past year for it to exceed... 10 or so.

that looks fun, mine rose to 12 today

It will come eventually, unless it's replaced by 6G - much like people figured PCIe 4.0 would come but it was super slow; then when it did finally arrive it was (will be) replaced by PCIe 5.0, and PCIe 6.0 is under construction.

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@Mithical you are popular! ;)

@Mithical Reputation? 10 is...not much.

Inbox notifications.

Oh.

34 is a lot. I got 11 just now.

I've... kinda stopped paying attention to the rep notifications, mostly.

I would too if I had 25+K.

Right now, I still need/want /tools.

I mean, my next rep target is 200k network wide, but that's still ~80k off ;P

Once you get past... 50k or so it starts to lose the appeal of chasing it.

Writing the questions is more fun than getting the rep for them.

@Mithical And answers.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask No, they've just followed a lot of posts.

@Ollie Nope.

;)

None of those notifications were followed posts. Most of them were comments on my Lavender answer.

oh, that's not unexpected then

@Mithical thought they're grouped? e.g. if you got 20 comments, you should get single notification until you open it. No?

Other way around

I'll show you 20 notifications in the red box but only one comment will be highlighted when you actually open the dropdown

@Mithical it's a controversial topic 😁

A question:

Why isn't there a "Edit profile" button below the "personal info" section in Area 51 Discussions?

That was from another site.

There isn't one on Discussions.

Ahhh...

Isn't it because Discussions is a child-site Meta? So it would copy the profile info from the parent site?

don't look for sense in the Area 51 site workings

I never do that.

The thing is, though, I'd kind of like to change my profile pic on Area 51, and I can't.

Or at least I don't think so.

Oh wait

It goes to here does stuff, blah blah blah.

Could we add a normal "Change picture/edit profile" page to Discussions, or would it be too much, not worth it?

@Ollie 🏆🏆, 🐔🍽️

@Rob Don't monkey around.

🏆🏆, 🐒🍽️➕🍳

But really, could we make an exception, and make a normal editing page for Discussions?

A51 is weird and they don't make fixes that only benefit that one site when it's non-critical. But, you can file a Bug Report on their meta.

Can I, though? It's supposed to be the same for all child-site Metas. It's not a bug, I'm just really not happy with the way I have to upload a new profile pic.

Wouldn't it be more of an FR?

I guess it's kinda FR, because here it takes you to the Gravitar site; instead of the usual list of choices.

Yes.

Would that be a better fit for Meta or A51 Meta? (Discussions).

But, that suckage they will not fix.

It's A51 only.

Hmm...

Ask, and you shall not receive.

☕&🚬

@Ollie Duplicate: meta.stackexchange.com/q/260078/282094 and meta.stackexchange.com/q/263486/282094 - also see the Linked and Related.