So this morning, I woke up, walked to the station... only to feel my vest pocket and miss the little cardholder with my debit card, public transport card and office access card...
So, I emptied my entire backpack, no cards...
Walked back home, watched the ground the entire time, hoping it fell out and I would find it... nothing.
Came home, sent an e-mail that I'd be working from home.
Put a temporary block on the debit card, and went to have breakfast.
At around 8:30-ish, mom wakes up, comes down, sees me and goes 'what are you doing here'
(not even a good morning!)
Told her that I'd lost the card-holder
'What does it look like?'... I describe the thing, and she goes 'Oh, I think I know where it is'
What happened: Last Saturday, they had a neighbourhood barbeque, and when it got cold in the evening, mom borrowed my vest
During that, the card-holder probably fell out, and a neighbour found it, asked around (but because it was mine and not mom's, she didn't recognize and claim it)
So neighbour took it home
Now the fun part: All three cards have my name on it, one even has my picture.
When I just went to collect it, she went 'Oh, we didn't know it was yours' :/
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog Dumb thing is, she knew there was a transport card and a debit card in there, as mom told me 'Linda found a card-holder with those inside at the bbq last Saturday'
Only thing I can imagine is that is was far enough in the evening that everyone was drunk enough to not look at the names
Still doesn't explain why she didn't do so on Sunday or Monday,
If you find someone's cardholder the first thing you do is look at the name on it
And if it's your neighbor the first thing you do is "huh this is tinkeringbell's, maybe I should go LITERALLY NEXT DOOR to deliver it instead of holding onto it"
I like that day. We have our grandparents come over and it's often very 'gezellig' at the table :)
@Bart I'd love to try cheese fondue, but I guess it'll have to wait until I'm living on my own... my parents apparently aren't fond of it, so I'm not getting any either ;)
Hmmm. My mom puts up little bowls of vinegar in the room, that seems to help.
We always make them in the kitchen
I love the day we make Oliebollen, because it's also a T-shirt day in the middle of winter due to the room temp being set to 26/27 degrees just to get the dough to rise
@Tinkeringbell well, until she doesn't do that in order to fight chemical trails... I suppose it is good (yep, no joke here, there are claims that putting a cup of vinegar on the window should stop the weather/mind controlling effects of the chemical trails up in the sky)
It's a thick batter with yeast, plain or with raisins, which gets deep fried. I like to put in bits of apple, make the batter with beer. And you sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
And yet that's what I am supposed to do right now.
Useless is to add that every attempt to at least have some emulation running in order to be able even the most basic of test has meet failure
Can't really use the physical machine, nor I can use a virtual development environment.
also, I have to listen to people who think they could use the nativescript playground as a serious app development ide (who needs source control, let's try and put a whole app on an online service that was built with the sole purpose of providing a tutorial entry level quick try out environment)
@Bart I even tried installing Android x86 on hyper-v inside an Azure VM just hoping it would at least allow me to do some basic stuff....
didn't know that if you are connecting to an hyper-v host via RDP (which obviously is what I am doing since the host is an azure vm) then the guest VM isn't able to use the mouse because Microsoft decided so.
Stack exchange content moderation doesn't go well with the word "instantaneous" and also doesn't need to. It's fine for things to take an hour or two if nothing is actually burning down on the spot
@Telkitty want to join the "My Microsoft account was accessed by an unrecognized MICROSOFT IP and my account was temporary suspended as a precaution because of this" club?
Saw suspended live id accounts that were accessed by "unknown ip". The ip was an internal microsoft one. Sorry, they lost my friendship and good will long ago.
Chinese police are forcing whole cities to install an Android spyware app Jingwang Weishi. They are stopping people in the street and detaining those who refuse to install it.
Knowing that I may be forced to install it sooner or later, what are my options to prepare against it?
Ideally:
Make ...
Memorizing the Firefox download URL might not be something people just do out of boredom, but it's no insurmountable obstacle for anyone dedicated enough.
We have (had?)
russian-stackoverflow
portuguese-stackoverflow
spanish-stackoverflow (I created it the last week)
japanese-stackoverflow (I created it today)
Are these tags legitimate on MSE?
I think that they are because while the Stack Overflow sister sites have their own meta sites they a...
And of course, any real geek bears with them an emergency stick that contains, at the barest minimum, a Firefox installer, a Ruby runtime environment and a custom-built DSK derivative for their own language.
It's the same country that has a computer system that kicks you out of every restaurant in the country if you've been rude once a year ago, and puts a red flashing rectangle around your face for every cop to see.
> It seems to me that the shorter a tag name the better. I think, it should be "international" (or may be "internationals") because of the same reason we do not use "stack-overflow-site". -- Feedback And Initiatives On International Sites
Tl;Dr
international is a bad tag
Description
This already was mentioned on other answers (from me,from Glorfindel) but it's was requested to me to elaborate.
international is a bad tag for MSE because among other things, it's a meta-tag not because is a tag of MSE but because it's ambiguous.
...
I'm pretty sure I accepted suggested edits that added those tags, in the anticipation that the proposed process is so complex that you have to do some field testing to see if it works
How many close and down votes didn't those transfix bug posts had to endure?
@Catija here we have unilateral tag reversals that go against the process one of the CM's tries to establish wit the help of the international site communities
why would anyone want to block that? And why would you need to wait before it is decided?
Changing things before they're decided means that they'll be edited several times potentially while people are arguing about it. In Nic's post, he says to use "international" but he doesn't say anything about removing *-stackoverflow tags, so removing those tags at all is wrong until there's some idea of what should be done.
There's a chance, with some of those translation issues, that if it's an issue on one site, it's also an issue on all of them, which is possibly why the site-specific tag may be a hindrance but we don't tag based on the answers, we tag based on the question, so if the problem is known on the Russian site and needs to be fixed there, then the tag seems appropriate to me.
We have (had?)
russian-stackoverflow
portuguese-stackoverflow
spanish-stackoverflow (I created it the last week)
japanese-stackoverflow (I created it today)
Are these tags legitimate on MSE?
I think that they are because while the Stack Overflow sister sites have their own meta sites they a...
It looks like the stackexchange tag is a holdover from the pre-split days when this site was called Meta Stack Overflow and also served as the meta site for Stack Overflow (in addition to its current purpose). It was intended to disambiguate questions about the SE network as a whole from question...
I see, are you Don Quixote in shiny armour :) Again, there are over a thousand questions, it's a noble cause but IMO pretty thankless and… alone, impossible to achieve. Thanks for the clarification.
For some reason I can't edit comments. So I bid thee farewell :)
Yep - I've written up a sort of story for it, and planned out a route. Today I went out and practiced everything (except for one thing that I want people to be around for in case I get hurt :P). I'm hoping to get this done, but buying a lot of equipment is... no small matter.
Question for the candidates: How often do you down-vote?
Chinese police are forcing whole cities to install an Android spyware app Jingwang Weishi. They are stopping people in the street and detaining those who refuse to install it.
Knowing that I may be forced to install it sooner or later, what are my options to prepare against it?
Ideally:
Make ...
We have (had?)
russian-stackoverflow
portuguese-stackoverflow
spanish-stackoverflow (I created it the last week)
japanese-stackoverflow (I created it today)
Are these tags legitimate on MSE?
I think that they are because while the Stack Overflow sister sites have their own meta sites they a...
