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Sonic the Reinstate Monica-hog

that seems an easy hat

12:18 AM

@Mithical Since close votes are counted internally as flags, do those count as flags for that purpose?

Mithical

I rather suspect it's supposed to be comments or answers, not flags.

Rob

12:45 AM

Got a couple of hats already.

I thought they were supposed to show up in chat too.

JJ for Transparency and Monica

1:10 AM

@House-'ReinstateMonica'-man swept under the rug, for your pleasure ;p

Rob

Filed.

rockwalrus-stop harming Monica

2:49 AM

roar

Am I being too nitpicky or are these legitimate concerns?

@DirkBruere, I disagree with this sentiment. While I understand the pedagogical value of not force-feeding the OP the answer, this results in your answer not being useful without its context. Also, "they should not be allowed close to any electronic instrument" reads a bit arrogant and insulting to me. — bwDraco 5 mins ago

Definitely insulting. Also, please keep that capacitor far away from me.

rockwalrus-stop harming Monica

@bwDraco yes

More importantly - some arguements are just not worth having.

Oh, I read that as 0.1F. Still, I just say no to charged capacitors.

rockwalrus-stop harming Monica

meh, the magic smoke does not care about your emotions.

The instructions are there for a reason

😄

2:58 AM

That was annoying

Speaking of instructions or the lack of it...

@bwDraco so...

my dad once plugged my multimeter into the mains

blew out the screen. And shockingly nothing else. No pun intended.

lol

I've also gotten shocked opening up a power supply

proper respect for fire and electricity is essential for working on it.,

Even if you're that crazy unibrow dude.

I've blown the microammeter function on my DMM by connecting it to a high-voltage photoflash capacitor – but everything else works on it.

YOU FAILED TO RESPECT THE AWESOME POWER OF THE MAGIC SMOKE!

@JourneymanGeek Yes to what? Both?

3:01 AM

Yes

The point being, its not really an arguement worth having in context

there's better more pedagogical answers

I felt it was worth trying to steer the user in the right direction (given the user's rep) but had no plans to argue it if the user objected.

Sometimes people are grumpy

user310756

3:28 AM

fwiw. there's a few people in here who followed our foal's life from her birth. She died this week. Suddenly and tragically. @rene And to the others who have followed her. pets.stackexchange.com/questions/26675/… I'll have to pop a pic in here an on the post for her.. if it's ok I can post a video of her in here.

user310756

@Rob hi

user310756

Samuel Liew was at my house when we had Dyani put to sleep - he happened to be visiting for lunch - it was hectic to say the least. He was very patient.

... damn

user310756

ikr

I'm so sorry to hear that

user310756

3:31 AM

user310756

@JourneymanGeek ty. Any animal lover can relate. It doesn't matter what the species. It's like losing a family member.

user310756

one more one box please.

I'd think folks would be fine with it

curious

@Nobody I'm sorry for your loss :(

user310756

@curious thanks. It's appreciated

user310756

3:34 AM

One of the last videos of her youtube.com/…

user310756

and I'm trying to upload a pic of her being goofey and silly.

user310756

she was cute

user310756

i.stack.imgur.com/55j0V.jpg .

user310756

oh wrong pic!

user310756

Stormblessed

6:02 AM

Where’s the knitting now?

On winter bash

is there a compilation meta post with a list of feature requests or bug reports about unsolved privacy issues?

Probably not.

for example this meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74274/… and this meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339456/…

I'm not even sure there's a common tag, which would be a better way to do it

hmm I suppose it would be easier to search for "[privacy-issue] -[status-completed]" or something

6:11 AM

plausibly, assuming things are appropriately tagged

Despite my legendary hatred of tags, that feels like a great use of em :D

rene

@Nobody I'm so sorry.

which is why I kinda thought there might be a curated compilation post because, you know, tags aren't perfect

Magisch

@Nobody :,(

also idk how to feel about people answering with closed source answers (download this exe) when it's possible to post an open-source inspectable code answer, and whether it should be something to strive for and publicly encourage

that's also part of the privacy and general safety concern

6:38 AM

is there a big meta post describing the difference between user interactions on StackOverflow and other, smaller SE sites?

I'd like to read what SO-mains think about it all compared with SE-mains' thoughts

rene

@user1306322 I don't recall one

I feel like a big part of "we're doing good enough" and forgetting the human mentality comes from using SO rather than SE sites and I'd like to confirm or disprove these and other assumptions

and I've already had enough talks in this room, not strictly about this but on topics which are probably heavily influenced by that, so I'd rather read something in a meta post and comments format

if someone has any links to discussions like that, please ping me with them

it could be that a cure for being mentally strained by SO duties is to take a vacation from SO and go use SE sites for a couple months instead

but in a less reviewer/moderator capacity and more simple readership and posting, to avoid the risk of infecting them with SO-oriented approach of moderation

coz I feel like the 2 groups of users don't intersect much in their experience of using both sites and might have trouble understanding each other's mentality and experiences