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Journeyman Geek

1:34 AM

@djsmiley2kTMW this is mostly 1

contagiousness is ... not actually very bad

Part of the issue is, well, panic.

Mithical

5:57 AM

There's a girl playing "Titanium" on loop with an angry look on her face in the back of this bus. I get the feeling someone's in trouble.

Rob

6:25 AM

If she switches to Sarah's Sweet Surrender that's your stop.

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical I'm fond of the within temptation cover of that.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

7:04 AM

@Shadow If you could please close meta.stackexchange.com/questions/321160/… as a duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250081/…? I used my close vote to test out the behavior on this question and to answer stating that it had been implemented, but then I realized that it was the SOUP user script

The author of SOUP doesn't implement any fixes into the script unless there is already an existing meta post asking for a general fix - the latter is the original post that resulted in a fix being added into that script.

Gimby

8:31 AM

@JourneymanGeek Wow, Within Temptation. Long time since I heard that name.

I see I was completely unaware of three new albums.

Gimby

9:53 AM

This is the type of question that really baffles me: stackoverflow.com/questions/60447874/…

takes 5 seconds to try it out and it took ~50 minutes to have someone say yes or no :/

Magisch

now you know why I rarely ask questions on SO

I type my problem into google in 2-3 different formulations and 99% of the time there's a Q/A addressing exactly what I want. Even if not and I have to go keyword chaining, I'm still at the solution in under 20 minutes most of the time

When you then spend the extra 2-5 minutes understanding the solution before applying it, nobody will be any the wiser that you're just doing a mildly advanced form of google-fu whenever something's hard :D

Gimby

Yes but what I'm describing is a situation where you don't need Google to know. You just need to not be afraid that when you do an experiment your computer is going to go up in flames.

Magisch

eh, if you're working with a company setup environment, trying it out might not yield the default behavior

and if you're thrown into the deep end on an existing project, nor have you the knowledge to find it out.

Gimby

Yes it will. It may fail because the network may block traffic, but you'll have your answer nonetheless.

Now I'm left with a moral choice to make. Do I not vote or do I upvote that question. Because I have to reason towards the programmer of today... the next person who refuses to do a simple short experiment and googles it might find that question and get their answer.

Magisch

10:10 AM

maybe you tried it out and it yielded the default behavior, but you'Re unsure if that's the default or a config change your environment has

and you're following a guide or other answer that says sticking the default behavior is important. I can imagine scenarios in which it would be plausible to have this question, just not to ask it.

Gimby

10:24 AM

Absolutely not relevant for Maven. But if we generalise it towards all tools of any level of complexity... sure. For other tools a question like this can be necessary.

Magisch

fair enough

Gimby

Thank you for being my rubber duck though, I needed a little mental gymnastics to not react with my gut to it ;)

Rob

12:01 PM

@Gimby Sometimes a mistake can have consequences, even in the Shell:

Gimby

12:21 PM

For sure, before you know it production data is going into an acceptance environment :)

Luuklag

12:56 PM

Hi all

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