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11:04 AM

@Tinkeringbell "please aggressively <do X>" sounds like the perfect way to ask for stuff in emails. We can probably expand it to signatures, too "Aggressive regards,"

Journeyman Geek

"Most Vicious Regards"

VLAZ

For a more affectionate signature, "Yours aggressively,"

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Did you mean that as two hands clutching the head?

Because I just realised this is also an interpretation. I just thought it's an upside down \o/

As in still a man flailing the hands but upside down.

Journeyman Geek

I'm sure someone clutching his head, and someone hanging upside down are both having a bad day

VLAZ

The upside down one might be loving it.

I personally wouldn't but I know some others would.

terdon

@VLAZ no, no, no, it is someone walking with crutches with their head bowed udner the strain!

VLAZ

11:13 AM

@terdon Yeah, sounds like a tough time.

So far, 2.5 of the 3 explanations are bad.

Journeyman Geek

So they are having a bad day, or bungee jumping?

terdon

@JourneymanGeek They were having a good day. Then they went bungee jumping. Now they are having a bad day.

Journeyman Geek

Depends :D

VLAZ

I'd have a bad day if I was bungee jumping. Well, probably. I might also be dead at the time, as I'm not sure I'd do it alive, so I guess it depends on whether I was killed the same day my corpse was bungee jumped or the previous day.

So, I might have had a bad day and then bungee jumped the next day.

Journeyman Geek

Depending on how dead you were someone might have a bad day cause you bungee jumped

terdon

11:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek This is all under the assumption that those are indeed crutches.

Journeyman Geek

Well if you bungee jumped while needing crutches....

Someone absolutely positively would be having a very bad day

VLAZ

"He...doesn't seem alive. Are you sure your friend is up for it?" "Oh totally. This is just how he shows excitement - being completely listless and stopping his heart."

Journeyman Geek

Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Ted Kotcheff and written by Robert Klane. The film stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss, Bernie, is dead. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive, they discover that Bernie had ordered their deaths to cover up his embezzlement. It grossed $30 million on a $15 million budget. The film's success inspired a sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II (1993). == Plot == Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman) are two low...

VLAZ

That...sounds pretty good. I've actually never heard of this movie.

Journeyman Geek

I've never watched it. Just heard about it cause of some random thread of internet things

VLAZ

11:23 AM

I recently watched Hellraiser. Like, 7 parts of it. It was one of the older horror franchises I had basically no experience with. I had seen some of Friday the 13th and some of Nightmare on Elm Street for example. It was always fascinating how these long running series change to accommodate so many entries. But having no idea of Hellraiser I didn't know how it changed.

It was horror alright.

Each entry seemed to change the rules. And there was no real consistency.

Some article I found said that the actor who played Pinhead (who was in all of them) was surely committed to getting all his kids through college through this franchise alone.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek That's sounds like a very unlikely movie. Generally, dead things smell. Especially in climates where the average high for September is 23 degrees C.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

11:43 AM

@VLAZ no, together with the one above it forms a person stretching up.

VLAZ

OK, so...a middling day, I suppose.

Luuklag

The parrot is also having a day off work?

Tinkeringbell

2 hours ago, by Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek And yes, I kinda am. Lots of compiling and long running things today

And meetings. I forgot meetings.

Luuklag

hence the deletion in under a minute

Tinkeringbell

Yep

Luuklag

11:52 AM

22 seconds, must be a record ;)

Tinkeringbell

Nah, I've managed 6-8 seconds at times ;)

SPArcheon

@Luuklag It needs to be... about 20% faster.

Feeds

1:57 PM

Stack Overflow badges explained

Medi Madelen Gwosdz on April 12, 2021

Badges have been around since the beginning of Stack Overflow. They are our way of recognizing our contributors for engaging with the community in meaningful ways. They are a little bit of motivational fun that helped us create the largest place for programming knowledge with over 20M+ questions. But what badges do we have, and…

Journeyman Geek

2:07 PM

._.

On one hand

ITS A POST ABOUT THE NETWORK!

On the other

WHO IS THIS AIMED AT?

on the gripping hand

> Jon Chan, Engineering Manager, Public Platform admits the badge he would most like to earn next is “Fanatic,” which is awarded for coming to the site for 100 days in a row. “I really only use Stack Overflow for work but come to it when I’m working on personal projects over the weekend. If I’m coming to the site that frequently, probably means I’m making progress!”

:(

Luuklag

shouldn't all staff log in at least once a day to see if they are pinged somewhere

Journeyman Geek

Apparently lots of folks don't use SE chat

Luuklag

well I don't talk specifically about chat

but also about comments on their (official) posts

or answers on their official Q's

Journeyman Geek

no idea

I'd guess/hope where they're not directly here, stuff gets passed down the line as needed

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek 'Snot. It only uses SO numbers.

> To this day we have awarded over 66 million badges to more than 8.6 million users. The most common badge is the “popular question,” which has been given out over five million times, and is awarded to users who ask a question that is viewed 1000 times. The rarest general badge is the Illuminator, someone who not only wrote answers but also improved the question with edits a whopping 500 times. This club has a short list of 139 members.

Those 139 members are SO only.

Journeyman Geek

2:14 PM

@Tinkeringbell I have half a mood to complain then

Tinkeringbell

I would bet the numbers for 'popular question' are SO only too.

@JourneymanGeek I want @rene to do a SEDE first, to find the total number of badges awarded across all sites :D

Also:

> Moderators have a set of their own badges to recognize the contributions they make to the community. For example, the Taxonomist badge is given for creating a tag that gets used on at least 50 questions.

Journeyman Geek

tbh that would be good since it would kinda deal with the arguement that its too hard to pull that up across the network

Tinkeringbell

That's definitely wrong, the taxonomist badge isn't moderator only.

Journeyman Geek

sigh

I think they're interpreting it... wrongly

Tinkeringbell

It's a cute blog post. Let's just stick with that XD

Journeyman Geek

2:16 PM

> In many ways, the badges, next to the reputation points, are a way to put quantify appreciation from the community. David Haney, Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, names the Great Answer badge as his favorite. “It makes me happy to know that I provided answers that were helpful to many other developers struggling with similar problems. I love knowing I’ve made a positive impact.”

I thought Haney left

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek this reads horrible

Journeyman Geek

ah I am in error, he's apparently still around

Tinkeringbell

It is titled 'Stack Overflow badges explained' after all, not just 'Badges explained' ;)

Luuklag

Haney ♦, Jacksonville, FL, United States

7.2k 34 52

looks like he's here

@JourneymanGeek but please do read the first sentence of your quote, that's not a propper sentence right?

Journeyman Geek

My memory isn't infallible

Tinkeringbell

2:18 PM

@Luuklag I'm halfway sure that sentence wasn't finished and then merged with another sentence... it's what you get for not using git in your head too :P

Journeyman Geek

> are a way to put quantify appreciation

un yeah, so... meta or blog comments?

Tinkeringbell

'the badges, next to the reputation points' can only be read with an Indian accent too....

Journeyman Geek

You have no idea how that sounds in a thick enough one

Tinkeringbell

I might actually.

Our helpdesk is in India. And it has people that don't understand it when you say onehundredtwentythreethousandfourhundredandfiftysix when asked about your employee number XD

Journeyman Geek

._.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

2:22 PM

@M.A.R is here!

M.A.R.

T-rex sounds

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. - NAME RANK AND ID NUMBER!

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Sgt. Gunner

M.A.R.

YESSIR SEARGENT M.A.Rovsky FROM SECTOR 9.3 ID 00281947829948

user400654

🚽

Tinkeringbell

2:24 PM

Oh hey. The toilet is back too!

Hi, how are you?

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@user400654 thanks, didn't clean toilets for long time, long overdue.

The dirt has high interest rate, more than a bank.

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell It often appears when I'm dispersing wisdom for some reason

If I wasn't such a goodhearted fellow I might have assumed it to be directed at me

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. of course not, you're not the toilet guy.

rene

@Tinkeringbell here you go: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1396491

Meta Andrew T.

badges badges badges badges ... MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

Journeyman Geek

2:28 PM

hm

Meta has the second highest number of badges? Really?

Catija

Lots of views and voting.

It's not too surprising to me.

Meta Andrew T.

rene

I'm not 100% sure I got right. Counting and summing combined might have weird effects.

M.A.R.

All those [peer-pressure] badges . . .

Meta Andrew T.

8700~ users visiting MSE each day...

Catija

2:31 PM

MSE is 10, though. It's MSO that's #2?

Meta Andrew T.

oh drats

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

~10000 Take Me Out of Here badges...

Journeyman Geek

Oh

That vaguely makes more sense to me

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

(given for posting comment containing the key words conbo "downvote", "why", and "bye")

M.A.R.

Yeah meta.SE bloodshed is high quality, Game of Thrones style blood-shed

Meta Andrew T.

2:32 PM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard you forgot "comment"

M.A.R.

Meta.SO is often just average but there's a LOT of it

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. I re-watch GoT again... lol

Just finished Season 2 last night.

M.A.R.

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Somehow that'd make the best comment ever. "Downvote?! Why?!1! bye"

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

Baby dragons had their first kill. So cute.

:P

@MetaAndrewT. in the comment? That would break the code.

M.A.R.

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard IKR, it's just so gooood. I keep wanting to reread the books but they take much longer than the show to finish so I'm stuck wanting

Journeyman Geek

2:34 PM

@M.A.R. If.... they ever finish

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. you nailed it

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek oh well they finished in spirit

I'm almost certain he's not going to.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. better than me, I got stuck in the middle of the second (?) book, and never resumed reading it.

Journeyman Geek

I mean, its possible the last death in ASOIAF would be...

the author's...

M.A.R.

Once I'm fully certain, when he'd be associating himself with more side projects, I'd start imagining what could be

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

2:36 PM

@JourneymanGeek Agony Story Of Invalid Asia Fighters?

Journeyman Geek

A song of Ice and Fire

the 'proper' name for the book series

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

oh

M.A.R.

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard That's Mortal Kombat

Which is also being remade

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. but it's not a book... or is it?

M.A.R.

Well I hope not

Journeyman Geek

2:38 PM

Its a video game series

M.A.R.

I have a hankering that I want my next book to be Jurassic Park

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

Or theater show, like Potter.

M.A.R.

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Potter? I hardly know 'er!

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

2:52 PM

@M.A.R. him

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - West End Show Trailer

►

Tinkeringbell

@rene Nice, that's almost off by a factor of 10 then :P

Rob

3:12 PM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard So, you remember this picture !

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Rob of course. Rare moment of something I can't forget.

Rob

Did you see the video?

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

3:29 PM

@Rob which?

SPArcheon

Ollie

@Tinkeringbell Spam account: meta.stackexchange.com/users/978968/brisa

Rob

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard That's on third.

Tinkeringbell

3:47 PM

@Ollie gone

Ollie

@Tinkeringbell Thx.

Rob

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A: What is meant by the maxim, "Context is King"?

I think it just derives from the belief, common both among Biblical interpreters and linguists, that all meaning is contextual. Some dictionaries make it seem like words just have meanings in isolation from the rest of the language. Better dictionaries show how words relate to each other, how the...

SPArcheon

4:56 PM

.........

Tinkeringbell

Lovely graph XD

SPArcheon

and now you know that the Québec government didn't do an Covid vaccine shot in 1970.

in case you were wondering

John Dvorak

Doses are delivered through needles. Graph is an image of a needle. Coincidence?

With a loose droplet, even - in the form of a hamburger menu

Tinkeringbell

@SPArcheon I just saw a very enlightening one on Twitter: twitter.com/LokoCartoons/status/1381614251014565895?s=20. Translation: The tip of the cotton swab is dippetd in ethylene oxide, very carcinogenic, and through the swab you're already being vaccinated. Watch out, this is true!!!!

Note the very helpful passive agressive correction of a misspelled d into a t XD

So, if anyone wants their vaccine fast, go get tested!