@Catija Since you're staff, can you recalculate my MSE reputation? After being unsuspended, I haven't been given reputation for posts I know were upvoted.
I think that's OK. For us it's like a scar. A memory of a time we got burned so that we can avoid making that again. It may fade over time but it'll likely still be there, a pale ghost that catches our eye and gives us pause.
It can. For some people it's less of a surface wound like a burn and more like a deep slash or even an amputation. A feeling of deep need to protect yourself from future similar harm or an ache that never goes away and haunts you, impacting how you interact with others.
I nearly lost the tip of one of my pinky fingers when I was 8 or 9... a door closed on it and it was holding on by only a tiny piece of skin. They sewed it on in the ER and, while my nail is a bit funky, it's hard to really see there's anything wrong at a glance. But there are times I recoil from closing doors - it's just an involuntary action. I will over react when my kids are near doors that are closing.
30 years hasn't really relaxed me. It's why I couldn't own a dog - two bites to the face as a kid, one requiring stitches and one to the arm... I can't be comfortable around them. I like them, I'll pet them but the second they act threateningly, I recoil and look for a way away from them.
Yeah, I think the fear started too soon... The first one was when I was in that same 8-9 age range. 11 stitches, I think, just below my eye. I remember the surgeon saying that I was lucky the dog didn't bite higher. All small dogs. :P My mom had a giant schnauzer. She was dopey and floppy and just wanted to chase sheep all the time. She was great.
I'm sure in the dogs' minds, I deserved it... I was never threatening them but I can imagine them feeling that I was in their space. The first one, I made the mistake of playing with their (empty) food dish.
The second, I was just walking through their backyard (with the owner) ... min pin, I think. Just jumped up in the air and bit through my upper lip.
The last, when I was in high school... walking down a street and a (young) blue heeler pup saw me wave and smile (our neighbors had had heelers) and jumped half over the white picket fence to bite my arm.
@ThomasWard I never thought of using compressed air to do that...(and I use that all the time for electronics and dust cleaning). Thanks will try that :D
Yeah, the cease-fire has held (though no one is under the impression that it is anything but a hold on hostilities and that they will restart again in the future), so all quiet on that front.
Yeah, it seams like the ever continuing spiral. I don't think it will ever end before some sort of "permanent" deal is struck between Israel and the Palestines.
I prefer my coffee in espresso-based form. I actually can't make coffee at home, so I haven't had any since the pandemic (unless you count Frappucinos, which...I don't)
It was in fact sarcasm, I don't think bittering agents are good for flavoring coffee ^^;
@JourneymanGeek It's not helped by the prevalence of the "we just need to hit them hard enough and they'll stop" mentality, which is definitely something I've heard floating around here in the IDF.
@JourneymanGeek that last bit would be the only bit. Hitting them only makes them more determined to hit you, in any conflict. This one especially as I get the feeling the palestinians see hitting Israel with missiles as their only option to be heard internationally. As soon as the missiles stop, people no longer look out form them they feel.
@Luuklag well. 1) He's still PM until the change is officially complete, can take up to 12 days according to our laws. 2) The new PM is... not someone I like at all, and got only 7 out of 120 seats on own "senate", i.e. only few people actually voted for him. It's a very rare situation, and I'm afraid he's not ready/good for the role.
Speaking of Android meta questions (great segue, I know), I've noticed the Community bumping feature on Android.SE is especially useless, because it constantly bumps many-years-old questions about phones that probably approximately no one has anymore (especially not in working condition), so no one can possibly check if the answer is correct or not.
@MetaAndrewT. yeah, you're right; was mostly comparing size of dump when saying this. I guess this isn't enough to know if one is more active than the other?
@RyanM yep, I noticed that too
there also less traffic there for "answering" question. It's like, you'll see maybe one or two comment, rarely more than 3 answer on a single question
and when you make a duplicate post, it won't get flagged as such, but someone will comment under your post to help you (at least)
so I think it's just pretty "chill" there, for lack of better wording
@NordTheLoftyWizard "used" is too much honor but I did download occasional an xml file if I needed a large set for some testing. Most stuff I'm interested in is obtainable with SEDE and that has more data.
@Luuklag waiting for the difficult flags to disappear magically
@rene I see :D. I only used it a bit myself, but was mostly wondering if you knew how to get the older version of data dumps (as in, older data dump). (without checking every time it get updated)
re re phone (didn't had time to write and pressed enter too early...): I had a couple ones of those old phone I wanted to flash, and noticed you're on your own as I mentioned, which is kinda sad.
I heard you can make them easier to flash with stuff like adb, but you'd need to dump their firmware/rom/etc which you need special kit to do so
or I guess one can always wait and hope for someone to have already done that for your specific brand and version of phone...
Oh, interesting. 2.0 predates my involvement with Android. I've never developed for below...Froyo (2.2), I think, and I've never owned a phone below Gingerbread (2.3).
@RyanM I can assure you, given all the custom phone being made, especially in Asia and such, most companies wouldn't always follow the CDD requirement exactly if at all sometimes
@MetaAndrewT. well, I won't deny I may have liking that align with Anime.SE but...I don't see myself asking or answering question there for some reason (not that I don't want to, but it feels like I wouldn't know what to say you know?)
like I could do it for scifi.SE (actually I already am) but for anything else of that vein, maybe not
@EkadhSingh Provided the edit you make is substantial (not just a tag edit or w/e) then yes. You're editing the post, after all - Just after applying the suggested edit's changes.
@ThomasWard One traditional way of cleaning a coffee grinder is to grind some dry white rice with it. It has a fairly low moisture & oil content, so the ground rice doesn't stick (much) inside the grinder. And the moisture & oil in the coffee grains help to stick it to the rice. Also, you can see how well the process is working from the colour of the ground rice. Follow up with the compressed air, if you like.
@PM2Ring that sounds like an interesting idea; but wouldn't it leave some oil still? even with compressed air? (I mean, I already tried removing oil with compressed air...it's feasible but take a decent amount of time)
In the privacy policy, SE says “The Stack Overflow Enterprise platform is not intended for children. We do not knowingly offer this service to anyone under the age of 16.” However the Terms of Service says “You must be at least 13 years old to access or use the Network or Services”. What does this mean?
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!
It’s easier to just have one policy to enforce than going per country, particularly when the data required to enforce it isn’t allowed to be collected due to it
@ThomasWard Yeah but then you still have to do work in finding out when one goes out of line, put thinking into where the lines are and blegh... :P I'll stick with two SE sites for that, don't need an entire galaxy.
@NordTheLoftyWizard True, but the idea is to clean the grinder regularly, so coffee & oil doesn't get much of an opportunity to build up. Dry coffee isn't too bad, but the coffee powder picks up moisture from the atmosphere, which makes it stickier. And IIRC, it also causes it to expand slightly, so any coffee powder caught in micro-cracks gets wedged there.
@SPArcheon I use Thomas's strategy: I let someone else grind my coffee. ;) I like my coffee in the Turkish / Lebanese style. Put water & sugar in a small pot, put finely ground coffee on top, and bring it to the boil.
Hi @Luuklag @Spevacus @Zoethe I'm curious why that post of mine got so much attention all within just minutes? I didn't think it was a highly active or high-profile or "hot" post by any means. I appreciate @Spevacus pointing out that image descriptions can be helpful for blind people that are relying on audio readings of the posts.... this totally hadn't crossed my mind at the time. I'm curious why so many people caught the edit so quickly though.
Perhaps Spevacus caught it due to Luuklag's post here, but still it was a lot of people in a short amount of time.
In any case, I'm curious why you felt the need to retroactively reject the edit, even if you didn't fully understand what the benefit of descriptions is - was it really worth undoing it?
