always pick the first option for those you're unsure off. Your probability to get some right is 25%, no?

(assuming there are 4 choices)

@Mithrandir technically failing isn't a bad thing

or more precisely, there's no such thing as failing

@rene Yep.

@JourneymanGeek well if I want to get a chance at a position I won't suffer in

@Mithrandir Its the military

there's probably no such thing

I assume you can train your capability a bit.

*position that's difficult to get and I feel I'd be best suited to

Not sure how quick or much effort that needs

@rene Not really. No time for that. I'll just have to stumble through it.

@Mithrandir practice in Den

With my old brain probably longer

...it's in 19 hours, not much time now :P

@Mithrandir record is 900 words per day, by Frank

Think he played 5-6 hours net time.

So you can do it! :D

Sure, but WAG isn't in Hebrew ;)

ohh

whoops

Response from the instructor: Cool, we never knew these words could be associated ...

@Mithrandir So take its code, find website with Hebrew words, clone the code, run a bot and you're all good. :P

Pfff

oh, first learn Python.

I'd be better off spending my time reading the dictionary

;)

@Mithrandir I did just that as a kid.

Yes. I know.

hides

I read phone books too. (the enormous דפי זהב, not sure they still exist? @Mith)

You managed only words with A and B?

I got to F.

:P

lol

@Shree Reported, more than once.

Problem is... I do not have visual memory or whatever it's called. I didn't memorize anything, just did it out of boredom and to enhance my reading skills.

@ShaWiz I once tried to order the entries in the phonebook on number ...

lol... and?

I memorize through movement(!?)

@MetaAndrewT. good AI

@ShaWiz well, didn't find the number next higher or lower to that of my parents number so I gave up ...

@ShaWiz I've read a couple English ones, never the Hebrew-English ones

@rene how old were you?? lol

I was 9-10 when reading those things. (I think? Maybe bit younger)

Strangely, The Simpsons (in Spanish) has the answer:

@ShaWiz I think I was the same age, about 9 or 10 when my parents got a phone connection. I do recall I was fascinated by it.

hehe

The phone number changed since then?

yeah, due to the renumber scheme of the PTT, not much

Here too.

they had to make room for emergency number 112 and the 06, 0800 and 0900 range

and make most regular numbers a length of 10 digits

This reminds me of a bit of comedy... about there being only like 5 numbers in the whole town, but one number being 'secret'? ... can't remember the comedian :/

@rene yeah here it's only 7 digits, and the area code.

(which is 2 digits)

Cellular phone number used to be 6 digits only... they added another digit few years ago.

@Tinkeringbell funny

:P

@ShaWiz It was! But I can't remember who did the sketch and google isn't helping :/

@Tinkeringbell finkers?

@rene I think so yes but Google says not :P

Don't believe Google

:P

We need @Bart for the comedy identification questions ....

@rene Zondag met Lubach

Was it in English?

It sounds familiar

No, it was definitely Dutch.

Oh. Well, everything has an English knockoff or vice versa.

Like Aladdin.

Wait.

OMG... how come Tim missed that one???

So many downvotes could be prevented.....

:P

@Marshmallow good guess :)

@Marshmallow Zonda who?

@ShaWiz Ooh nice, free NAA flag at the bottom :)

@ShaWiz Yeah up until the second word it looks like a Japanese car manufacturer

Imagining @rene with big anime eyes

Oh the novelty wore off alright.

Why is it still featured? Just informing people, or is there new noticeable activity on the post?

@Tinkeringbell my pleasure ;)

@ShaWiz I always avoid looking for my keys by religiously placing them in the same spot whenever I come home

@Marshmallow actually zonda in Hebrew is feeding tube..... :P

first thing of any time I come home is placing my keys in that spot. Hasn't failed me yet in 4 1/2 years

@ShaWiz . . . still going for the Japanese theory.

Why do things always mean weird things in Hebrew.

@Magisch problem is sometimes that spot is taken, at least in my case.

Or is it the bias of the speaker, I wonder.

Wife put her stuff there, or kids.

@Marshmallow because Hebrew is awesome. :D

@ShaWiz find one nobody else uses

You had that chuckle or shuckel or whatever thing that did not mean something repulsive.

@Magisch no such thing, even inside drawers. lol

Many things, not a big house.

Oh you have an immigrant problem

I even have a marking on my desk where the keys always go

@Marshmallow shekel? It's our currency.

@Magisch won't work for me. Kids will erase it.

@ShaWiz What, no, it was some kind of cake.

Maybe you trade in cakes.

@Marshmallow hmm.... context? Hint?

cake is עוגה which is "ugga"

Mith burned baked some for Christmas and went crazy all over the chat with the pictures

It was before the biscuits.

oh

It doesn't seem to take much skill. I already know how to fry eggs.

Also maybe a simple omelette.

Also how to make Chinese noodles.

Essentially, boil some water and long pasta.

ohhhhh

You mean shakshuka?

Maybe

That sounds like a missile name.

Or a Russian prizefighter

Also, this:

Mekupelet.

@Marshmallow missile made of eggs and tomatoes? Yeah, that will do lots of damage. :D

It's best eaten with challah.

yummy

spending all day bending firewall rules because the owners want to be excluded from their own security policies they forced on us

👖💺🎮👁️⛩️👖 = The Emoji Bar (מקופלת‎).

@Tinkeringbell Yes, that's Finkers

@Bart Then why oh why is Google being so mean that I can't find the sketch!

Also.. Hi :)

@Rob huh? Lost me on that one. lol

In the UK they are called "Flake", the North American version looks similar but is nowhere near as good:

@Tinkeringbell Hi!

@Rob ohhh... but what's to this and "emoji bar"?

refreshing when a sales person calls and then hangs up when you tell them you don't have any interest

@Magisch Don't they have to, nowadays? I can even tell them I'm on a 'don't call me register' and that I want to know who I'm speaking to on behalf of which company so I can file a proper complaint :P

So far though, the register works like a charm.

On the Emoji keyboard for my phone the characters on the package look similar to those emojis.

@Magisch well what you expect them to do? You're wasting their time. ;)

Maybe they were from a bank, also offering you 0% Interest on a Savings account; but since you already had one ...

@Tinkeringbell dunno. I don't recall which show it is, but I'm certain it's his.

Well, then I will find it after work hours ;)

Dislike telemarketing calls, check out this Channel:

@ShaWiz Usually they try to sell me stuff regardless, even when I've told them I'm not the purchasing department

This specific time it was a company trying to sell external data protection officer services, and they asked for the person who handles GDPR stuff, and became completly uninterested when I told them I'm the company DPO

@Tinkeringbell youtube.com/watch?v=WVdbkSvTn0M 1m48

@Tinkeringbell This is for business sales calls in the company

privately, I never get sales calls because almost nobody has my number and I'm pretty sure I landed on some kind of blacklist for sending too many article 13, 14 and 17 requests. I haven't even recieved email spam lately

Thats a good blacklist to be

It's actually scary how cascading the information selling is these days.

A coworker of mine used to get 200+ spam emails per day selling various stuff. We picked out 4 companies in the emails that were in the EU and sent article 14 requests, and then picked the common 2 sources from these requests and sent article 17 requests, the email spam stopped pretty much immediately

tinfoil hat wearing magisch says there's a blacklist somewhere of people who ask too many questions or are too informed

.... yanno, that could totally be a service...

I've been doing it for people I know and coworkers. Some way to make use of the ridiculously expensive training they sent me on :p

The equivalent of sending a large impolite gentleman with metal fist jewelry and a very analog percussive persuasion device to have a not very quiet word. Just more polite.

it's a variant of "I know you have my data and I know I have these rights, I request you send me all your data on me and the justification you have for processing it, and I deny having given any consent"

@Magisch oh... business spam is different, yeah.

most of the time you get a polite and deferential email with a copy of your data and its source back, and then you go to the source (usually an aggregate marketing type company) and send an article 17 deletion request and deny you ever gave consent and disclaim them from using your data going forward

@Magisch Which they don't really have

which is why its scary

I mean, you do under GDPR. I can do all sorts of inconvenient but fun things to affiliate marketers if I care to, if they are in the EU and usually even if not

@Bart classic ...

remind me to point you at someone if I ever move to the EU ;)

I'm not aware of small ish marketing firms getting fined huge amounts for gdpr violations, but a lot of firms are definitely scared shitless

and honestly, as a DPO, if someone sends me an email like that I'll just get rid of them as a data subject asap to avoid dealing with them. There's a lot of things a data subject customer can do that consume time and annoy

@Magisch so you say GDPR actually works?

@ShaWiz for customers it seems like, although companies like facebook and google and big affiliate marketing companies continue to try and circumvent it

It succeeded if nothing else in making it not worth the time of marketers to try & keep you around when you want to be rid of them

obvious spam seed

Almost full!

200 shekels, 1 cup. :D

(rough estimation!)

hmm... maybe contest asking to guess how many shekels (once it's full) and the one most close to real answer win it all? :P

I wonder, can I send actual money in a package via mail?

lol

@ShaWiz I think that is per country/postal service different.

insurance may be high ..

@ShaWiz Look, I can just bus over and pick it up... :P

@ShaWiz whenever I think shekels I think a sort of large spoon that you use to portion grain

is that the origin of the currency name?

reminds me of shackles...

Still reminds me of cake.

I want cake.

Even a dishonest one.

But the cake is a l... truth!

I want an el truth cake!

Oh the irony: New Contributor suggests to not allow new users to reject edits. Rolls back all edits to their own feature request.

Cool... I was observing a mod on a work! "load 9 more comments" removed 9 comments instead XD

and......... suspended...

Another observation: The message "This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. You may discuss this on meta if you have concerns." looks a bit strange on MSE when it links to .... MSE!

Does the answer editing grace-period end as soon as another answer is added?

yes, and when a comment is posted

that's answer-to-answer, yes? not just for questions?

@canon oh, I didn't read that corner case

I don't think that works answer to answer

Mainly, I suspect that a new answerer just copy/pasted competing answers into their own as they realized their own answer was deficient. But it was within the five minutes...

@AnneDaunted it has only recently changed: meta.stackexchange.com/q/329091/158100

@canon oh, that is .... grrrr ... maybe flag for a mod?

at least to make them aware? If that is a repeat of behavior they might step in.

If it is the first, at least they have something on record

I don't even know if the edit history is preserved. Some of the meta posts make it seem like it's all overwritten within the grace-period. Some say the first iteration is kept, regardless.

Even so, the question is a duplicate. So, I'm not going to waste a mod's time investigating.

I think only SE devs can see if there was something before the 1st revision posted

ah

even more of a waste of time

they're busy building in monetization features :P

Maybe there is a difference between creationdate and lasteditdate with only 1 revision might reveal it was edited

let me check that in SEDE

Hmm, that theory doesn't seem to hold

womp

@AnneDaunted meta is its own meta. By design. ;)