@narfcake If I’m up at 5AM, it is extremely likely that it is still yesterday.
If I’m not able to get at least three hours of sleep, I’ll normally just stay up, though doing this for more than about 40 hours is not as easy as it used to be,
I work all different shifts at work. I don’t normally have time during work unless I’m on a break, or working the late shift and there’s no one to help.
I might peruse the forums and come back later to actually comment.
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@Yoda_Daenerys, I was more looking at ways to address the “posts for a minute or two just before and after the hour and then nothing for almost an hour” problem.
I am likely up for another such content, but only if we can do things to make it more of a social event and less of what it devolved into.
@baqui63 That was mostly a symptom of the way it was set up where half hour consisted of static half hour blocks rather than half hour between postings.
@jbartus i still don’t agree with the cause/symptom as you describe it. it wasn’t due to the time blocks, but the length between posts. if you want to achieve posts every 30 minutes, set the time block at 15 minutes using the same rules we made up (as we went along). from the manual check standpoint, it is much easier to check fixed time blocks compared to checking time gaps (requires math), but i imagine coding might be easier to calculate time gaps.
how does one achieve the flexibility and rule bending we developed, meaning changing rules in a script ‘on the fly’ may be required?
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@Yoda_Daenerys if you tell people they only need to post once in a given half hour block that gives them almost an hour of time in which to play and they have fixed points they can set an alarm for to remind them to come back and post again. If you have it be restricted such that it’s dynamic and there are no more than 30 minutes between posts it becomes much harder to step away and depend on coming back as the timestamps will vary widely. Yeah they could still set an alarm and go away but that’d become tedious as time goes on. It might not prevent it in its entirety but it would definitely make it less convenient and more than likely result in people sticking around and chatting due to the uncertainty factor when stepping away.
I think you will find it gets the most activity from 10:50pm central to 12:05am central (people here for the meh item, then another bump as people check woot).
It is pretty rare for them to have anything cheaper than amazon if you have prime… but every once in a while they have a deal or two… but it is pretty rare.
plus you can see what the new shirts are for the day…
I work third shift, so that’s when I do most of my talking.
@vanslaterco i guess that makes the answer to the second question
@Yoda_Daenerys I’m also on Meh at work pretty much all night. Perks of being IT.
5-ish in the morning is definitely NOT my time.
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/too-early
@narfcake i love that graphic
@narfcake If I’m up at 5AM, it is extremely likely that it is still yesterday.
If I’m not able to get at least three hours of sleep, I’ll normally just stay up, though doing this for more than about 40 hours is not as easy as it used to be,
I get to sleep late on many weekends and holidays. I don’t pass up the opportunity
I work all different shifts at work. I don’t normally have time during work unless I’m on a break, or working the late shift and there’s no one to help.
I might peruse the forums and come back later to actually comment.
It’s a holiday. I am busy doing important stuff like wasting time on YouTube.
As a starter, may I recommend vids of the sublime Simone Biles, from Spring, TX, world champion gymnast.
Weekends are notoriously slower, holiday weekends are the quietest.
/giphy too slow
And to think… some people wanted us to do the cage match this weekend…
@jbartus some people = @jabrtus
wasn’t @baqui63 throwing in ideas for dates/improvements too?
@carl669 is heading home to the motherland
what’s new with @compunaut, @narfcake
said in your best daenerys/cow accent…
@Yoda_Daenerys I was most certainly not advocating July 4th weekend. O.o
@jbartus hmmm, i’ll have to check the
sanskrittranscripts, right after i get done withhilarioushilary’s emails…@Yoda_Daenerys just click Delete. It’s probably full of gross exaggerations, misrepresentations of facts, and outright fabrications anyhow.
We are truly headed into an election with no good candidates for the two main parties this time around.
@Yoda_Daenerys i’ve learned to say mediocre in chinese. hopefully it’ll come in handy.
平庸 (Píngyōng)
@Yoda_Daenerys, I was more looking at ways to address the “posts for a minute or two just before and after the hour and then nothing for almost an hour” problem.
I am likely up for another such content, but only if we can do things to make it more of a social event and less of what it devolved into.
@baqui63 i’ll join if someone puts it together and i am available
@baqui63 That was mostly a symptom of the way it was set up where half hour consisted of static half hour blocks rather than half hour between postings.
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@jbartus Agreed.
As I recall, we also decided we need technology (eg. a script to parse the forum) in order to solve that problem without causing a lot of manual work.
@baqui63 I’m not sure we decided necessarily but we certainly agreed it would make things easier.
@jbartus Yeah… that’s what I meant.
@jbartus i still don’t agree with the cause/symptom as you describe it. it wasn’t due to the time blocks, but the length between posts. if you want to achieve posts every 30 minutes, set the time block at 15 minutes using the same rules we made up (as we went along). from the manual check standpoint, it is much easier to check fixed time blocks compared to checking time gaps (requires math), but i imagine coding might be easier to calculate time gaps.
how does one achieve the flexibility and rule bending we developed, meaning changing rules in a script ‘on the fly’ may be required?
@Yoda_Daenerys if you tell people they only need to post once in a given half hour block that gives them almost an hour of time in which to play and they have fixed points they can set an alarm for to remind them to come back and post again. If you have it be restricted such that it’s dynamic and there are no more than 30 minutes between posts it becomes much harder to step away and depend on coming back as the timestamps will vary widely. Yeah they could still set an alarm and go away but that’d become tedious as time goes on. It might not prevent it in its entirety but it would definitely make it less convenient and more than likely result in people sticking around and chatting due to the uncertainty factor when stepping away.
I think you will find it gets the most activity from 10:50pm central to 12:05am central (people here for the meh item, then another bump as people check woot).
@thismyusername i’ve not checked woot in ages, do they sell out frequently?
does each of their multitude of sites refresh daily?
should i care?
@Yoda_Daenerys
sell out?
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It is pretty rare for them to have anything cheaper than amazon if you have prime… but every once in a while they have a deal or two… but it is pretty rare.
plus you can see what the new shirts are for the day…
@thismyusername i was hoping that shirt emoji was a link - not so though
@Yoda_Daenerys
I tend to wake up abou 230am and look around. If I post is related to if any fun threads.