Stack Overheards

Quotes from the Stack Overflow company chat, often devoid of context. Managed by @caro_guindon, previously by @balpha & @bethadevine. Not at all official.

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"My parents still think I work for the New York Stock Exchange, and I don’t have the heart to tell them."

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"We're on hold until bureaucracy does it's thing"

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"We should not be meat proxies here."

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"Got a bee in my face shield, both of us agreed that was a mistake and I fished him out"

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"I swear AI is like Dobby the house elf. Always wants to please you, smacks itself when it screws up, and gets into mischief when it thinks you're not looking."

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"Surely you remember a time in your youth when a single image had to load incrementally, row by row from the top and OS updates were spread out over multiple actual CD discs."

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1. I think you scheduled it Monday this week (4 days ago), not next week
2. You mean you're not willing to time travel for work??

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"I've been training a LoRa adapter on top of Gemma3-1B based on Jev architecture. You cannot believe how noisy an M4 Max can get"

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1. Considering how often this comes up, i wonder if having a button that doesnt really do anything would help. Just for the interim
2. Like elevator close buttons

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1. Did you ever think about having to do responsive designs for the new iphone fold?
2. I'm suddenly am very happy to not be designing for iOS anymore. Excited to see if they launch a foldable apple watch to pair with it.

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1."Based on the look of the elevator I'm worried about what type of doctor you're going to"
2. [image of the Hotel Tower of Terror]

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1. 2 SOC 2 Furious
2. 2 SOC TYPE 3 more controls
1. Next up, SOC 3: Model Drift
3. But it's all about family in the end

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1. I rode a zamboni for my 10th birthday and it was the best birthday ever.
2. the most canadian sentence ever written.

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"That's more of a bad run-on sentence than a list."

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"I need an IT buddy to get this cooking, and they've all turned into pumpkins at this point in the day"

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"So basically just ideals instead of policies and process"

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"67% of statistical numbers are supposedly made-up"

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1. survived sleeping at the new house with just a single instance of "kiddo waking you up while standing ominously next to the bed"
2. when the sleep paralysis demon is your kid

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1. "This is confusing. What does "stripe for AI" mean? Isn't stripe a payment processing product?"
2. "wasn't allbirds a shoe company"

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1. "I don't think we'll ever fully know what a node is"
2. "it's just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"

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"I would be surprised if I'm not surprised"