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Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.
  • Interesting, I've always had the opposite problem - whatever I say they cut way too much off the top. Perhaps we should go together and order each other's cuts?

    I'm not sure I have anything helpful to say other than to suggest keep trying different places until you find one that listens?

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  • There's a small number of surprisingly aggressive and unhelpful responses here. People are different and the world, especially the workplace, is made by extroverts and that can be difficult for those of us that are more introverted.

    In an ideal world your colleagues would be mindful of that but unfortunately that's often not the case (and of course extroverts often don't engage in a whole lot of self reflection).

    You're going to have to put up with a bit of annoying small talk. Try to find something that's a compromise you can live with. After that I'd say being polite but direct is best... nice chatting but I need to get back to work. No further elaboration is required.

    You can also try telling some people that you're not a big chatter or something and that you like to just get on with work. See how that goes, people are often more understanding than you would expect.

    (I should say I live in the UK and work in a technical industry so YMMV).

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  • This is good advice. Headphones can also work on another level as a signal that you're getting stuff done and don't want to be disturbed. Not all my colleagues get that but perhaps 9/10 do.

  • Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?
  • I'll give you a short answer as you've got a lot of detailed ones already: to a native British English speaker "six oh five a m" sounds completely normal. There are other ways to say it that sound equally normal.

  • Recommend me a supermarket that has a good delivery service?
  • +1 for Morrisons. They don't often sub and when they do it's usually not completely mad. We found it was significantly better than the others. I think it's because they use Ocado's tech rather than whatever bodge the other supermarkets have come up with.

    Ocado was also good when we tried it ages ago but of course quite pricey (and the last thing I need is easier access to Percy Pigs).

  • At which scale (real world day to day life situation) when each extra digit of pi become necessary?
  • Not a direct answer to the question but one thing not noted in other answers is in computing you often work at a higher precision than you need for your final answer as the errors tend to increase each time you do a mathematical operation.

    In the world of reasonably powerful hardware (laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones etc.) we'd typically work with 64 bit floating point numbers which gives pi to 15 digits (I think, not at a real computer now so can't check). because it's simple to do so even though we don't need the full precision.

  • For people who switched to winter time last night, should we end this?
  • I envy you. My microwave, oven, car and others all apparently have to have a clock but aren't capable of switching automatically.

    I'm not sure why, in the 21st century, we have clocks that can tell the wrong time.

  • Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?
  • I've heard it suggested that they didn't expect to get as far as they did into Israel and they barely expected to get past the border wall. If that's the case they may not have planned what to do when they did and so there may be no grand strategy behind some or all of it.

    I guess we'll never know.

  • How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software?
  • I'm not a big important decision maker but if I always came across your website when searching for answers about software X and your GitHub when looking for code for software X I would go to my manager and say "why don't we just pay this person to sort it out, they seem to know their stuff" and there's a fair chance we'd do it.

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  • I used to feel the same about settings pages but I've noticed I'm so used to the auto save settings way I now get annoyed at the opposite - when I change some settings, exit the page and then discover I've lost the changes because I was meant to click save.

    I guess either way can work fine it just needs to be properly designed.

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