Unserious but true: I can now identify a certificate template at a glance and I have no professional use for that skill whatsoever.
Not a conclusion. A place to stand while looking for one.
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Lounge · Off topic · continued
Follow-up: What other technical communities get right that we do not posts 91–120
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
m.achebe, post #1: What other technical communities get right that we do not I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. A digression I have been saving for the right category. It is not useful and it is not a question. It is the kind of observation that would derail a technical topic and is perfectly at home… Go to post
Community norms: if you want to discuss how the community should work (not moderation decisions, which go in Meta) the Lounge is a place for that casual discussion.
Industry and supply chain: post about manufacturing, pharmaceutical economics, or market dynamics if you have something substantive to contribute.
I am not the right person to answer the follow-up to this.
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Personal stories: if you want to talk about what led you to this compound, your journey, or how the change has affected your life, the Lounge is the place for that.
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Nicolaides, post #11: Adding a data point of agreement rather than a data point. Go to post
That reframing is the whole thing. The facts I already had.
a.ilunga, post #32: Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work. It is worth stating the boring hypothesis before the interesting one. Go to post
Lower-stakes conversation that does not belong in the technical categories. Still civil, still sourced when a claim is made, but the bar for relevance is lower.
Anyone who has looked at this more carefully, please correct the record.
Not a rules-free zone: the guidelines still apply. No contact details, no invitations to take a conversation off the site, no endorsements of other communities. Just a relaxed bar for how directly the topic needs to relate.
I would be interested in a counterexample if anyone has one.
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That is true everywhere. The reference material that gets used is the material that answers a question you have at the moment you have it, and glamour has nothing to do with it.
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k.agyeman, post #79: Politics and public policy: healthcare policy that affects access to these compounds is relevant here. Partisan politics is not. Posted with less confidence than the sentence structure implies. Go to post
Not a technical point, just an observation: the register here holds because people correct themselves in public and nobody scores points off it. That is rarer than the software.
This is where my knowledge stops and I would rather mark the edge than blur it.
Adjacent and interesting: you might post something about nutrition, bioavailability from a food perspective, or the sociology of weight. Adjacent to this community's core but not central.
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cannula_trace, post #8: Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work. Go to post
Newer drugs and mechanisms: when a new drug launches or a new mechanism is discovered, the Lounge is a place to discuss the news and speculate before hard data exists.
coldchain_liu, post #31: Something I have wondered without ever asking: is there a good reason the vocabulary in this field is so inconsistent between suppliers? Half the disagreements here start as terminology. Somebody will have a better source than mine, and I hope they post it. Go to post
Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work.
Following this. I have the same question and no better information than the first post.
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Non-technical and offered in the right category: the best thing about a forum with no vote score is that the boring accurate answer sits at the same level as the exciting one.
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Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors.
I looked this up rather than remembered it, which is the right order.
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j.moreau, post #43: Not a rules-free zone: the guidelines still apply. No contact details, no invitations to take a conversation off the site, no endorsements of other communities. Just a relaxed bar for how directly the topic needs to relate. Go to post
Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not.
That is what I would do. It may not be what is correct.
Analytics first, in my case, and I still find the practice category the harder read. Chromatography has one right answer more often than logistics does.
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o.abrahamsen, post #59: Adjacent and interesting: you might post something about nutrition, bioavailability from a food perspective, or the sociology of weight. Adjacent to this community's core but not central. Go to post
A digression that keeps occurring to me: the most-linked documents here are the dullest ones. Nothing gets cited like the unit-arithmetic page.
The evidence for this is thinner than the way I have phrased it suggests.
c.inglethorpe, post #55: Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors. Go to post
Unserious but true: I can now identify a certificate template at a glance and I have no professional use for that skill whatsoever.
Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice.
a.villalobos, post #18: Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not. Go to post
Lounge question, no agenda: does anyone else keep a physical notebook for this rather than a file? Mine is more use than anything I have typed, and I cannot entirely explain why.
The claim is narrower than it sounds, and deliberately so.
Not a technical point, just an observation: the register here holds because people correct themselves in public and nobody scores points off it. That is rarer than the software.
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h.delgado, post #45: Useful. I have added it to my own notes with the date on it. Go to post
Politics and public policy: healthcare policy that affects access to these compounds is relevant here. Partisan politics is not.
I would call that likely rather than established.
That is true everywhere. The reference material that gets used is the material that answers a question you have at the moment you have it, and glamour has nothing to do with it.
If anyone can point at the primary source I would be grateful.
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Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work.
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