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by zoky 3y ago
And how is the called method supposed to be able to determine whether the state of the world is irreconcilable? For that matter, how is the called method supposed to determine what the state of the world even is? And why on Earth would we t
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by zoky 3y ago
> Panic isn't supposed to be "I'm not sure what to do now, maybe my caller will know?". So panic is supposed to be “I’m not sure what to do now, I don’t care if my caller knows”? No process running outside of kernel s
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by zoky 3y ago
Wow, that’s a really stupid bug, especially given the general level of awareness of the Y2K problem at the time the system probably was being built. Whoever the hell looked at a 9 digit timestamp that started with a 9 and said “nah, we’re
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by zoky 3y ago
It occurred to me though that it could also be a “double-dipping” scam. The fake shipping company supposedly “loses” the merchandise, an insurance claim is filed, then the Kit Kats are quietly retrieved and resold. In that case, even if the
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by zoky 3y ago
Especially when they hadn’t even made any money on the scam, according to the article. What’s the angle here? It’s a bit far-fetched I suppose, but the only possible explanation I can see for all of this is that this is an attempted (but bu
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by zoky 3y ago
Oh, we all know that these things are just the wurst.
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by zoky 3y ago
Moose don’t give a fuck. A moose would derail a train just ‘cause.
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by zoky 3y ago
You couldn’t use a computer on standardized testing. The HP48 series had so much built-in functionality that they arguably shouldn’t have been allowed. For myself, a perennially shitty and unmotivated math student in high school, the SAT
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by zoky 3y ago
You’ve obviously never used an HP 48GX. An RPN graphing calculator, that actually had a real usable programming language onboard, and included communications (serial and IR) and expandability, in 1993? And it could function as a TV remote t
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by zoky 3y ago
It never ends. I have 4 monitors and sometimes wish I had 5 or 6. If I could physically fit more monitors on my desk, I would.
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by zoky 3y ago
For listening to music/white noise/droning YouTube videos while falling asleep.
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by zoky 3y ago
Once you figure out you can pretty easily hack top level bank accounts for effectively unlimited money, the game loses a lot of its replay value. I absolutely loved this game when it first came out and I played it on my Snow iBook G3. I sub
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by zoky 3y ago
“At the time, we made fertilizer…” Cool, but still needs some work.
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by zoky 3y ago
So the feds can just ship anyone uranium, then insist on searching their house “to confirm it’s all gone”, and you think they’d be able to get a warrant to do so if you refused to consent? Bypass anyone’s Fourth Amendment rights with this o
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by zoky 3y ago
Not that I disagree with you at all, but what do you then say to the response that this is just a slippery slope fallacy?
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by zoky 3y ago
> I actually have a hard time imagining a scenario where a fuzzy date is more helpful than the exact one. It can be, in niche scenarios. I have an application that pulls information in from another database, reformats it, and displays it
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by zoky 3y ago
5 digit house numbers are pretty common throughout California, partly because in general, house numbers will start a new group of 100 each block, making it a lot easier to identify in which part of town a given address falls. So a given blo
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by zoky 3y ago
There are a few areas in L.A. where between 137th St. and 138th St. you will find the much smaller 137th Pl.
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by zoky 3y ago
Have you considered using py-appscript to trigger AppleScript events natively from Python? https://github.com/hhas/appscript/tree/master/py-appscript I’ve only ever used the Ruby version of Appscript to
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by zoky 3y ago
Meh, it was okay. Not nearly as good as the artiste (and COVID denialist and general arsehole) Jonathan Blow made it out to be.
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by zoky 3y ago
Ruby is strongly typed.
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by zoky 3y ago
I mean, put a little gnome hat on him and I’d believe it…
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by zoky 3y ago
That doesn’t necessarily follow though. Consumers are more likely to go to a store that takes credit cards and spend more once they are there than a store that accepts only cash. If the merchant has to pay 3% in credit card fees for a 20% i
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by zoky 3y ago
Similarly, someone mentioned to me recently a novel that they had read partially, but could only remember that it was originally written in Spanish, was very long, had a number for a title, and centered around themes of rape and murder. Whe
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by zoky 3y ago
Indeed, however all but eight or nine of them were rather foolish
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by zoky 3y ago
And your codebase is still a mess you say? Huh. Maybe try adding some `unless` statements, I've heard they really help.
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by zoky 3y ago
…said every newly installed manager ever.
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by zoky 3y ago
Do you make them replace `each` iterators with `for` loops as well, just because that’s “how it’s done” in your preferred language? The “fail early” principle is a widely accepted pattern, and that’s exactly what the `unless` statement faci
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by zoky 3y ago
JSON is a particularly bad example, given that most of the commonly used scripting languages have standard libraries to parse JSON into a native data structure.
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by zoky 3y ago
Okay, who let rms in here?

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