jimmygrapes

Joined 6 years ago

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Comment · 15 days ago
I pay this much for a trash collection service that doesn't seem to ever show up and fines me if I get the unlisted rules wrong.
Comment · 20 days ago
I have seen many claims about clean room implementations. I've seen the numerous refutations of reverse engineering binaries. I want to believe. But the pace is too coincidental imo. I know someone from Storycraft has been defending this in each thread and has acknowledged the lawsuit issue on other projects, but still, I'm hesitantly curious about patent violation considerations. Feel like I'm missing something here.
Comment · 27 days ago
IIRC even QuickBASIC 4.5 had a form of "IntelliSense" in the form of hints as to the defined data structure, if provided in DECLARE statements. F1 hints are mentioned elsewhere for built-ins but I seem to recall it (or a similar quick action) also working for a smart of "what kind of data are you allowed to pass to this user defined subroutine or function".
Comment · 27 days ago
Not sure how coffee avoided the pickle trend, or maybe that's next
Comment · 29 days ago
Am I?
Comment · 1 month ago
Refuse to elaborate
Comment · 1 month ago
post-it notes are edible with no discernable side effects (recommend no more than 5 per 24h period, preferably 0)
Comment · 1 month ago
"Remember Moab" has become a sort of in-joke/shibboleth/curse for my close friend group as a reaction to (or identification of) the sort of FB/Instagram things that make real, normal people lose their minds forever.
Comment · 1 month ago
Worst thing is that because the smell is bad and you called it out, too comments are all about the smell vs the substance. I contribute, sadly. Maybe we should all be more judicious with when we say there's a smell, save that for when it's really rank? Like a polite thing. Yeah it stinks but maybe it's worth something beyond that. Not sure if this is the one, just thinking out loud.
Comment · 1 month ago
Presuming these are true, I fail to see how any future politician and/or their administration would be any less susceptible to these issues. Is there some paradigm of virtue out there that I'm not aware of yet who is immune (or at least claims to be)?
Comment · 2 months ago
I suppose I could ask elsewhere but do you (or does anyone else) have a word/term for this?
Comment · 2 months ago
bro, ethernet and cellular data is called WiFi now
Comment · 2 months ago
Pirate books use it a lot!
Comment · 2 months ago
Dealing with this right now. Got some people whose devices are set to display dates as dd/mm/yyyy and the janky pay submission form records it verbatim rather than translate to its internal mm/dd/yyyy format. If it's invalid date it will reject, but a guy submitted for August 4 and got denied for the system recording it as April 8. Spreadsheet MS Forms nonsense. Nobody cares.
Comment · 2 months ago
And yet the democratic process was subverted by the measure being overruled. Moot point.

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