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I like to jump out of bed and put weight on the leg.

That is if my blanket doesn’t trip me.

Chocolate production is infested with slave labor, child labor and child slave labor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

The author should be killed for indentation alone.

Döner Kebab isn’t even a Turkish specialty. In Turkey, Döner (referring to the meat that turns) is served on a plate with salad and bread. It’s not fast food like the German Döner Kebab, and it’s not meant to be taken to go.

Döner Kebab was invented in Germany by a Turkish immigrant whose traditional Döner didn’t fare well, because Germans were always in a hurry.

Or so the story goes that I heard in a documentary on German TV about 15 years ago.

Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong with the tool?

– Yes, that happened.

Teach this to your manager: At the beginning of a task, uncertainty is highest. Under no circumstances should you give an estimate in ‘man-hours’. Even days is too precise. The first estimate should be in months or years (of course depending on the size of the project). Then, as your insight into the project grows, you refine that to months, then weeks, later days. A vague estimate with a lower and a higher bound is way more useful to your manager than a ridiculously ‘precise’ but highly speculative number.

This lesson was brought to you by either “Code Complete 2” or “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnel, and by my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.

In my experience it’s the other way around.

Now I want to know what the issue was.

And the “solution”.

Forgive my ignorance. SQLite is a database software. Why would McAffee create lots of database files?

[Edit:] I’m not asking why a program needs to store data. I’m asking why that necessitates many files. One database file (or one per table) should be enough, right?

So you’re that contractor that always shits out code that looks like the guy who wrote it was just learning the language?

You can’t blame that on the cop. How was he to know that the only black person on site wasn’t the criminal?

/s

I’ve been thinking this, too. Very few people draw over others’ paintings.

Also: No penises. WTF?

Spinners must die. I don’t care if I don’t understand what exactly you’re doing, Windows, (I’d be surprised if you knew), but show me something, anything about the steps you’re currently doing, so I can guess if you’re doing something at all.

For those who don’t know:

Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare hyperbolically apologized for "inventing" the null reference:[26] [27]

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

There’s a great section in the second Hitchhiker’s book about this exact topic – if anyone’s interested.

The app will find the file incomprehensible and will tell you that the file is corrupted or in a format the app can’t understand.

An app that works with raw next (Windows’ Editor or notepad++ or any IDE) will try to parse the binary data as text and fail miserably, showing you lots of undecodable-unicode characters.

Example:

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This will inevitable lead to “works on my machine” scenarios

Isn’t that what Python is all about?

Do they think

no.

Back on the bad, old site, someone hypothesized that enough people tripped over that thing when it was covered by snow that it finally got moved to the side.

Not the corpse, but those who helped him.

That’s interesting. Obviously, you’d put a center dot to disambiguate millihertz from meter-hertz, but I can’t recall ever having learned a rule about that. So some combinations of units are inherently ambiguous?

Also: Hz/dpt.

Indeed. Yet every webpage ever has an outdated copyright year.

I once asked a cashier in Germany if she thought self-checkouts would take away her job. She said she liked them because there's enough to do anyway and they take away the boring task of cashier-ing.

Sure, Java can tell the difference. But that doesn’t mean that the guy writing the API cares whether or not he adds a key to the dictionary before yeeting it to the client.

In my defense, the backend contracts change so often in early development the any just made sense at first…

Refactorings and changes are the prime reason to use TypeScript. You edit your data objects and get squigglies everywhere shit won’t work anymore. A godsend!

I had two deployments today and then left for an early weekend.

Readonly friday is for pussies.

Or even funnier: It gets parsed in octal, which does yield a valid zip code. Good luck finding that.

Even if it scares people, why not provide a goddamn toggle to enable it for the non-dipshits?

This is how markdown works. There is no way to disable that. This is an old convention from when text editors didn’t wrap lines automatically and enables you to write long paragraphs of text, breaking the lines as it makes sense to you, without creating a paragraph each time.

See the Lemmy help page on markdown or the Markdown Guide.

every developed country in the world casts itself as the greatest country on earth

Not Germany.

For once.

And for the time being.

You can’t detect all credentials reliably,

Easy. You check in the password file first. Then you can check if the codebase contains any entry on the blacklist.

Wait…

Indeed, I got the terminology wrong. „Kebap“ is the meat, „döner” means it turns.

I’m amazed that no-one has complained that the graph’s data points are on the borders between categories rather than inside the category bars.

With that out of the way: WTF is wrong with that graph?

Since I don’t like Veritasium, I’ll suggest the CGPGrey videos:

• First Past the Post
• Alternative Vote
• Single Transferable Vote

Me, city boi: woww!! I’ve never seen moss this soft! What are these flying things? I didn’t know trees come in multiple colors! Oh, something bit me. ded.

My manager once accused me of overinflating my (granted, very conservative) estimates just to be able to pull off a Scotty and be early in 10% of the time.

Not a shitpost.

Any project that uses d3.