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There was that one bash.org quote where a script kiddie was given 127.0.0.1 as part of an "oh yeah I dare you" taunt after he said he could hack anyone, and he fell for it hook line and sinker. He was posting things like "Hahaha your K drive is being deleted! Now your H drive! [connection reset by peer]" and right after that the challenger was like "I don't even have a K drive."

(RIP bash.org though. I would have tried to link it otherwise)

95% of all "Introduction to " books tend to dedicate the first couple of chapters to the fundamentals but with a specific bias towards the language in question. Seek out a few of those at a library or online equivalent and you'll start to see patterns cropping up.

Anything that doesn't have that bias is likely to use pseudocode which looks like a programming language anyway.

Object orientation works around the concept that things in the program "know" things about themselves and how to do things for themselves rather than have some other part of the program do things to them. Commonly you'll see things like doSomethingWith(someObject) being the non-OO way and someObject.doSomething being the OO way. That is, in the latter someObject contains the knowledge of how to doSomething, and the dot notation urges it to do whatever it is.

For a silly but more concrete example, x ← 2 + 2 is non-OO, but x ← 2.add(2) is at least partially OO because the first 2 is expected to know how to add another 2 to itself and give out the correct answer. Presumably in whatever language that is, someone has created a method for numbers to know what to do when told to add. The other 2 doesn't really get a say in things. We might also have, say, elephant.putOn(hat), but it might not be possible to hat.putOn(elephant) because no-one thought to teach the hat how to wear things, let alone elephants.

How about, I don't know, not yanking the cord (or setting things up so the cord is yanked automatically) and pursuing the payment later?

But then that could mean that someone might - even temporarily - get something for nothing, and they can't be seen to promote anything even remotely similar to that.

Perhaps this tiny company are so close to the knife edge that they can't afford to allow it to happen. Must have constant revenue stream or else close up sho... wait, Micro-who?

"But I did nothing wrong" -- the boy who dared challenge Putin's ideology.

Look, kid, if you speak out against things Poots says are OK, you're going to prison, simple as.

Gotta be a mindless yes-man automaton, or suffer the consequences. Get any idea of independent thought out of your head and consider yourself lucky you weren't standing near any windows.

There used to be a joke in Russia called "China's final warning" because of the hundreds of times China used to threaten a "final warning" to whoever it perceived (correctly or otherwise) as encroaching on its politics or territories, and then promptly did absolutely nothing.

The joke is in danger of defecting and getting a new name.

I just imagined a horrible alternative universe where it's illegal for brand names to become corrupted regardless of whatever else happens to data. Eventually humanity would start communicating only in brand names to ensure messages get through. *shudder*

The stereotypical pirate "accent" derives from the west country (south west England) accent of one man who played Long John Silver in an adaptation of Treasure Island.

Though regional accents are dying out, you could probably still find a handful of people in the south west who will answer in the affirmative with "(y)arr".

... which is the second fact, I guess. "Arr" means "yes".

I tried that and found myself pondering the cylinder whose height is its diameter. Half way, you might say, between orb and cube, but is neither. The orb would fit inside it and it would fit inside a cube of similar height three different ways.

That free idea reduces (potential) ad watch time which reduces money, so there's no chance they'll implement it.

If they thought they could get away with serving an ad every 15 seconds, they'd do it.

Nah, they'll just make life more difficult for any employees who take bathroom breaks, if not find some "clearly unrelated" excuse to outright fire them.

Assuming 1) you want things to be colder, 2) your budget can accommodate a bit of extra electricity usage and 3) the following actually exists on your appliance, many freezers have a dial somewhere that can be used to set the temperature.

Sometimes it's coupled to the setting for an attached refrigerator section. Sometimes, yes, it's an unchangeable setting whether there are other settings elsewhere or not. Might still be worth double-checking.

Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?

Are you aware of the legendary Ryan's Steakhouse story?

Hell, that thing might be an urban legend, but it's supremely well written and if I was in graphic design, that story alone would probably lead me to thinking that selling signs like this would be a good idea.

If you haven't heard it, a web search for "The Steakhouse incident" (with quotes) or "macaroni beef toilet story" (no quotes) will probably turn up yet another re-hosting of it.

For the lazy, here's one I found just now: http://www.ihos.com/steakhouse.html

They can correlate that information with your other browsing habits and start to form a picture about the sort of person who shares your interests, regardless of how bizarre those might be.

It's not an exact science because everyone is different, but once they have that picture they can start pushing the buttons of one person like and derive some conclusions about how the rest of that cohort, including you, will react.

They don't even have to be successful all of the time. Just more than would be expected from random chance.

A stone in the right place can divert the mightiest of rivers.

✅ "What did you do that for?"

✅ "Why did you do that?"

🚫 "Why did you do that for?"

...

⁉️ "Wherefore did you that?"

Well, it could be you, or it could be me, as I've hit the same waypoints.

fedia.io wasn't taking sign-ups at the time I went to kbin.run, but they are right now, so that's where I've ended up this time.

If this one dies too, I guess I'll take the jinx with me back to Reddit and see what happens there.

WHY IN GODS NAME ARE YOU LEAF-BLOWING AT 8AM ON A SATURDAY

These people are usually the sorts who rise at 5am regardless of day and have become bored after 3 hours awake. If they think about it at all, they believe that everyone who is not yet up by 8am is a fool who ought to be out of bed, thus that is the perfect time to make noise.

As to why they rise at 5am, take your pick from: i) Old and unable to sleep for long periods - Will be asleep again in an armchair by 11am once they've gone back inside; ii) Military bearing or wannabe - Probably has reveille.wav for an alarm; iii) Abject a-hole who gets a kick out of it. Honourable mention: iv) someone with no choice under direction from one of the above.

Unfortunately there is art to knowing when one should not get in the ditch and try and instead leave it to an expert.

Home electrical is one such murky area, for example. Replacing a bulb? Get in the metaphorical ditch. Installing a fusebox? Call an expert. This much is clear. Replacing a light switch? Ah. Now there's a problem.

You have the perfect username for that comment.

There are devices that literally shake the bed to wake up a sleeper. Most often used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people for whom audio alarms are non-starters, but it could work for you if you're actually sleeping through and not snoozing. There are a few that work on smells as well.

I once gave a vegan friend of mine pause for thought when I pointed out that we probably shouldn't be keeping pets in the first place if those pets aren't in their natural habitat doing what their species evolved to do. They had cats.

An excellent dude played by George Carlin.

But the internet seems to suggest it's an AI that first debuted in Amazon's mobile app. Maybe it's been released onto the main website or maybe just the main .com or something. (I'm in .co.uk land, and try not to use Amazon unless I absolutely have to.)

From the article I skimmed, there is - or was back in March - no way to save or export conversations had with it, which seems like a red flag to me.

Peroxide and then hypochlorite bleach. Not at the same time. There are products that contain them if you can't get them neat. In fact I recommend those.

Try the peroxide first. Dilute as necessary. Wipe or spray on. Leave it on for a while to loosen anything and everything it can. After a while fill with hot (60-80C) water, but beware of thermal shock. Leave to stand until warm, not hot. Try to clean the glasses as best you can. This may be all you need.

If not, try the bleach. Same steps, but make sure you're in a well ventilated area. I've found that while it stinks up the place, the mould just peels right off and into the hot bleach solution.

If the glasses smell of bleach afterwards, fill with warm water and leave for a day or two. Repeat as necessary. The bleach will dissipate eventually.

If that's what I think it is, we use "skid marks" as a euphemism in English too.

Cost or no cost, IoT should not be able to brick devices on the whim - or unexpected dissolution - of a faceless corporation.

Unfortunately too many people are trusting of monolithic entities which promise the moon and then decide what they really meant was "bend over".

I may be channelling a bit of Louis Rossman here.

That said, the other comments here suggest that the device in question still has all features when accessed from the front panel, which is a step up from a lot of other IoT behaviour. Owners who don't want to pay for the app should still disconnect it from any connectivity and keep it that way just in case the manufacturer decides to remove that functionality as well.

And if it stops working altogether without network connectivity, take the L and maybe mail it back to the company's head office with no return address. Let them deal with the e-waste.

"They're back! In POG form!"

But seriously, with the way web search seems to be going these days, webrings coming back might actually be useful.

"Hurt me, daddy."

"OK, now you've made it weird."

"Aw yeah, that's the stuff."

Where's "here"? I'm in the UK and only discovered that there had been a specific saying, in (Soviet) Russia, about (contemporaneous) China, very recently. Maybe it was a joke I wasn't privy to or heard but was too young to appreciate at the time.

(As to how I discovered it recently: I had been looking for a name or "law" for the concept of constantly making vague or empty threats - it's kind of like crying wolf, but not - and somehow ended up the Wikipedia article on "China's final warning".)

If you think about it, that's following the rule on the footpath that would otherwise be there. That edge would be towards traffic, it's just reduced to zero width.

There will be those - I suspect - who believe they are above speaking Russian, because they were "raised speaking the language of the greatest country on Earth", and they will believe that the Russians will just accept that for the same reasons, because, obviously Russians know that Americans are better than them.

This mindset is very familiar to me. I'm British.

There literally-literally is.

And to over-egg that particular pudding point, word doubling might be a common thing in "simpler" languages and, ahem, pooh-poohed in "complex" ones, but that second "literally" restores the original meaning.

For now.

Until some bright spark starts using "literally literally" to mean "figuratively" anyway.

Or any of the churches that have kept Christmas where the Julian calendar had it, which is generally some time in January.

My money's on Microsoft Frontpage

If dealing with a small bunch of nutters was so easy, the Troubles wouldn't have been quite so troubling, now, would they?

This would just be the same thing but with a different bunch of nutters.

"Hard" is a strong word. It's not built into the default interface, granted, but it's not that hard to use FF's command line: firefox -P

They have said they're thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.

Most people don't need multiple profiles either.

This panel has a distinctly UK look about it, and I was already thinking that before I read your confirmation. I think only the UK and Ireland use things that look even remotely like this. The rounded appearance also puts it post-war, pre-1980-something because everything changed to be more flat around that time.

As for its purpose, would a bathroom be at the other side of that wall, by any chance? Or was it at some point in the house's history? Heated towel rail is a good bet, for example. You don't want anything vaguely like an outlet in the bathroom (shaver sockets notwithstanding), so wall panels tend to go in a neighbouring hallway or room.

Note that some bathrooms have the light switch on the outside for similar reasons. Others have a pull cord inside the room, which is less able to cause electrocution.

(If you know of a bathroom with a regular light switch inside it, you've found a room that was once something other than a bathroom and whoever remodelled didn't finish the job properly. Or maybe it's in a very badly built house.)

That won't provide a future workforce for the rich and/or powerful in an nationalist society though.

Can't be a shepherd if you don't have sheep.

By the time you're born, you've been aware of the passage of time for, I'm guessing, at least six months, probably more. And the whole infinity problem dissolves when you consider that time awareness probably doesn't just appear in one go, not to mention how that intermingles with consciousness and other levels of awareness.

"Going off" can also mean "be in the process of spoiling / going bad" when referring to foodstuffs, which I only mention to point out that the phrase has at least one alternative use beyond exploding, even if alarms and such aren't considered. More usually in the past tense of "gone off", but it gets some use in the present tense.