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- Comment on DNA 1 day ago:
Aka chrolling for clickbate.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
yes, and the latest “conservative” assailants on UK (maybe mostly English) health system wear red roses on their lapels.
They all see a giant unmilked cash cow wandering around in a short skirt.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Apparently no one is 100% sure whether bloodsucking worms were named after doctors that used them, or doctors were named after the blood sucking worms that they commonly prescribed.
“Leech” being an old timey name for a medical doctor, possibly predating the term “doctor” which just came from “teacher” like “doctrine” or something.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
I’m talking about sotware they produce and my employer buys that i’m expected to use.
I can’t rewrite their “tools” and databases and fucking awful cloud-web front end things. I tend to think multi-billion$ shitware companies should do that; but even so no way I’d be allowed.
Yes, I do end up having to write my own tools choosing whatever free stuff I’m allowed to have, or can get working, Yes, It’s incredibly easy in any half way decent (including free) software, far from rocket science, that is until you try to put something back into a database via one of these “tools”.
So you work around, pre-processing, post-processing, get it working. Then they unexpectedly release a “patch” that sees through my work-a-round and tries to convert the thing i’d convinced it to treat as string into a screwed up datetime again.
Next time, I will prepend “fuckoracleiquit” to all datetimes before they go into the database.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
They need to be told a fuck of a lot harder then.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Yes.
If I saw that in a job advert I might just apply without reading the rest. I don’t think I ever have though.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t “annoy” me.
I like employers to be open and honest about their various incompetencies. Saves time.
There’s a few other warning signs in that statement too - nice of them sift themselves out so quickly.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Please someone tell oracle and microsoft.
- Comment on If it bleeds, we can kill it 2 weeks ago:
Interesting observation. But i still can’t believe it is possible to do things to people that they don’t like. Must’ve been a fluke.
- Comment on If it bleeds, we can kill it 2 weeks ago:
If you try to shoot someone in the head they’ll just move too.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Thre must be an equivelent to “ate the onion” for “ate the Arrow-Debreu (1954)”
- Comment on Soup help needed 3 weeks ago:
watch out for dragons. https://youtu.be/Slzv5IJiXaw
- Comment on Horse denier 4 weeks ago:
neigh
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 weeks ago:
How do they if you dont plug them in to the network, do they have cellular, or some sort of PLC? Can they hack WPA? maybe they’re more powerful than i’d creditt them for.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 weeks ago:
Linux doesnt “force” chip makers. It tries to collaborate , that’s the point of what Linus has been saying and doing for several years. I don’t know which market you’re talking about though, embedded - which is relevant here, or consumer PC. I don’t even think MS gives a shit about consumer PC, it’s worth next to nothing to anyone - maybe apple does.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
apple mac?
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
It’s simply, filter paper, coffee mug. With plastic cone thingy in between to hold the filter paper above the cup
It’s the same as Debian really, it just looks more primitive.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
I’d think most people woud go for a cheap used ultra Small Form Factor pc or raspberry pi set up as an htpc. Plug in to either tv screen (via hdmi ) or monitor / projector directly. Never connect the tv to the internet - or even to your LAN if you’re really paranoid. You can arse around with a remote control a bit bodgy, or just use wireless Keyboard/mouse.
I cant imagine spending the time to jailbreak a tv to get less functionality for more hassle - but i’m sure some crazy will have done it - good luck finding them though.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
I think he needs to work with HW manufacturers and chip designers/manufacturers to get drivers. They’re always going to have some proprietary HW and FW and communication protocols somewhere in their stuff. I think if he pisses them off too much he has to to bit-bash or reverse engineer all drivers for loads of stuff - which is never going to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“50 Phil Ochs fans can’t be wrong” is like the original “There are dozens of us”.
- Comment on Premium Ads 5 weeks ago:
German data comes in bittes
- Comment on What would it feel like passing through a wormhole? 1 month ago:
“. . . you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
- Comment on What percentage of lead gets washed off the fingers of a typical human after handling lead solder? 1 month ago:
Shove some electricity up the arse, works on mine.
- Comment on it’s hard being a twisted fucking cycle path 1 month ago:
bike polar disorder.
- Comment on Calculatable 1 month ago:
Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.
I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.
- Comment on Curves 1 month ago:
Video it then press pause.
- Comment on Losing the pivotal extortionist vote 1 month ago:
Isn’t this just that green cartoon ogre thing?
Very overrated film too; very 2-dimensional characters.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
oh “online community” , sorry I think I’ve misunderstood this whole thing. I mean, I don’t even know what a GenZ are. Is that, like, doing the emails? https://youtu.be/jK-ZRxeJIiU?t=14
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
I’d call that a “webpage” though, one with an ill-fitting name. One person with a sandwich board and a megaphone yelling at a few passers by who at best smile, give a half-hearted thumbs up, then walk away.
To me, for it to live up to the name “community” that implies several people sharing stuff and a bit of reciprocity.
Of course that might take time, the first poster might be one of those proverbial people planting those trees that they’re never going benefit fron the shade of. Theres no harm in just creating it making a few posts and leaving them there- it might become active eventually. But it could be never and it will inevitably take a lot longer if the platform only has a million users a day total than if it had a billion.
You can probably do some sort of critical-mass / chain-reaction / markov chain type model to get a handle on the chances of a niche community becoming active in small population. Like that ‘Drake equation’ for trying to stop people wasting resources on SETI.
- Comment on Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼 1 month ago:
torturelini spookghetti penne arra-bat-a Pizza Morguerita
and you can serve Vampolicella or Mortepulciano