CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- 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:
What programmer in their right mind uses / instead of -?
I use the delimiter when writing out log files when I want hour or minute in the logfile name. SantaChimneyLog_20241225-0312.txt. Otherwise yeah it just gets left off.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention those of us that just lived in the wrong country for a while in the 80’s.
- Comment on Did Google just have a little hiccup? 2 weeks ago:
They were going to do a page like this for Azure but realized that page would be larger than the rest of Wikipedia.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
I was going to praise this guy for beating Weird Al to the punch by 4 years, but the Zoloft and phone jokes give it away as a fake (or at least not from 1995).
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
Me: “Huh, there’s no Trash option here.”
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
You ought to edit your comment above because it reads like you’re telling people those things are dangerous.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
every hour was amateur hour!
lol, I am stealing this!
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
Enough said. You have my sympathy.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
That means your mail admins sucked at their job.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 4 weeks ago:
Wonder what the back end software is there. With Exchange reply-all storms are a thing of the past. I don’t have to convince anyone of anything to stop a reply all storm. Takes 2 minutes of setting up a transport rule. But the admin needs to be experienced enough to know that.
- Comment on I want a name for this 4 weeks ago:
I like this one!
- Comment on I want a name for this 4 weeks ago:
Sure bud, tell me about the condition I’ve had all my life and how my life didn’t get immeasurably better when I finally got diagnosed and treated by a professional in my 4th decade of life.
So ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Trump voter?
- Comment on I want a name for this 4 weeks ago:
I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.
- Comment on Norm MacDonald - Suicide 4 weeks ago:
So scholastically friendly, wonder why that channel never took off.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Any rational person can see the difference, doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Just because democrats are way better than republicans doesn’t mean they are GOOD. Both parties attract corrupt greedy powermongers. MAGA / GOP just gets the lion’s share.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Republican policies usually are better for people living in rural areas
I’m surprised you read past this complete fallacy. I stopped there.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
The root of it is that we don’t teach skepticism or critical thinking in public schools. Seriously.
Question authority. Question everything. But especially question authority. They rarely have your best interests in mind.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 weeks ago:
Astronomers track centimeter-sized objects up in space
No they don’t
Which is possible to track, just not done.
I rest my case. Precision is important in astronomy.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 weeks ago:
That’s 10 times bigger than what you said originally.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 weeks ago:
No they don’t. Our greatest success to date was predicting a 1m wide asteroid a whole 3 hours before it hit.
That’s actually impressive given the challenge at hand. But nobody is tracking centimeter sized objects outside Earths orbit. And the ones they are tracking in orbit are man made trash and not rocks.
- Comment on do you combine stair climbing with running when working out? 4 weeks ago:
I wish more people understood this. You can ruin a 2 hour workout with 5 minutes in the pantry, when it comes to weight loss.
CICO, it’s just physics.
See: college professor that lost weight eating nothing but Twinkies for a month, but he was eating at a calorie deficit every day.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He’s not worth ruining your sobriety over but I completely understand the sentiment.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
I think Destiny is the only game I ever put over 2,000 hours into, but Factorio might take the crown soon - 1800 and counting.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 5 weeks ago:
I’d be fine. If my email provider goes away, my troubles are over, because my email provider is me!
- Comment on Can you survive nuclear fallout? 5 weeks ago:
As a great philosopher once said, “Nobody gets out of life alive.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I feel you. We have to come to terms with the fact that we are the minority in this country and that most of our fellow citizens value their own self interest more than the promise of a better system for all Americans.
It’s a bitter pill to swallow. You’re going to resent your fellow Americans. I know I do.
The fact is all we can do now is try to survive and protect those we care about. I think spending energy on contesting the results is a waste of time. If they cheated on a scale that gave them millions of extra votes somebody would have found evidence by now. Truth is we lost. And enough Americans are ok with a convict rapist pedophile narcissistic serial liar being in charge of the worlds most powerful military that we actually are powerless. So that energy should instead be spent on anything we can do to protect those the administration is going to target. Keep your head down. But don’t give up.
- Comment on if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it? 5 weeks ago:
Wool is fantastic for cold weather activity because unlike cotton it still insulates when wet.
I still wouldn’t want to RUN in wool, but it makes up some indispensable parts of my ski kit. And it has been tested!
- Comment on if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it? 5 weeks ago:
You can get a thin smartwool or polypro base layer from a ski shop for like $50, even cheaper on sale but it’s the wrong time of year for that. That’s probably all you would need unless you’re planning on running in a blizzard.
When I was in the military a bazillion years ago, our winter running uniform was a beanie to add to our t-shirt and shorts. That was it. If it was SUPER cold (like, below freezing) we’d get to wear sweatpants and a sweatshirt. Then we’d go run 4 miles in the dark. If you got too cold you just had to run faster. :)
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 1 month ago:
But what if someone hid a Bat’leth inside one of them?
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 1 month ago:
Huh. Never had an issue even with nice shoes. I guess I just have slippery feet.
I actually do have some joint hyper mobility so maybe that’s why I don’t see the utility of it? Dunno.