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- Comment on Coffee ☕ 9 hours ago:
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
“Two days of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation.”
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 15 hours ago:
Yet another invention driven by laziness.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 day ago:
It’s been a while since phones started asking for user confirmation to open a link from a QR code.
- Comment on Anon has anxiety 3 days ago:
No, I’m pretty sure it was about eating. But hey, whatever tickles your imagination…
- Comment on Anon has anxiety 4 days ago:
Reminds me of the case when anon found out that very cold and very spicy foods don’t cancel each other out.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 4 days ago:
Sadly, it’s negated ten times over by all those who litter.
- Comment on commitment 2 weeks ago:
Given that they now give out loans for people to buy pizza, that’s a solid achievement.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 3 weeks ago:
Somehow I missed the “up by” the first time around, and was confused about who would be so bored to hang themselves.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
He’d need to come up with something new. MySpace was sold some years ago.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 1 month ago:
If the cursor can go on a monitor that’s currently off, there’s something very weird with your configuration.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 1 month ago:
I’m on one of the last versions from before the acquisition (8.1.1) and intend to use it for as long as I can while searching for alternatives. Thankfully my Prime key still works (email one, not Play Store), maybe the checks are hardcoded in some way.
What I’m thinking now is to get the APK and self-sign it as a way to prevent Play Store from auto updating it. I’m with a non-rooted device, this seems to be about the only way I have. I have already unchecked the auto update for it, but it still appears in the update list, and if I tap “Update all”, it would update. Does anyone have experience with this?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 1 month ago:
A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
That’s very much in the spirit of “Stop being poor”.
- Comment on Huh? 2 months ago:
Speakeasies were still a thing last time I checked.
- Comment on Self-Care 2 months ago:
Earthquake detection kit.
On a serious note, my issue with these is that they’re plastic and when they eventually fall off they’ll become litter.
- Comment on Good luck 2 months ago:
Some of those with printing on them would fade pretty badly.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 months ago:
Speak for yourself. You’re probably a native English speaker and have it easy.
- Comment on Mafs 2 months ago:
Yeah, but 4:20 originates as a time. The problem happens when you want to put it into a date as well.
Time is the only exception where I agree that the less specific part can come before the more specific one - just because more often than not one does not make sense without the other.
- Comment on Mafs 2 months ago:
At least 1st of May is a date that can actually happen.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 months ago:
I remember getting ice cream from McDonald’s - must’ve been 15 years ago. It was somewhat nice, but then the whole “the ice cream machine is broken” thing started and I haven’t bothered any more. Can’t tell about the rest of the food, but I share the sentiment that if it’s getting shittier and shittier, you shouldn’t support it.
- Comment on Please the Beans 2 months ago:
SASA LELE
- Comment on Evidence 2 months ago:
Common scenario to collect gullible people and scam them later - or just get them to like a certain page and then sell the page with the likes.
Local supermarket chain is giving away free cars, just like and comment this post. Oh, and by the way the page was created two days ago and has 15 likes - must be legit!
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 2 months ago:
Why Is Every Word Capitalised Though?
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 months ago:
Directional cables kind of make sense in an analogue, single-ended connection if it’s about the shielding being connected to ground only on one side… although I haven’t tried it in practice. Still, it has nothing to do with signal directionality, just noise rejection. The ground lift switch on some devices does the same.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 months ago:
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
Context is everything.
“When are you guys coming over?”
“We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”
If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.
In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 months ago:
Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or you) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 months ago:
I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.
- Comment on Sea Level 2 months ago:
The sole fact that we’re here means that we don’t even have to think about those, but yeah.