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- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
So you knew all the stories of American food portions and you still chose to order a meal that even we call “large”?
- Comment on Thanks, Logan. 2 months ago:
They’d get the same tax deduction by disposing of the drinks.
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 3 months ago:
That’s why they fly upwards into international space first, duh.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 4 months ago:
Most don’t get that many. OP is likely targeted in the systems. My guess is that he votes often in the primaries and has shown interest elsewhere, like by signing up for communications or donating to or volunteering for campaigns.
I just checked my spam and I’ve received four political texts in July.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 4 months ago:
Call screening is honestly one of the best features to ever come to a phone. I really wish this could be added to every handset.
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 5 months ago:
I’m all for American versions of things, but please get these staples of British cuisine right.
Kind of ironic this is where you’re making a stand.
The first known use of the recipe for pig in a blanket, the American cuisine, was in 1940.
The first known use of the recipe for pigs in blankets, the British cuisine, was in 1957 and was inspired by the American recipe.
- Comment on Real 5 months ago:
My TV came with a five year warranty - two year manufacturer, two years Costco, and one year from my Costco credit card.
My washer and dryer got seven. Same deal, but Costco was offering an extra extended warranty plan for free.
The best part is that they design their warranties to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Unfortunately, Citi got rid of the extended warranty with the Costco credit cards about a year and a half ago.
- Comment on Non-binary 6 months ago:
That’s every binary, though. False are everything that’s not true. Ones are everything that’s not zero.
- Comment on Non-binary 6 months ago:
God cloned Adam to make Eve, thus we all are the same gender. Wake up sheeple!
- Comment on Non-binary 6 months ago:
No, that’s just quantum gender mechanics.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 6 months ago:
Missing diffs is a problem, though.
I don’t get how Microsoft owns GitHub yet hasn’t figured out any way to actually create a spec that would be git compatible for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files yet.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 7 months ago:
That is quite possibly the least helpful answer you could give.
- Comment on stoners 8 months ago:
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 8 months ago:
It wasn’t even really common in the US until the 70s-80s.
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 8 months ago:
Now I’m a much happier person with a much better job, but my finances are LOLfukt.
Not really; you just found out why an emergency fund is important.
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 8 months ago:
Easiest way to do it is with your direct deposit.
Go to your work. Fill out a change form for your direct deposit. Have $X sent directly to your savings account.
It’s much less tempting to spend the money when it’s already in your savings account.
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 8 months ago:
You will never make more interest on an investment than you will get charged interest for the same amount as a loan. Ever. It does not happen.
This is barely more accurate than a coin flip. Until 2021, it wasn’t that difficult to find loans with rates under 5%. Anything under 4% is basically free money and you’re normally better off investing in something low risk than to pay extra.
So for me to sit on money that could go towards paying down debts, I’m just needlessly paying more in interest than I would be otherwise.
If you don’t have any emergency funds, or not enough to cover a single large emergency, this is dumb. Cars break, roofs leak, etc. Even if you have an emergency where you can pay on credit, you’ll likely be looking at credit card interest rates. Or, you lose your job. Fun fact, most job loses occur when the economy is struggling. Another fun fact, most investments are doing really fucking poorly when the economy is struggling.
Keep some money on hand in case something happens.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
If you’re lounging around, 60 is perfect.
If you’re doing work outside, 50 is perfect.
If you’re doing heavy exercise, 40 is perfect.
- Comment on This person's rejection reason 11 months ago:
Age discrimination only applies if you’re above 55.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 1 year ago:
And when they’re not showing weather reports, they’re showing off dope tornadoes and hurricanes and shit.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 1 year ago:
Oh it absolutely did not work properly. We lost a $300M lawsuit because the system would bill clients wrong.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 1 year ago:
What’s the use case?
Like for anything financial, Excel files are preferable.
Although I will say this. Companies are lying when they say they want Excel exports. They don’t. They want CSV but they don’t know the difference.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 1 year ago:
I work in Finance at my company and we always save revised copies for Excel files instead of saving over.
But we also have strict rules on it. File name is always “xxxx_Workbook Template Name_MMDDYY.xlsx” or “_YYYY_MM.xlsx”, depending on how often it gets updated.
Older versions get moved to a subfolder. It helps us go back and find out what something was if there was a mistake or revert back if Excel done fucks up.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 1 year ago:
My old company had a revenue system built in-house that only could run on MS-DOS. We needed a VM just to use it.
I left that company in 2019 and they were still using it.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 1 year ago:
Nah, the worst part is when I have to watch someone else use Excel.
YOU DON’T NEED TO RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT COPY. YOU CAN JUST PRESS CTRL+C.
And virtually none of them know how to paste values, so all the templates end up messed up.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
I get mandatory tips on large parties as long as the policy is made clear before ordering. But like you said, service charges are ridiculous and so are mandatory tips for small groups.
- Comment on An EXTRA Hour! 1 year ago:
I don’t. My four month-old doesn’t understand DST
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
It’s only the wrong solution if you’re writing something where every operation needs to be accounted for. Modulo is a great, easy, readable method otherwise.
Not too certain on C++, but I think this would be the cleanest implementation that still somewhat optimizes itself:
private bool IsEven(int number){ return !(number % 2) }
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
Okay wow no need to get personal.
- Comment on Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game 1 year ago:
You also have options that change depending on your skills and progress.
You can choose to bribe, persuade, manipulate, flex your muscles, or do them a favor. Sometimes you can choose to kill them if they’re not cooperating.
The whole no choice paradigm was much more true for FO4 than for Starfield.
