ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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I just realized the irony of Zion Williamson playing basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans.

FYI the original Converse shoes came out in 1917. Now get off my lawn.

There's a fast food chain where I live called Nifty Fifty's ('50s themed of course). They have "dessert milkshakes" for $9.85 - basically shakes with a whole extra dessert blended in - and if you get it malted you're at $10.50. TBF they're really fucking good milkshakes, but $10 is ridiculous.

I'm gonna combine it with intermittent non-pooping.

Not to worry - they'll be replaced with children and prisoners and robots.

In Pulp Fiction (1994) John Travolta's character freaks out over the "5$ milkshake".

My favorite is "{country} furious".

At least he would never wear a white Batman costume. Maybe.

I suppose Qt's cross-platform aspect is a big checkmark in the plus column. My own opinion of Qt is probably colored by the fact that I was forced into it against my will and that the Finns who initially wrote the app were unhelpful and downright hostile to my attempts to customize it in ways that their customization framework did not support.

My cat loved to hang out in my bathroom sink and he often slept there. One night he woke me up by jumping on my chest and batting me in the face, something he never did; when I stepped on the floor my feet sloshed in about an inch of water. Turns out he had managed to push down the sink drain stopper and flip up the faucet lever, and since the sink had no secondary emergency drain (which was weird because I've never seen any other sink without one) it had overflowed and nicely soaked most of my house.

At least he recognized that there was a problem and what he should do about it.

Shedcostumetotinklaphobia

I've used many languages/platforms in my 30 years of programming (take that!), including Visual Basic, C, C#, Java, Objective-C and C++. I agree that C# is the best but not by much. They all do pretty much the same things - if one language lacks something that other languages have shown to be beneficial, that something tends to get incorporated in a future update in some form or another, and their glaring weaknesses tend to get corrected as well (like when Objective-C mostly did away with the need to explicitly release fucking everything).

Good lord, I've never seen anyone say this in public. I used Qt Creator for a couple of years and I found the combination of C++ for under the hood and Javascript for the UI to be a fantastic way of ensuring a nearly nonexistent base of developers who could competently do both. Maybe they grow on trees in Finland, I dunno. And maybe you're talking about some other "Qt", I also dunno.

I've done C# and Java extensively as well and I would never choose Qt over them. I might choose Qt over Objective-C, however.

I got a temporary ban once for racism - for a comment I made about a nonexistent race.

How about sending a delegation of senators and congresscritters to Russia on July 4th?

Time to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

This was a couple of years ago but I think the numbers are still the same: sending a shipping container from Hong Kong to Newark cost about $3000 while sending the same container in the opposite direction cost about $500. This is because we badly want the shit China makes while they don't want anything we make (the same situation that led Great Britain to force China to accept opium at gunpoint almost two hundred years ago). Sending a container to China is so cheap that for a stretch we were actually filling them with our garbage because it was less expensive to dispose of it there.

Anyone who think this represents economic weakness on China's part is batshit crazy.

I don’t buy this explanation for one second.

Why would the demands have even been written up in the first place if they hadn't intended to send them?

Why has no one organized cyber warfare against your regime?

I mean ... the US government (the NSA specifically) can basically read anybody's electronic communications and let themselves into any networked device younger than 25 years old. If there were to be any kind of successful resistance to this administration, it couldn't be "cyber" in any way.