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  • But you DO have a PhD. Claiming it is somehow not valid is a criticism of the establishment that awarded it to you. You're just suffering from impostor syndrome, that's all.

    Also, no employer will consider someone fresh out of education, even someone with a PhD, to have vast quantitites of useful real-world experience, so even declaring a PhD won't see you land your first job with the expectations that you'll ace every bit of it from day one.

    It's good that you realise you know nothing. That is both accurate and useful. But don't take it too far. What your PhD proves is that you have an ability to learn, understand and communicate, and THAT is what employers are looking for.

  • It's like one of those irregular verbs. I've got a cool fantasy, you're a pervert, he's in jail, etc.

  • Sounds like it's not just me that goes "ok then, try arguing with this" when power cycling an unresponsive computer.

  • It's completely valid but needs careful use because it can be destructive. Unrestrained anger is way too common and a huge problem for everyone around those afflicted with it.

  • Not everyone is immune to swearing; I don't see any point in causing unnecessary offence; and they contribute nothing to the meaning, except perhaps voicing a level of emotion which can be better expressed in other ways.

  • Chaos!

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  • Toyota Cymru

  • It hurts.

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  • I have a friend who thinks LOL means "lots of love" and uses it as a generic signoff.

    Had to reread it several times when he wrote "Mother in law died yesterday LOL".

  • Well, I'm not intentionally lying but I may have been misinformed. TIL, thanks.

  • If capitalisation is used to indicate the start of words then it could make sense for a webserver to serve ExpertsExchange and ExpertSexChange. But yeah having 16 possible versions of "main" would be horrendous.

  • Perhaps you could update the Wikipedia article with your knowledge

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers

    "It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance"

  • Pure evil

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  • Must be the updated version of ~~~####3$3$$%^^~~! NO CARRIER

  • It's not stolen. Brief history lesson:

    The lands of Israel and Jordan used to be part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans sided with the Nazis.

    Brief aside: we know the Arabs believe that if you win a war, you win the land, and if you lose a war, you lose the land, because that's what they want to happen with Israel. So this principle applies to them as well.

    When the Nazis lost, the Ottomans also lost, and that's where the British and French Mandates began. The land was no longer owned by the Arabs because, according to the principle they live by, they lost the war, therefore they lost the land.

    The British Mandate for Palestine comprised an amount of previously Ottoman land, of which they allocated one third to the new country Israel (which includes Gaza and the West Bank), and two thirds to the new country Transjordan, later renamed Jordan. The land of Israel was not stolen by the Jews from the Arabs, it was lost by the Arabs in a war they lost. But they got two thirds of that land back, i.e. Jordan.

  • I'm British and I only eat beans and curry, so I can't see any problem here.

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  • Lower performance though. At each iteration through the string you need to compare the length with a counter, which if you want strings longer than 255 characters will have to be multibyte. With NTS you don't need the counter or the multibyte comparison, strings can be indefinitely long, and you only need to check if the byte you just looked at is zero, which most CPUs do for free so you just use a branch-if-[not-]zero instruction.

    The terminating null also gives you a fairly obvious visual clue where the end of the string is when you're debugging with a memory dump. Can you tell where the end of this string is: "ABCDEFGH"? What about now: "ABCD\0EFGH"?

  • I had a Sony phone once. It was shite. Couldn't remember the date and time on a reboot.

    It was crap in other ways too but that was the one that annoyed me the most. Obviously the majority of the price went on the name and not the phone. Shame really, Sony used to be a name that meant quality, now they're just another bunch of MBA-led enshittifiers.

  • Fmovies? Never heard of... wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I'm going to have to buy everything now!!!!!11!1

    Arr.

  • Don't worry guys. As long as project managers think "do the thing ... like the thing ... (waves hands around) ... you know ... (waves hands around some more) ... like the other thing ... but, um, ..., different" constitutes a detailed spec, we're safe.

  • Not more wokism! Next they'll be demanding we stop talking about executing a child!

  • So what do you get when you multiply six by nine?