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  • As long as it Just Writes(TM) I don't care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don't want to try writing only to find it's dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I've left the lid off then that's my bad, but if I haven't then it should just flipping work.

  • Depends where you're going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we've even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

    But if you're going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can't possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it's probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

  • Related: a small room that "doesn't have enough room to swing a cat".

  • I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

    I've been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

    But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It's all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa'uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they've ever seen the surface.

    I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don't know C++.

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  • Yes of course that'd be their primary source. But if that doesn't cover all the payouts then it'll lead to a general increase in insurance premiums for everyone.

  • When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error "ORA-00000 normal successful completion" and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.

    I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.

  • Also Windows: "Ask your network administrator for access."
    Me: "Well I'm my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself"?
    Windows: "Enter network username and password."
    Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I'll bung them on an external disk.

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  • Well, no, it's all of us, because of how insurance works. Payouts go up, premiums go up. As long as the number of destroyed Teslas is a drop in the ocean we won't notice, but lots of companies love a good excuse to put prices up and this is just handing them a gold plated excuse on a silver platter.

  • Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can't use cli then by definition you're a shit programmer.

    Of course if you simply don't want to use cli that's a different matter.

  • Sounds like somebody's never had to visit Winchester.

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  • No, bangs is a hairstyle. Also "bangs maid" sounds like the third person singular. If you have multiple bangmaids, that would be the correct plural. For the most part the plural form is found by sticking an s on the end.

  • It was definitely an awesome show but I hated the interlaced format. Every time they skipped from one section to the next they had to reintroduce it and give a "we got this far" segment; it always felt like the show was at least twice as long as it needed to be.

    It'd have been so much better (for me at least) if they just focussed on one thing at a time from start to end, especially when one of the experiments was fairly gruesome exploding bits of dead pig or whatever, you could skip over that in its entirety.

    But maybe the show was aimed at people with the attention span of a ferret.

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  • Ohh I thought it was something to do with sexy underwear. This actually makes a lot more sense.

  • (Of course, I realise arguing with an American about guns is a fool's errand but sometime you've got to try.)

    OK so hypothetically let's suppose a right-wing cop has decided to add you to his list of murdered innocent civilians, has parked his car on the boundary of your house and is walking towards you.

    At what point exactly do you get your gun out and shoot first? Spell it out please, I'd really like to understand how this plays out.

    Please include the response of his partner who is still in the car, what that partner radios back to base, and describe the multiple responses of those who will now respond to the reports of a cop-killer. Explain how you think the resulting siege will play out and describe exactly how you win this scenario (where "win" is defined in terms of you living and not going to jail).

  • I first encountered it in Hofstadter's incredible book.