@blakeyrat said in Recommend to me a cellphone (running Android I guess, sigh):
"We've always done it this way" is never a valid reason to do anything.
Says the Microsoft fanboy.
@blakeyrat said in Recommend to me a cellphone (running Android I guess, sigh):
"We've always done it this way" is never a valid reason to do anything.
Says the Microsoft fanboy.
@hungrier said in Recommend to me a cellphone (running Android I guess, sigh):
@blakeyrat It does the same thing as hanging up on an incoming call without picking it up will do on any phone. If you have voicemail, the carrier will send that call to voicemail.
This. As far as I know, your phone can't decide whether or not to send a call to voicemail. It's a feature that's implemented on the carrier's systems, and your phone can't alter their behavior.
@magus said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
Seriously, just go for an M.2
There isn't an M.2 slot on that motherboard.
@ben_lubar Intel and Samsung are usually the best brands. 480 GB is probably more than you need; ~250 GB should be fine. You can get a 250 GB SATA drive that will be noticeably faster for around $150. If you don't mind spending $500, though, go ahead and get a larger PCIE drive.
@cursorkeys Maybe I didn't read carefully enough, but if all you need is to call a parent class's method from the override, why not just use super.method(...)
?
@jazzyjosh said in Version control for asset producers:
@tsaukpaetra Oh, you can merge an Excel file. It won't be fun.
A .xls file or a .xlsx file? A .xlsx file is just a zip of (mostly) text files, so merging shouldn't be any more difficult than it would be with a directory full of text files.
Of course, those text files are mostly XML, which can be a pain in the ass to diff/merge anyway.
My current job was posted on Indeed. My previous job was through a recruiter, though I don't remember which site they found my resume on.
If you have your resume posted on a few different job sites (Dice and LinkedIn were my other major sites) , plenty of recruiters should find you.
@jaloopa said in Stranger Things:
@gurth said in Stranger Things:
Then everyone pauses for the laugh track, standing there as if to say, “See how funny that was?”
Most of them are actually filmed in front of a live audience.
Is that still true? I had thought that practice died out in the 90's.
@heterodox said in Quotes Out of Context:
Me, in the office:
I like the ones with the brown bottoms.Realized afterward it'd make a good game of "Guess the context".
Candy Corn?
Password must contain your Social Security number
@antiquarian said in Stupid human tricks:
@polygeekery said in Stupid human tricks:
which items are winnable
Shouldn't that, at least in theory, be all of them?
There would be a lot of them that are blocked by other items on top of them.
Just read a document that says, "Collected data should be databased."
@tsaukpaetra said in Quotes Out of Context:
@dragnslcr said in Quotes Out of Context:
<DJ_Dichotomy> I'd rather fuck Dragnslcr's brain
Still not sure if he has an account here...
He said he doesn't, which is why I couldn't properly attribute the quote.
@cartman82 said in Porno guy's code:
Me: Then it's late now. At least he seems to be a good salesman.
Sounds like he'd be perfect in that department.
@el_heffe said in But, you can buy as many as you want:
Apparently there have been shortages of high-end video cards because (supposedly) bitcoin miners are buying them all. Micro-Center, who I didn't even know was still in business, has taken a novel approach to the "problem".
Screenshot from their website, 9:30am today:
Confirmed. Though it looks like you can't buy it online, only in the store.
Micro-Center, who I didn't even know was still in business
I didn't even realize there was one near me until a few years ago, but I love it. The prices are generally about the same as Newegg, and I can get stuff right away.
@pjh said in And today, your default download directory is...:
Code:
/** * A null terminated list of root directory entries into which it is prohibited to download data. * Each entry has a leading and trailing slash */ char *download_prohibition_list[] = { "/bin/", "/boot/", "/dev/", "/etc/", "/home/", "/lib/", "/media/", "/mnt/", "/opt/", "/proc/", "/root/", "/sbin/", "/srv/", "/sys/", "/tmp/", /* TODO: Guess what the default of WG_DEF_LOCAL_PATH is? - PJH */ "/usr/", NULL };
So the only directory that's allowed is /var
? Or is it assumed that there's some manually-created directory?
Also, this is a fucking terrible way to restrict where a program can create files. That's why Linux has users, groups, and permissions.
Also also, does the program resolve symlinks before or after checking this list?
@sloosecannon said in @--1 gets a thread:
@1 said in @--1 gets a thread:
@sloosecannon said in @--1 gets a thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in @--1 gets a thread:
@1 said in @--1 gets a thread:
make my own threads!
Eventually though, you'll have to keep track of all of them and start killing them before you die though....
Homicide is not ok, especially against children!
See kids, this is why you don't screw around!
Or your threads will be... Uh... Ok I'm sure there's a pun in there somewhere, but I feel like it's gonna be super edgy
Something something stripping something something.
@raceprouk said in FlightAware starts using
Sadness ensues:
Flash and Silverlight are/used to be things, you know.
Damnit, trigger warning that shit.
@shoreline said in What are the benefits/drawbacks of keeping all the code in one file?:
@dragnslcr said in What are the benefits/drawbacks of keeping all the code in one file?:
@shoreline said in What are the benefits/drawbacks of keeping all the code in one file?:
That sounds suspiciously like sourcery.
FTFY
F*ckin' brits
Wrong.
DW readers.
Bullseye.
@timebandit said in What the fuck, Android:
@raceprouk said in What the fuck, Android:
Settings -> About -> Device Name
I don't have that. Android 7.1.1 on Nexus 6
Works for me on 7.0 on an LG G6.
@shoreline said in What are the benefits/drawbacks of keeping all the code in one file?:
@dkf said in What are the benefits/drawbacks of keeping all the code in one file?:
tightly-defined theme to each file
You mean I should "separate" the "concerns" of code into specific files?
That sounds suspiciously like sourcery.
FTFY
@blakeyrat said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
@arantor I'd be very interested in a discussion of why HTML is not a programming language but plain SQL (as Boomzilla already brought up) is. Because to me those things are in the same category, and yet I wager most people would call the latter a programming language and the former not.
I would hope they wouldn't. Assuming "plain SQL" means just basic queries, then it isn't a programming language. Things like PL/SQL add control flow, which would make "full" SQL a programming language.
@boomzilla said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
That's self evidently a program that the browser is interpreting. It does the same thing every time.
Obviously you haven't used a web browser lately.
@accalia Are you part of the 94%?
@gąska said in I guess it could be worse. It could be phpBB.:
@dragnslcr said in I guess it could be worse. It could be phpBB.:
a new SQL injection vulnerability every week
How do you even do that? Every piece of software has only so many textboxes that need sanitization. Am I missing something?
That's how good1 the phpBB developers were.
1 Unbelievably incompetent
phpBB is pretty legendary. It's probably the biggest source of the belief that PHP is an insecure programming language, since they were averaging a new SQL injection vulnerability every week. In the official PHP support IRC channel, we had a macro for telling people that we couldn't help them with it.
@mrguyorama said
I almost never go too fast too early
...
well I am fucking SOMETHING
@thebread I hope this thread is giving you good ideas for interview questions.
@masonwheeler said in Recommendations for interview questions:
@accalia said in Recommendations for interview questions:
You mean i shouldn't ask you as a job applicant to use a whiteboard to design a system, such as you would do in a meeting with your coworkers when you're spitballing solutions during the early phases of problem solving as a way to figure out how you approach problem solving?
There's a massive assumption in there that is completely incorrect. Never in my entire career have I done that. No one's ever even suggested it as an idea of something we would want to do.
imma ask you the question because i want to see you think.
now if i was asking you to write code that would be a different issue, but no. i'm asking you to scratch boxes and a couple of labels and some arrows to illustrate a thought process in a way you would actually do in the course of your actual jorb.
I don't draw boxes and arrows in my actual job. (Do you? Seriously?) I work out the problem, sometimes opening up Notepad to jot down a few ideas in order to keep things straight or help analyze ideas. Then I pull up an editor and start coding, compiling and running along the way to double-check the validity of those ideas, and adjust as necessary.
This is an excellent example of the difference between a software engineer and a programmer.
@masonwheeler said in The death of Ruby?:
@dragnslcr said in The death of Ruby?:
@antiquarian said in The death of Ruby?:
data Cowbell a = NeedsMoreCowbell | HazCowbell a cowbell :: b -> (a -> b) -> Cowbell a -> b cowbell n f NeedsMoreCowbell = n cowbell n f (HazCowbell x) = f x instance Functor Cowbell where fmap f NeedsMoreCowbell = NeedsMoreCowbell fmap f (HazCowbell x) = HazCowbell (f x) instance Monad Cowbell where (HazCowbell x) >>= k = k x NeedsMoreCowbell >>= k = NeedsMoreCowbell return = HazCowbell fail s = NeedsMoreCowbell
You do have to give the Ruby creators credit - it takes a lot of planning and effort to design a language that's even more unreadable than Perl.
Umm... you do know that's not Ruby, don't you? It's Haskell.
Oh.
Ruby is actually fairly easy to read. (It has a multitude of
s in other areas, but readability is pretty decent, as these things go.)
No, Ruby is still about as unreadable as Perl. Last time I looked at it, they still insisted on using symbols for most of the syntax.
@antiquarian said in The death of Ruby?:
data Cowbell a = NeedsMoreCowbell | HazCowbell a cowbell :: b -> (a -> b) -> Cowbell a -> b cowbell n f NeedsMoreCowbell = n cowbell n f (HazCowbell x) = f x instance Functor Cowbell where fmap f NeedsMoreCowbell = NeedsMoreCowbell fmap f (HazCowbell x) = HazCowbell (f x) instance Monad Cowbell where (HazCowbell x) >>= k = k x NeedsMoreCowbell >>= k = NeedsMoreCowbell return = HazCowbell fail s = NeedsMoreCowbell
You do have to give the Ruby creators credit - it takes a lot of planning and effort to design a language that's even more unreadable than Perl.
@Boner said
shame i learnt that after I lost my job as a mohel
@benjamin-hall said in VAT fraud?:
@dragnslcr Can't secede from a county. All land in a state is part of one county or another. Except for those weird places where (some) cities are administrative units with equivalent status to counties. Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City are the only three such I can find.
They can still try. They'll have just as much success as they will trying to secede from their city.
I was going to suggest moving to Maine and buying some land in an Unorganized Territory (i.e. areas with no municipal government), but it turns out that the state does collect property taxes on land there.
@benjamin-hall said in VAT fraud?:
@dragnslcr Although many (most?) property taxes are at the county level, and the entire State is part of a county (by definition). Sometimes cities have additional property taxes, but it's usually a county thing. Except when it's not...taxes are complicated.
In which case they can try seceding from the county, too.
I think I've mentioned before how the only two states that I've lived in only have property taxes at the city/town level, so I apologize for any times that I forget that other states have county-level property taxes.
@djls45 said in VAT fraud?:
The commercial aspect of it is the use of government services (land recorder, assessor, public maintenance services, etc.) to do certain things with the property. "Residential" is just one of these use classifications for property. If you get your land deregistered and reclassified as private property instead of any of the "commercial" designations, then you can't use the government services (unless possibly by directly paying for them yourself), but you also won't need to pay the property tax. More properly, it probably should be called a property use tax.
So what you're saying is that if you take your property and secede from the city, then you don't have to pay property taxes to the city, and in exchange you no longer get any services provided by the city. I will agree with you on that, but good luck getting your state to approve your secession.
@boomzilla said in VAT fraud?:
@powerlord said in VAT fraud?:
I don't think it's been stated yet, but iirc the only tax that the Federal government itself collects is Income Tax.
That's most definitely not what I recall. FICA, Medicare
Aren't both of those based on income?
excise taxes, tarrifs.
Excises and tariffs (duties) are explicitly listed in the Constitution.
@sloosecannon said in How long does a smartphone last?:
Huh.
I've got a Nexus 4 that's still running strong (albeit with terrible battery life) - or at least as strong as you'd expect from a phone that old. For normal (emergency backup phone) use it works pretty well though...
I just replaced my Nexus 4. The battery life was getting bad, and it would crash or reboot several times per day.
As far as I know, all of the Ubuntu installation discs are hybrid ISOs, so there's no need to use utilities like UnetBootin. Just use dd
to copy the disc image to the USB drive.
@djls45 said in VAT fraud?:
AIUI, states cannot write laws that contradict the federal constitution; some that have tried were struck down by the Supreme Court.
States cannot write laws that directly contradict certain parts of the US Constitution, mostly (entirely?) the amendments that protect the rights of individuals (speech, religion, due process, equal protection, etc.). Despite what a few idiots like to claim, taxation is not considered a violation of individual rights, and the Constitution doesn't say anything about how states can collect taxes (unless it was something blatantly discriminatory, like having higher income tax rates for people of specific races or religions).
You're going to have to provide some citations for the idea that property taxes are unconstitutional.
@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
And it's not like the United States population is doing a very good job of "stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people".
Referring to what exactly?
To the fact that the United States is effectively ruled by a small, wealthy class of individuals whose grandparents, while perhaps not being guilty of first-degree murder, for the most part earned their money by exploiting large numbers of people and causing a large number of deaths.
@djls45 said in VAT fraud?:
@blakeyrat said in VAT fraud?:
@djls45 said in VAT fraud?:
Property tax can only be assessed on commercial property, not private property,
What? Where? Certainly not in Washington State.
Everywhere that is called the United States of America. It's built into the Constitution.
Are you talking specifically about the federal government? The Constitution certainly doesn't limit how states can collect taxes.
@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Don't you want to, just once in your goddamned British-ass lifetime, want to stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people?
They did, which is why they now have a Parliament making the laws. The British royal family is rich, but they aren't any more powerful than any other family with that amount of money. The British monarch gets to keep their governmental authority only as long as they don't use it.
And it's not like the United States population is doing a very good job of "stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people".
@lolwhat said in VAT fraud?:
Property tax bills actually come from counties, generally.
How true is that? I've only lived in two states, but in both of them, property taxes went to the city/town. To be honest, I don't actually know who pays for the sheriffs' offices, since I haven't seen any county-level taxes in either of the states.
@powerlord said in VAT fraud?:
@kt_ To my knowledge, only charitable organizations and churches are exempt from sales tax in the US and that may vary from state to state. Other than that, you pay full sales tax.
I think some other not-for-profit organizations are also exempt. It's come up when I've bought stuff for a university student group.