nerd4sale
@nerd4sale
Old fart.
Used Cobol during the Y2K era.
Wrote reports at university in WordStar 3.3.
Remember when Oracle fitted on 2 floppy disks. In fact, I have them still lying around.
Used Unix before Linux came into being, and still don't like it.
Hate Emacs.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@loopback0 said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Of course!
The correct phrase you should use is "for fuck's sake". -
RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
The good thing about Corona is, that a lot of meetings at work are now cancelled since they are "not essential". Makes me wonder why they were planned in the first place.
But I now finally have time to get things done.
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
More than half (51 per cent) of 11 to 13-year-olds have encountered pornography online
Shocking!
49 per cent of 11 to 13-year-olds have no access to the internet? -
RE: In other news today...
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Mr Bray said: “I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is.”
Uhm, isn't that exactly what UFO means (other than that it is flying)?
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@remi said in Programming Memes Thread:
@PleegWat I'm not a DB guy, but is MongoDB really that bad?
It depends.
On what you use it for.
On if and how you implement your datamodel.
On your level of knowledge of and experience with MongoDB.Reality is that MongoDB is often used by nitwits, to store perfectly relational data in a non-normalized way, whilst totally lacking any knowledge of Mongo (or any other database for that matter). Because raisins.
The same actually as with relational databases.
Bonus word of the day: whilst.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
When I checked it had, properly formatted, a time to completion of "22,287 years, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes".
Did you wait for it to finish, or did you get a cup of coffee first?
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@MrL said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
So they are used in Europe.
When I wrote it I noticed it wasn't exactly correct, but I figured people would know what I meant.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Rhywden It is good to be careful. You don't want something like this to happen, where apparently they hit a gas line while installing a car charger.
The people across the street have a NEST doorcam.
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RE: Unit of Measurement WTF
@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Incidentally this situation is why Napoleon was supposedly short - being 5 foot whatever in French feet is taller than 5 foot whatever in Imperial feet, but it suited the English to spin it as such.
And Napoleon did have two imperial French feet!
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@robo2 said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
or has "trying to fly without fuel" always been an antipattern for jet planes? Don't know, I am not into planes so much..
Since this Developing Story from CNN is already 10 years old: yes.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw the first swallow of the year today.
Was it an African or a European swallow?
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RE: Story Details and Acceptance Criteria
@Jaime said in Story Details and Acceptance Criteria:
First, when you are assigned (or when you pick up) the story, read it and determine if you are clear what the end result should be. If not, send it back to the person responsible, call a meeting, or fix it yourself - whichever is the accepted practice where you work.
So you don't do refinements?
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RE: Delphi 2024
@BernieTheBernie said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024:
Turbo Pascal
Oh ye good old days of the early 1990ies (or was it late 1980ies?).
Definitely 80s.
I used Turbo Pascal on CP/M, so that must have been 1985-ish.
If I remember correctly, initially in version 2 but shortly after I started using it, version 3 came out.Never used it much on PC, because when I went to university in 1987 they had just switched to Modula-2 for the initial programming courses.
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RE: Different countries are different
@Gurth said in Different countries are different:
@Arantor said in Different countries are different:
@Gurth here the standard is two doors between toilet and food preparation or eating areas
Only in houses as-built, though. I once stayed with someone who lived in a suburb of London, on the first floor of a house that had been split into ground- and first-floor apartments. His bathroom was reached by going through the kitchen. I remember commenting that that would never be allowed in the Netherlands, and IIRC he replied that it wouldn’t normally be in the UK either, but in houses split up like that, it wasn’t that strange.
You see it a lot in the Netherlands in older houses, that originally had no indoor plumbing (< 1900 probably).
Quite often a bathroom was added later in an addition built in what used to be the garden, Since these houses often have the kitchen on that side, the bathroom is accessible through the kitchen only.A long time ago I lived in a house like that, built around 1890. Bathroom was added around the middle of the century I think.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
Playing Scrabble on my ZX Spectrum Next, and it occurs to me how well thought out the keyboard controls were (even on the piece of shit keyboard the Spectrum had)
I feel like more software could do with thinking about being actually usable just from a keyboard. And not with “oooo all these arcane shortcuts that are buried in the menu” but like how some software used to work back in the day.
I’m not sure I miss WordPerfect of old exactly but I would rather that nonsense than some of the UI fuckwittery today.
So you do not want arcane shortcuts but somehow this is OK?
Ever work with an APL keyboard? Every character in the letter/number part of the keyboard had a symbol you could shift to, many could overstrike to create additional symbols, and every one of those funky symbols had one meaning as a monadic function and another somewhat related dyadic function.
Oh gawd. It must have been 35 years ago, and I still have nightmares about using APL.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@HardwareGeek I have heard (without proof) that in NL protestants tend to have far better knowledge of the bible than catholics. I also know that when my uncle started going out with a catholic woman she ended up borrowing our children's bible.
True. Traditionally, the Catholic church did not encourage people to read the bible themselves. Doctrine was that the bible would be explained by the church (i.e. the priests) to the people.
This is probably also the reason why long after protestants translated the bible in local languages, the catholic bible was still in Latin.[source: 14 years spent in Catholic schools, which made me the atheist I am today]
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia So rather than "I live in New York" you'd say "I live in 40.723688° N, 73.9987042° W"? Doesn't really roll off the tongue.
But even then you need to establish what the zero-point reference is.
As the zero-point reference, just use where the Big Bang happened.
Then you can confidently say "I live in 00.000000° N, 00.0000000° W", wherever you live! -
RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
The controller was not using correct phraseology. The clearance should have included the words “and hold short of runway 34R”, but did not.
I agree with most of it, except this. "Hold short of runway..." is not required phraseology, unless Japanese RT differs from ICAO standard.
Entering a runway is only allowed when explicitly cleared to do so ("cleared to cross" or "line up").The additional “number one” might have mislead the Coast Guard pilot to think he is the first to use the runway when it just meant he's first at the holding point and there is still landing in front of him. They already said they'll stop saying those (per the AVH article).
The "number one" is indeed very misleading, and I consider this a major factor leading up to the accident.
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RE: Are brand name flashlights worth the price?
@remi said in Are brand name flashlights worth the price?:
The idea isn't bad except that you have to remember which direction is continuous/flashing (you can of course look at the tiny picture on the switch but chances are that when you turn on the light you aren't in the best of lighting conditions!). So it's bad.
If only there were some way to see which setting the light was on.
Maybe they should add a light to indicate the position.
O, wait...