There used to be a scary logo animation for National Amusements that used to scare me as a child. It gives me the creeps now still.

It was all neon and then there would be a creepy screen to show you where the exits were.

https://youtu.be/xkuWSpljM5g And https://youtu.be/TK3rSOrE6L0

(Not directly related but this reminded me of it.)

For something end-user facing: I could understand this argument.

In this case they were more or less just calling a C function that had an unsigned long long as the parameter they were setting negative.

The whole ‘bug’ was that the other side of the function call was seeing a positive number no matter what.

The real situation was a bit more complicated, but that’s the gist.

I once had a QA engineer file a bug saying they couldn’t do negative testing since negative numbers were converted to positive.

The function took an unsigned integer. Took a lot of explaining to get them to understand that negative testing isn’t necessarily negative numbers.

This could have easily been a Flintstones episode.

What’s the start button? Every time I say click: they don’t know if it’s left or right.

Bottom left made me miss Kmart

99/100 people will not care. I’m one of them.

For that 1/100: sure it’s infuriating but probably more than mildly.

I’ve never had a case where running that fixed anything. I get it makes sense to verify system integrity but I’m guessing the OS already does that on its own once in a while.

Boneyard Match

If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he’s ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.

Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.

Through the magic of make, you can write code that changes if statements to while loops then changes it back after compilation passes or fails.

I only give good advice.

It’s one of those things that are pretty annoying. Especially because you often need to login before starting the chat. The login should have authenticated me already.

Also in case anyone wonders they didn’t reply after 20 minutes so I gave up.

I’m a fan of those foot things that exist in some places now to pull the door open. Though every time I use one, I fear for a moment that if someone enters the bathroom at the same time I’m leaving, I’ll fall on my face.

It’s been too many years since I’ve played on a tire swing.

I would have thought the something is wrong category would catch all here.

Maybe there should be a miscategorized option or similar.

Three dots in the corner. Click to report the job, pick the category it falls into.

Believe it or not: people do eventually see reports at some level.

Source: in an unofficial capacity: me

The fact that they changed the name to Azure Linux still upsets me. I get upset easily.

We use it at work. Seems mostly fine and similar enough to old CentOS and RHEL.

Warning: talking out of my butt a bit so take with a grain of salt.

I wonder if you could look at micropython. You could implement a unix like world on top of micropython then use micropython as the layer where a normal os would be.

It would be miserable and likely impossible to be fully unix compliant but could be a fun thing to play with. I would be amazed if it ever somehow could run native unix binaries.

Can confirm this type of thing. Under the Microsoft umbrella stuff doesn’t get special treatment or exemptions from rate limits.

Instead we make multiple accounts and randomly pick ones to use for various api calls. We waste time fighting with secondary rate limits for them as well as guess how to avoid them.

I’ve always wanted to meet that 1 out of the 10 who don’t. Probably would be interesting to have a beer with.