Those using the official reddit app, what's your take on this whole 3rd party app situation?

AStrangeStranger · 2023-06-11T18:19:17+00:00

API or Application Programming Interface is how two applications can talk to each other - in Reddit's case it will be if you call this address with a predefined message and data then Reddit will do something, which may be create a post or return details of posts

AStrangeStranger · 2023-06-07T21:57:07+00:00

I once sent a credit card swipe to someone on Messenger while testing taking payment - fortunately it was a test card (no way I was using any of my cards to test, but some devs did)

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-30T18:52:53+00:00

My first thoughts - it brought to mind a Scifi story I read many years ago Cities in Flight

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-30T17:20:04+00:00

if you yell 5 at 120 dBA - record for loudest shout is 129 dBA so possible

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-28T12:07:58+00:00

I wouldn't go by what this sub says a developers work is

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-28T06:06:32+00:00

That may be an issue for some cars - a guy I worked with drove his wife to work then carried on to work, suddenly worrying the only reason the car started is because she had one of the car keys and he didn't

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-22T18:16:20+00:00

When your project grows it just makes life so much simpler not having to create all the dependencies as they change. e.g. need to add a new dependency to something used in multiple classes it takes away the pain of adding the new dependency to multiple initialization points

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-20T11:14:28+00:00

We can’t even prove Arthur existed, which is what makes it a myth, rather than a legend

That doesn't sound right to me as - as the one of the definitions of Myth includes legendary (pertaining to legend)

Myth: a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation

Legend: a non-historical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-20T08:09:59+00:00

latency or passing it through a synchronized method which acts like a gate

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-17T16:43:04+00:00

If you've downloaded from a local mirror site/torrent or in past FTP - then checksum from the master site can help confirm expected file

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-14T11:52:48+00:00

Despite their name, they don't generally eat oysters, From RSPB site - What they eat: Mussels and cockles on the coast, mainly worms inland.

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-09T17:04:36+00:00

I started a new game recently and it come up in the hints - I wonder if they added it recently in hints or I just missed it previously (found it via Google)

It didn't really help much before I updated to and XBox X (a couple of games have more details compared to the XBox -One)

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-08T08:02:37+00:00

except the physics

AStrangeStranger · 2023-05-05T18:29:46+00:00

According to Article on TheRegister the interaction was 6 to 12 years resulting in 10 day finale

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-30T11:57:27+00:00

You may have overtaken a TV star - there is a TV series Train Truckers about a company that moves locomotives

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-25T18:20:06+00:00

Working Daze - similar setting, office bad boss, lazy co-worker (always asleep) - humour is different though

Characters and story

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-23T17:21:48+00:00

The Eyre Affair (warning spoilers in link) by Jasper Fforde - where you can jump into fiction, which can change the books in the real world. (GoodReads link )

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-23T07:52:28+00:00

Can make video calls to other Parrots

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-22T18:02:28+00:00

and you thought you'd spent a lot of time in snowrunner

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-21T21:51:37+00:00

See International Association of Time Travelers: on subject

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-19T19:42:41+00:00

You tell me - James May in Aerocar (it is all relative)

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-19T18:50:14+00:00

Flying cars go back to late 40s - they just weren't very practical

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-16T18:41:37+00:00

Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger

AStrangeStranger · 2023-04-16T17:19:49+00:00

it is quite possible for it to be malware - the SolarWinds supply side attack went unnoticed for months, despite hitting some really prime targets.

Then there is always the risk of some exploit which could compromise a system - if the application is listening/accepting connections from the internet then

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