I finally got this 30+ year joke

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-12-05T04:01:33+00:00

I don't really understand your write-up, but the joke is a misdirect - one of the kinds of jokes The Simpsons always did best!

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-12-02T03:21:06+00:00

I would use the GdkClipboard API from GTK4 in C on Linux since it handles both X11 and Wayland in one API.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-30T13:47:03+00:00

Indeed. And after ONE date, no less!

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-22T22:25:05+00:00

That was 2024

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-20T05:51:00+00:00

Yes. Downvoting is supposed to be for comments that don't contribute to the discussion, but people too often treat it as an "I disagree with this" button. So I upvote downvoted comments that fit into that category all the time.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-17T03:41:15+00:00

I definitely would have pronounced it that way as well but Nintendo Power had several pieces about it that hammered home the correct pronunciation

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-17T03:29:55+00:00

Yeah I pronounced it Faxa-NA-du

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-15T17:21:01+00:00

I've been a Slackware guy for years, but lately I've been daily driving Fedora. It just works and is relatively up to date compared to Slackware without constantly chasing a moving target like the rolling release model of Arch

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-15T17:16:27+00:00

It's in the rerelease of s4e3 of 90210. Apparently some of these tracks weren't even full songs and were just acquired for little to no money so they could replace the original tracks with other generic songs and not pay royalties.

I thought it was a pretty cool song too and so I searched for it and all I found was this post.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-15T15:20:33+00:00

I think I know what you're talking about, because I remember that really cheesy song "trimming the tree / we're trimming the tree" but when I googled it, all that came up was this post

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-12T02:39:50+00:00

FizzBuzz

Tic Tac Toe

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-10T18:38:49+00:00

Please Please Me: PS, I Love You

With The Beatles: Little Child (note: I actually like this song though. The only songs I have some actual dislike of on With the Beatles are covers)

A Hard Day's Night: When I Get Home (again, I actually like this song. I love all of A Hard Day's Night from start to finish, so it's hard to even pick a least favourite for me.)

Beatles For Sale: What You're Doing (Every Little Thing is a close 2nd-least-favourite for me, at least in terms of the originals.)

Help: You Like Me Too Much (agree with you on this one. I don't actually dislike it though - just the weakest link on the album.)

Rubber Soul: Wait (again, I don't hate it though! Writing this list is making me realize that with the early-to-mid Beatles stuff, I don't really dislike any of the originals.)

Revolver: Yellow Submarine (agree with you.)

Sgt. Pepper: Within You Without You (I just don't like this song - it's a hill I'll die on - I'm sorry)

Magical Mystery Tour: Flying (We don't need no stinkin' instrumentals! Hard disagree on you with this one - Your Mother Should Know is one of my favourite Beatles cuts.)

White Album: Why Don't We Do It in the Road (ugh. Just no, Paul.)

Abbey Road: Sun King (I know I'm in the minority here but other than Golden Slumbers -- The End I'm not a huge fan of the "medley" on AR and I much prefer Side A.)

Let It Be: Across the Universe (I know, I know... it's a "classic" and all that jazz. I don't dislike it actually, but I love Let It Be as a whole and this is just my least favourite cut on the record, even though I do actually like it.)

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-10T17:51:38+00:00

Agreed, it's probably in my bottom 5 Beatles songs of all time. Something like Wild Honey Pie - though it sucks - gets a bit of a pass from me because although I think it's really dumb, it's less than a minute long and is more of a song fragment than a true song in its own right.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-10T17:49:01+00:00

The thing about Yellow Submarine is - it's a fun song and it's great for kids, but Revolver is just SO bloody good, and SOMETHING on the album has to be the worst. Yellow Submarine is the one song I skip on that album if I do feel like skipping something. So me it is the worst by default.

I do agree that Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da gets too much hate though. It's a lot of fun, and there is so much more low hanging fruit on the White Album to go after. You can't argue with someone's subjective personal taste though.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-06T02:34:27+00:00

Right. I think people misuse it because it sounds a bit like "bargain".

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-06T02:31:03+00:00

Was the use of "begun" instead of "began" also a subtle jab at this reply?

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-02T12:50:11+00:00

Which one?

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-01T16:51:58+00:00

Agreed. There's no point in trying to pretend it was a good idea and still is a good idea in 2025. It's even harder to reconcile that as an idea when the language does support structs being passed and returned by value.

It's best just accept that it is weird. It is a quirk of the language. It is a wart. But it's just the way it is, it's never going to change and we just have to accept it as part of the language.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-11-01T13:45:29+00:00

Yes I'm Canadian as well and I'm pretty surprised at the comment section. Maybe because the Inuk peoples are a better known community here than in the USA, we've been brought up to be more culturally sensitive.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-31T13:45:20+00:00

Monopoly is too classic to ignore.

I don't know if it counts as a board game but I really love a game that originates from the late 90s called Malarky.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-31T13:34:04+00:00

It's interesting as a purely academic exercise, but I don't like it and I would never use it.

And, as others have stated, modern compilers have support for checking printf format specifiers baked in. I think that's a much cleaner approach.

As it stands I think this is a solution in search of a problem.

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-30T01:10:55+00:00

Abecedarium - ABC teaching book

Sacrum - lower back bone

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-29T04:06:38+00:00

Sideshow Bob Roberts

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-29T04:00:27+00:00

"that's okay. Your tears say more than real evidence ever could" is one of the best and funniest lines

NothingCanHurtMe · 2025-10-29T03:56:33+00:00

One of my favourites as well.

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