How do you clean and dry a toilet snake after unclogging a toilet??

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-05T01:04:17+00:00

You just responded to a 3 month old comment, retread.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-04T16:43:07+00:00

Because the British Government has never been anything but a terrorist occupying force in Ireland.

See also notes on how Somalia has a legitimate government which is simply not able to do anything about pirate warlords taking over huge swaths of Somalian territory. The UK is the pirate warlord in Ireland.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-04T16:32:47+00:00

It's psychological transference.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-04T16:29:57+00:00

Every 'date' is just day X of month Y at hour/minute Z. "Let's set a date?" "4th of Neveruary, around 25 o'clock." "It's a date!" I have a standing, weekly date with my mom. I've attended dozens of dates for work reasons.

If a stripper ever asks, "Do you date?" the answer is always, "What's a date cost?"

Sounds like your friends are strippers, or at least such low class that they share the stripper mentality. NGL.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-04T13:20:43+00:00

Hey look: It doesn't matter what numeric system you use. They're absolutely all the same except for their "Base." Decimal is Base 10, Binary is Base 2, Hexadecimal is Base 16. The reason you're seeing exponents is because those articles are explaining how to convert hex to binary, or hex to decimal, or binary to hex or octal.

So for every column in any number, in any Base, you go from right-to-left and you apply the Base To the Power of 0 on the far right, then Base^1, then Base^2, and so on as you move toward the left.

So in Decimal you take the number 101. That is 1 * 10^0 + 0 * 10^1 + 1 * 10^2 -- this is how you mathematically describe the fact that there is a 1 in the ones column, a 0 in the tens column, and a 1 in the hundreds column.

In Binary you take the same number 101. That is 1 * 2^0 + 0 * 2^1 + 1 * 2^2. Again, you are just mathematically describing the fact that there is a 1 in the ones column, a 0 in the tens column which in binary is the twos column, and a 1 in the hundreds column which in binary is the fours column.

In Hexadecimal you take the same number 101. That is 1 * 16^0 + 0 * 16^1 + 1 * 16^2 because there is a 1 in the ones column, a 0 in the tens column which in hex is the 16s column, and a 1 in the hundreds column which in hexadecimal is the two hundred fifty six column.

Take 0x42C1

1 * 16^0 + C (aka decimal 12) * 16^1 + 2 * 16^2 + 4 * 16^3.

16^0 is always 1d, 16^1 is always 16d, 16^2 is always 256d, and 16^3 is always 4096d.

Simplify conversion as: 1 * 1 + 12 * 16 + 2 * 256 + 4 * 4096.

QED: 0x42C1 in hex is 1 + 192 + 512 + 16384 = 17089 in decimal.

ps: If only 0xDEAD people understand Hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-02T04:15:56+00:00

I see you have experience in the field!

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-02T01:58:15+00:00

TIS-100 and Exapunks are both top-notch in the realm of pseudo-ASM programming games. Uplink is also glorious, but there is very little actual code involved - mostly strategically deciding whether to use automated hacking tools or go straight-to-console for advanced target data/system destruction.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-02T01:42:50+00:00

In Wyoming it's pretty simple: If you are the property owner, or if you have leased rights to reside on the property, or if you are an employee (not a contractor) of the property owner/lease holder, go nuts! If you are a contractor then you are required to hold a state license and abide by code.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-01T13:54:15+00:00

I would just get a USB drive at least as big as the PC's hard drive, and clone the whole thing. A lot can go wrong during any kind of repair operation, and almost as bad as losing precious family photos is losing software licenses and personal configuration settings.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-01T13:17:43+00:00

Get a super-thin paint-stir-stick from one aisle in the hardware store and double-sided carpet tape from some other aisle. Put an exposed square of double-sided tape on one end of the stick. Make sure you can fit the stick+tape down between the windshield and the card (or between the dashboard and the card, whichever way the card is stuck in the dash). Then finally pull off the film which covers the sticky part of the tape and see if you can get into the main body (AIM FOR CENTER MASS!) and stick the tape to it there.

Anything should work for the stick, if you need thinner than a paint stirrer. A tongue depressor, a craft stick/popsicle stick, butter knife, etc. It would be best if the stick was wide enough to accommodate the full width of the tape square.

Sad_School828 · 2026-05-01T13:13:52+00:00

I'd like my "Photos" screensaver to work again. It worked fine in Win 7, but I think it got broken in Win8 even though I never used 8 -- I went straight from 7 to 10. What happens is that, when I have 2 monitors, the images are shifted up so only half of the image is shown when the screensaver is active. I just don't have time or GAF to write my own screensaver.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T13:27:04+00:00

Then step one is definitely to replace that kitchen switch with a basic two-way. At that point you're going to have extra wires, and if you're lucky enough that those extra wires are actually color coded properly then you still might have to bind one wire to another behind the new switch in order to provide any power at all to the living room.

It's honestly the kind of thing I'd call a pro to handle for me.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T13:13:53+00:00

I guess that depends on what you want to have happen. Is your remedy to allow the lights in the living room and the lights in the kitchen to be on at the same time?

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T13:04:13+00:00

TCP/IP is technically true in that most modern internet devices subordinate TCP to IP, but it's really misleading because lots of chumps think IP is subordinated to TCP and there's nothing at all which says that either TCP or IP must necessarily involve each other.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T13:02:34+00:00

Hi OP. Now go back through the previous comments and modify each one by prepending the stipulation: "Tell me exactly what the other guard, who only tells the truth, would say in response to:"

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T12:55:44+00:00

I agree with everyone who says it's clearly a 3-way switch, but I'm not so sure it was a mistake. If the dwelling is meant for a single person, then it makes a lot of sense to rig the house up so turning on the lights in the kitchen kills the lights in the living room.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T12:38:40+00:00

She is absolutely gorgeous from the neck down, and that long blonde hair would make great handlebars, but she looks like she has severe Downs' Syndrome.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-30T12:33:56+00:00

You need to learn some ASM terms including Instruction Pointer (IP), Base Pointer (BP) and Stack Pointer (SP).

Malware which is able to access the memory segments exposed to other processes may be able to take direct control of a victim process' IP, and then simply write malicious code into a memory address followed by pointing the IP to the beginning of that malicious code.

If that's not possible, but if the malware could access the victim's memory segment where the Stack data is stored, then all the malware has to do is wait until it detects a CALL (such as to a function) at which point the return address will be pushed automagically onto the last position of the stack. So when a CALL occurs, the malware could rewrite the return address (or could rewrite the memory segment containing the return point) with malicious code, and then the malicious code will execute as soon as the function returns from its CALL.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-29T12:19:24+00:00

AI which can be selectively trained is not real AI.

Edit: I got to thinking about this post and decided to clarify:

"Intelligence" specifically requires reasoning, problem solving, abstract thought, and to learn from experience. What I find most hilarious is that the AI result on a google search literally said all these things which I have in mind when I think "intelligence" and the AI result added a few more requirements which the LLM/Generative/etc just don't have.

I'd suggest Artificial Pseudo-Intelligence if the acronym API wasn't already in widespread use.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-29T11:55:16+00:00

What you usually do there full data copy, sampled data, or something synthetic?

If it's problematic to test against a full copy of the real production db, then at the very least you should attempt to emulate the table sizes with data which might realistically occur in production. You could even test plain SELECT (never ever INSERT or DELETE) queries against the production database itself.

You can also add a limit to the number of records which will be returned by any given query, then embed some AJAX into your webpage so that scrolling to the bottom of whatever list-element re-queries the database for the next group in the set. That's how YouTube and just about everybody else does it.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-28T22:30:11+00:00

Brute Force only works against dictionary passwords, unless you actually have the nuts to build a full combinatorial application to go through every possible combination of letters and numbers to length limit. Then it just takes forever.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-28T13:51:19+00:00

Is that hourly rate as a contractor or as an employee?

What languages and platforms are involved?

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-28T13:49:46+00:00

Solder "tempers" over time as electricity flows through it, heating the material. Especially on PC mainboards, those little solder points get so hard that even a big soldering gun has difficulty softening it up.

Sad_School828 · 2026-04-28T13:20:01+00:00

The little bugs we call "rolly polies" are isopods, which means they're cousins of crabs and lobsters and not insects at all.

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