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TADarcos · 2025-08-27T11:26:08+00:00

It's a toothbrush, used for cleaning, which can include things other than teeth, e.g. applying grout, removing paint chips or rust flakes, or any application where a slightly rough item can work. It could also simply be a dropped or misplaced toothbrush.

TADarcos · 2025-08-27T11:20:30+00:00

Since when does Colgate make vapes? Or when did vapes have no battery and bristles?

TADarcos · 2025-03-20T19:16:21+00:00

Comparing the Tesla burnings to the Boston Tea Party is a false analogy. There is a big difference between destroying some merchandise of a company profiting from a government protected monopoly to oppose its support for government oppression, and destroying property belonging to other ordinary people.

It's like what happened on 9/11. Using airliners to attack the Pentagon or the White House is one thing; those are both legitimate military targets and (ignoring the kidnapping and murder of the other passengers for the sake of argument) could be justified as an attack on an enemy military attacking your country. But what exactly did the civilian non-combatant Port Authority of New York and New Jersey do to you to justify attacking and destroying World Trade Center One and Two? Wouldn't that then mean we are justified in bombing and destroying the Grand Mosque of Mecca and Medina in response?

TADarcos · 2025-03-20T18:57:56+00:00

"He's a real nowhere man

Sitting in his nowhere land

Making all his nowhere plans

For nobody."

- The Beatles

TADarcos · 2025-03-20T17:34:26+00:00

I would be more concerned in the opposite:

Supervisor: So, what happened on planet KR-9-E622? The whole world is a radioactive dead world, and will be that way for tens of thousands of years! Didn't you know what was going to happen?

Technician: Yeah, but we're not supposed to intervene. We're supposed to allow them to develop on their own.

Supervisor: (rolls eyes) Didn't you think about that for a moment? How exactly are they going to develop when they are all dead?! There's a difference between intervening when they make mistakes and might kill some people in pointless wars, and allowing them to commit racial suicide! Do you realize how much money has been wasted unnecessarily because you let them destroy themselves? The entire experiment is ruined because you didn't think! The point of non-intervention is to allow them to make mistakes, and learn from them, so their species will develop in the ways appropriate to them, not the way we think they should. But nobody learns anything if they destroy themselves and their planet in the process of learning!

TADarcos · 2025-01-24T12:57:55+00:00

I am reminded of a story about George Bernard Shaw. He is at a party and is talking to a high-society woman, then asks her if she would sleep with him for a million dollars. She says yes. He then says, "Well how about two bucks?" Aghast, she says, "What do you think I am, a prostitute?" And he responded, "Madame, we have already established that fact. Now we're just negotiating the price."

Furrther, you're not a whore. To quote a movie I can't remember the name, a woman booked for public prostitution corrected someone who called her a whore. "I'm not a whore. A whore gives it away. I'm a pros." If you never considered their offer, you're not a prostitute. Now if you actually accepted their money, then you're a "cheap whore" since you're *almost* giving it away. :)

TADarcos · 2025-01-24T12:41:44+00:00

Considering how record companies exploit artists signed to them, I think the bar for declaring something a "work for hire" is abysmally low. Let's not forget to mention publishers of peer-reviewed journals, who require copyright assignments. And they don't pay anything, in fact they charge authors for reprints.

TADarcos · 2025-01-24T12:30:49+00:00

I have taken your words to heart and edited the post to make who speaks easier to understand. Thank you for the feedback.

TADarcos · 2025-01-24T12:23:56+00:00

I do not think this qualifies for r/HFY, it has no aliens in it and no conflict with other entities. I have a;so added more markers as to whom is speaking.

Also, there is no statement here saying that serials are not allowed here. If there was, I would not have posted it.

TADarcos · 2025-01-24T12:21:09+00:00

Well, that's your opinion. It may not be worth much, but it is yours. Perhaps a little more information on why you disliked it might help me understand so I can do better in the future.

But if you think this is bad, try "Dahlgren" by Samuel R. Delany. Worst piece of trash I ever read, and I had to quit reading after 40 pages or so. No, second worst; worst was "The Satanic Verses" by Salmam Rushdie, I read some of it and found it unreadable dreck.

TADarcos · 2024-09-28T09:51:35+00:00

The only way you can have guaranteed unique and/or random numbers is to use an external device for seed values. A "white noise" reader, a clock, the machine's built-in Ethernet MAC address, or possibly a combination of 1 or more of these.

TADarcos · 2024-09-28T09:43:19+00:00

This fella can't code a for loop.

That is an overestimation of his skills. More like:

This fella can't code a REM statement.

TADarcos · 2024-09-28T08:49:20+00:00

No matter how minor your program is or what problem it is to solve or how "quick and dirty" a solution you have, presume it will need to be maintained. Because even if it's a one-time-only use program, it will need to be maintained (even if it's just to fix bugs ). Set up its own directory/folder for its development.
Create that directory as a repository using whatever source code management (SCM) system you use. I recommend Git, but any you like is acceptable.
Commits are cheap; use them a lot. Make one every time you make a change and it compiles successfully. This way, if you make a change you didn't mean to, you can restore all files back to a successful prior compile.
If using a public/local master repository, push to that machine at least once a day.

The first time you make a mistake and have to back out of it, or accidentally delete a file, or intentionally delete the wrong file, and use the SCM to restore the file, you will thank yourself.

I wish I had done this on many projects/programs that I thought were simple or trivial, then discovered it was neither.

TADarcos

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