Hey now, that malware has paid to be the top result! Probably using the proceeds scammed out of somebody who downloaded it.

Only the first time you visit in a while though.

I think it’s taking you away to a login page, logging you in, then bringing you back.

I can see the point if you were going to ask or answer a question, but 99% of the time you just want to see how somebody else didn’t get their problem solved by some random Indian guy who people assume works for Microsoft, who think the solution to everything is running “sfc /scannow” which has replaced chkdsk as the command most likely to take a long time, do nothing, and make the question asker go away without a solution to their problem.

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.

I was thinking it was in the registry somewhere, so I could write a program that moved it about every few hours to prevent a restart.

However, I can’t find it. Presumably to stop me doing exactly that.

What we were promised:

Content in one HTML document.

Styles in other CSS, able to apply any to completely alter the layout of the document.

What we got:

<div class=“mt mid flex lt-8 no-margin up-1”>

But if you go to another site, Google will have to pay them when they show you adverts!

Google Currents

They probably just renamed it to Google Raisins.

I watched some Gal Gadot movie recently, where she got on a motorbike in the far north of Iceland (Isafjordur airport) and rode to Reykjavik opera house in a matter of minutes. I’d consider both of these places to be somewhat landmarks as well.

But it didn’t ruin it for me because it was terrible long before that. Arguably at the script and casting stages.

Support for int64s out of the box and without jumping through hoops would be nice.

Is that actually official campaign stuff?

At least some of that looks like spam designed to get “donations” that they just keep. Saw plenty of that around COVID.

I like Sublime Text for this.

Watching supposedly technical people use Excel to mangle batch SQL statements together makes me cry.

Everyone knows you should only have a double space after a full stop, so your computer knows it’s the end of a sentence.

Automated numberplate recognition systems have spoilt so much fun.

This is some very short sighted thinking.

Caps attached to the bottles is very important to the recycling industry, so they can be more cheaply and efficiently shipped to China and thrown into the sea.

Yeah, it’s all on Twitter and Facebook.

Why hang out in the run down Nazi bar when the big chain bars are all accepting Nazis now?

0 == []
>> true

"0" == []
>> false

0 == "0"
>> true

Some automatic conversion is fine.

a=3+0.2

print(“Hello {name}. You are {age} years old”)

That kind of thing. But the principle of least surprise definitely applies. If you get to the point where you’re adding two booleans and a string, I feel like the language should at least say something. At least until the technology exists for it to physically reach out of your screen and slap you.

That doesn’t mean it’s not higher level than other languages from more recent times.

Pretty much most of the screenshots I get these days are a photo of somebody’s screen taken on a phone.

Makes me long for retirement or at least a giant solar flare.

I wouldn’t mind so much if they all just used the same bundle of stuff, and you could install that once, and then the apps were all like 2MB each.

But no, big fucking bundle of shit, every single time.