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True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

This would make an excellent short film. The fire axes scene would be epic.

Well, not anymore. /s

At the moment, it’s unknown if there was ever a real-world person behind this username or if Jia Tan is a completely fabricated individual.

Well, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a platypus. There was definitely one or more real-world people behind this. I doubt anyone thinks that their name is actually Jia Tan, though.

r/whoosh 😉

Now I understand where ChatGPT hallucinations come from.

Doesn’t poo go everywhere?

Not sure what you mean, but might be a misunderstanding. It’s not sucking water out of the bowl. It’s spraying a jet of fresh water. Some will even warm it up for you. 😁😌

Yes, I need to move around a bit to hit the mark, and generally ensure full coverage. Not sure how much I’m over doing it, but it works for me. Totally feel like I’m slumming any time I’m forced to use a toilet without one, now.

This is what I was thinking at first. This just looks like classic chain letter.

But on rereading, it appears that the person at the top is controlling who’s sending books to who, and might even be dictating where you buy the book from, which is definitely a scam.

My guess on how this works. Upon DMing the person in control, you’re instructed to buy a book from a specific website (that they control) and have the book shipped directly from there to the “stranger.”. However, “stranger” doesn’t actually exist, no books are ever sent, and the person running this whole scam is just pocketing the money rubes spend on “books”.

I vow from this point forward to always pronounce it, BEE-ka-chefs.

WTF are you talking about? All I’m saying is that if you write code (that in the context of this discussion passes arguments to a method you didn’t write, that may not be the type the author of the method expected someone to pass, but really, that’s completely beside the point), you should, oh, I don’t know, maybe test that it actually works, and maybe even (gasp) write some automated tests so that if anything changes that breaks the expected behavior, the team immediately knows about it and can make appropriate changes to fix it. You don’t need a strongly typed language to do any of that. You just need to do your job.

Theoretically, they’ll test and notice that doesn’t work and fix their code before they deploy it to production.

Good bot

Not unless you’re “buying” it from some service that doesn’t let you download the file. Definitely don’t do that.

• Buy the mp3s.
• Download them (& backup to a separate location)
• Listen to them on whatever mp3 player you want.
• Gradually accumulate an enormous music collection that you can listen to for free forever.

Just buying the mp3s and having them forever.

This is normally done on the server, by whatever tool is building the final html pages. If it’s just a static website (doesn’t take user input, glorified brochure), then one might use a static site generator (eg Jeckyll), each of which have their own mechanism for sharing common snippets. If building a more dynamic website with a database backend, then one would be using other tool (eg. Ruby on Rails), which would also each have their own mechanisms for sharing common snippets.

On it’s face, this is a very odd request. I feel like, in trying to simplify the question, you’ve left out a lot of pertinent details.

My suspicion is that you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve, and, due to lack of experience with web development, you’ve settled on this solution of using JS to copy an html snippet from one document to another, when a proper solution to the actual problem is probably nothing like that. Without knowing what the original problem is and what environment the code would be running in, I’m afraid it’s going to be nearly impossible to offer any suggestions.