“Stop! !!! Hammertime!”
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
“Stop! !!! Hammertime!”
Rest assured that they’ve already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.
Mental health problems by any chance? He may need more help than family can provide if you want him to get back on his feet (and out the door).
It would be a good sign if he seems like he wants to get his own place again, even if he’s not able to make steps towards it.
Source: I’d probably be in the same boat if the laws and property upkeep rules were stricter here. Even so, I’d be wanting to get out of family accommodation ASAP. My family are good people, but I can’t spend long periods with them. There might be a hint or two in that somewhere.
(But whatever you do, please don’t fail to be kind.)
Pegasus be like: Problem?
Most of the old buildings (usually churches / cathedrals) here have been built upon and changed over the centuries so what you see above ground is still old, but it’s not - at least comparatively - ancient.
I’m in England. I may or may not be in a town that has something like that, but even the places that don’t have something are within a couple of hours’ drive of somewhere that does.
I will say that where I am is listed in the Domesday book, but that isn’t saying much to be fair.
Peroxide and then hypochlorite bleach. Not at the same time. There are products that contain them if you can’t get them neat. In fact I recommend those.
Try the peroxide first. Dilute as necessary. Wipe or spray on. Leave it on for a while to loosen anything and everything it can. After a while fill with hot (60-80C) water, but beware of thermal shock. Leave to stand until warm, not hot. Try to clean the glasses as best you can. This may be all you need.
If not, try the bleach. Same steps, but make sure you’re in a well ventilated area. I’ve found that while it stinks up the place, the mould just peels right off and into the hot bleach solution.
If the glasses smell of bleach afterwards, fill with warm water and leave for a day or two. Repeat as necessary. The bleach will dissipate eventually.
How about, I don’t know, not yanking the cord (or setting things up so the cord is yanked automatically) and pursuing the payment later?
But then that could mean that someone might - even temporarily - get something for nothing, and they can’t be seen to promote anything even remotely similar to that.
Perhaps this tiny company are so close to the knife edge that they can’t afford to allow it to happen. Must have constant revenue stream or else close up sho… wait, Micro-who?
How it became the most prominent conspiracy theory is wild to me.
Every word in “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” is a single syllable. Very easy to rattle around in an empty head. I mean, heck, it’s still rattling around in mine…
I just imagined a horrible alternative universe where it’s illegal for brand names to become corrupted regardless of whatever else happens to data. Eventually humanity would start communicating only in brand names to ensure messages get through. *shudder*
Where’s “here”? I’m in the UK and only discovered that there had been a specific saying, in (Soviet) Russia, about (contemporaneous) China, very recently. Maybe it was a joke I wasn’t privy to or heard but was too young to appreciate at the time.
(As to how I discovered it recently: I had been looking for a name or “law” for the concept of constantly making vague or empty threats - it’s kind of like crying wolf, but not - and somehow ended up the Wikipedia article on “China’s final warning”.)
There used to be a joke in Russia called “China’s final warning” because of the hundreds of times China used to threaten a “final warning” to whoever it perceived (correctly or otherwise) as encroaching on its politics or territories, and then promptly did absolutely nothing.
The joke is in danger of defecting and getting a new name.
If dealing with a small bunch of nutters was so easy, the Troubles wouldn’t have been quite so troubling, now, would they?
This would just be the same thing but with a different bunch of nutters.
I have to wonder if the potential for accidentally falling out of a window goes any way into affecting the way he approaches certain debts.
There are devices that literally shake the bed to wake up a sleeper. Most often used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people for whom audio alarms are non-starters, but it could work for you if you’re actually sleeping through and not snoozing. There are a few that work on smells as well.
Or any of the churches that have kept Christmas where the Julian calendar had it, which is generally some time in January.
“Hurt me, daddy.”
“OK, now you’ve made it weird.”
“Aw yeah, that’s the stuff.”
Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?
I finally got the right search term for it to turn up again.
I can’t believe you’ve done this.
95% of all “Introduction to <whatever programming language>” books tend to dedicate the first couple of chapters to the fundamentals but with a specific bias towards the language in question. Seek out a few of those at a library or online equivalent and you’ll start to see patterns cropping up.
Anything that doesn’t have that bias is likely to use pseudocode which looks like a programming language anyway.
Object orientation works around the concept that things in the program “know” things about themselves and how to do things for themselves rather than have some other part of the program do things to them. Commonly you’ll see things like
doSomethingWith(someObject)
being the non-OO way andsomeObject.doSomething
being the OO way. That is, in the lattersomeObject
contains the knowledge of how todoSomething
, and the dot notation urges it to do whatever it is.For a silly but more concrete example,
x ← 2 + 2
is non-OO, butx ← 2.add(2)
is at least partially OO because the first 2 is expected to know how to add another 2 to itself and give out the correct answer. Presumably in whatever language that is, someone has created a method for numbers to know what to do when told toadd
. The other 2 doesn’t really get a say in things. We might also have, say,elephant.putOn(hat)
, but it might not be possible tohat.putOn(elephant)
because no-one thought to teach the hat how to wear things, let alone elephants.