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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Commenting unsexually on people’s appearance is just regular harassment.

    Harassment can be many things. Sometimes it can be nothing it all, if not doing something is the harassment, like withholding information.

    If you deliberately withhold information from one gender, then the non-action is sexual harassment.

    So really, there is no minimum threshold for harassment, sexual or not.

    I think the previous poster means that some kinds of harassment are worse than others. Getting physically attacked is obviously worse, but I disagree that lesser types of harassment should refrain from being called out to reserve the word for worse types. My opinion is directly opposite: We shouldn’t neglect any kind of harassment just because someone has it worse.


  • It affects a lot more than just Microsoft and their services. Imagine all the 2 factor logins where the code is send by mail, such as payment processors or other services with high security. They’ll still work but the users can get locked out. If this continues for a little longer, we’ll start to see some real consequences worse than just email being down.

    Other mail providers are working, so we could just send mails through those, but with Microsoft having the majority of business market share, you probably shouldn’t expect to receive a reply from anyone using it. Just another way it is disrupting a whole lot of people who have jack shit to do with Microsoft.


  • It is luxurious. It’s approx. 5 m² , but well worth the space.

    If we ever buy a home without one, I’d gladly sacrifice 5 m² from any other room to make this kind of preparation room. It works great for a family.

    If I were alone, I’d probably build a tiny house with a combined shower/toilet, but I’d keep my toothbrush in the kitchen.


  • My wife and I bought an old house which has been rearranged many times over the years. One upstairs room has a sink, but no toilet or shower. The toilet is in a separate room with its own sink. It’s the weirdest arrangement, but it works great.

    We call it the toothbrush room. Most houses don’t have such a room, but I do recommend it. It gets more use than most rooms. Obviously the entrance and kitchen gets the most use, but the whole family comes through the toothbrush room at least twice daily.

    We’ve set some cabinets, make up mirrors, the ironing board, all the hair appliances and such. It’s perfect for getting ready, ironing a shirt, flattening the hair, shaving or putting on makeup without having to stand in shit fumes or shower moist. It’s the perfect ready room.


  • I’ve only seen it in practice when someone is throwing a large party and wants to bring their own cheaper wine. It can even be the exact same wine.

    Paying the full restaurant markup on the wine can be excessive if you hold a wedding for 70 people and if you can find it much cheaper from tax free or bulk purchase. It would still make sense to pay the corkage fee then.






  • Yes, the name is irrelevant.

    Whatever it’s called you’ll be amazed by how few times you ever have to say it once you have it.

    The only times I’ve had to use a word for the “universal healthcare” that we have (which doesn’t have a name) is when trying to describe it to people who don’t have it already. Everyone in the world except America will understand “healthcare” in this way to begin with. If you really need to explain something that is not, you’d explicitly use “private healthcare” or “insurance” for anything else.

    It would be funny though if it was named after his wife: ‘“I don’t really care, do you?”- care"’


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    I witnessed an example of this today while driving my daughter and her friend.

    My daughter pointed at a horse and said “look the horse is in gallop!”

    Her friend who wants to be the self proclaimed all-knowing horse expert immediately responded: “That’s because…” and then didn’t know how to continue the sentence. Eventuelly she ended it with “the horse is training there.”

    She never wanted to make a point. She just wanted to take charge of the sentence about the topic that she wanted to be the authority on.


  • You would if you ever were the one to file.

    I once had a short internship in a company and got assigned to filing. Going on my merry way I sorted everything by voucher number before entering them in the cabinets.

    Then I looked up and realized that there were more than one set of voucher series for different sub companies and they all had the same voucher numbers in each their series.

    Tough luck for anybody who ever needed to find those vouchers ever again. It’s not like I could undo it.





  • I already did it on floppies.

    I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls. Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn’t store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram.

    Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much.

    People simply did more with less. I want that to return. The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program.