I’m aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I’m not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I’m doing here, probably. 😅

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

That’s kind of an insult to the parrot, isn’t it?

Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.

Eh, I’m sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

And Perl.

Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

Odd. Do you get anything from lemmy.world at all? Maybe your ISP is blocking the server?

That’s weird. For me it has a full set of posts, most recent a day ago. Maybe it’s blocked for you for some reason?

(Looks at own screen, which is in fact set up for Times New Roman everywhere. Coughs.)

Sorry to tell you this, bot, but the URL works better for people on all but the most populous instances.

You mean you leave that enabled? 😱

They used the type of link that goes to where the community would be on your server if someone there had already subscribed. Try the absolute location on lemmy.world to decide whether you’re interested or not (and I wonder how long it will take a bot to complain about that link?)

Well, I downvoted it because I consider pranks to be Not Cool in general, having been a target of a number of mean-spirited ones when I was younger. Others’ mileage may vary.

🎵 It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🎵 (Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time someone said or implied that . . .)

I’ve never understood the whole “fear of missing out” thing, probably because I’ve spent my entire life “missing out” by most people’s standards and am aware that it isn’t the end of the world.

If it won’t wait by the conveyor belt to collect your checked luggage, there’s still a boring, repetitive task it doesn’t cover.

My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.

Provided you’re paying them, I can’t see why you would need to feel uncomfortable. Many of them would probably be overjoyed to collect some cash doing something they like doing anyway—seniors whose income was just enough pre-COVID are really struggling now.