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  • You know what I meant, the last glacial maximum, I understand it's an ice age because there's ice at both poles, but we're very close to an interglacial, especially with our efforts to fuck up the environment

  • There may be more than one way to do it, but that really isn't the best way of doing what perl is best at

  • Just old style SMTP. That's nearly extinct on the wild internet now

  • Round is the safest way of using decimals for money as it corrects 10.499999999 (decimal fractions can't be stored precisely in floats as binary can't precisely represent all 2 digit decimals) to 10.50, where floor would take it to 10.49

    It is safer to count in cents and have a policy to handle fractions of cents from divisions

  • That's how mainframe programmers at my workplace do SQL. I think they do it due to long table and field names and narrow mainframe COBOL files

  • Create a moderately ok password, hash it, use the hash as your nice unique password, as a private joke for when the database leaks and yours is the only password that's hashed and you start getting spam saying they know your password hunter2 (because they incorrectly dehashed the password) or 2ab96390c7dbe3439de74d0c9b0b1767 (md5 sum of hunter2; because they correctly read it as plain text)

  • I wonder if they would have bought it had the dev priced it at $10k/year

  • It wouldn't take much google-fu to get a worked example of good authentication in whatever language. She can't have tried, she must have just gone "programming 104 covered how to SQL, I can use that"

  • We lived upon glaciers last ice age (except for tropical people and probably those in the southern hemisphere) if we weren't hyper carnivores then we couldn't have lived in Europe, we couldn't have crossed to the Americas. We ate animals that could eat the plants that could grow on the ice and the mountain tops poking through the glaciers, there was no fruit, no grain, no root vegetables, no beans, no cruciforms. There hasn't been enough time since then for us to become herbivores, though we inherited much ability to eat many plants from the herbivorous apes we evolved from

  • They did that with guinea pigs in testing for vitamin C content in food (if the rodents got scurvy, the food had no acerbic effect)

    Unfortunately when they were fed beef they starved, so beef was recorded as "not tested" USDA still records beef as "not tested, presumed zero)

    I have eaten only beef (every day), eggs (a dozen two weeks in 5), yoghurt (Greek style) (1kg monthly at most), fish (twice a year on holidays at the beach), wine (three occasions in four weeks) and occasionally beer (a couple of litres once a month) for 3 years - none of which are recognised as having vitamin C. Scurvy sets in in a month or so without vitamin C, and kills a few weeks after untreated symptoms, so were my foods actually devoid of the vitamin I would be years dead. I guess I'm a better guinea pig than a guinea pig is for acerbic testing.

  • There are millions of people who would disagree.

    It seems to me that anyone whose ancestors were in Europe during the last ice age is well adapted to an entirely carnivorous diet because we've only had 10k years to have winter access to plant based food, which isn't enough time to adapt to a plant based diet, let alone to lose the diet that we conquered the world with

    Vegans do badly without supplements, most carnivore diet followers don't take any supplements other than salt, and many don't take salt.

    How does your model of metabolism deal with living on a glacier?

  • I only play d&d because the accountant that hosts the game has all those 3.5 books. Games I host are Rifts or After the Bomb or TMNT

    I play whatever ttrpg lets me hang out with my friends

    I wonder whether the guy who used to run robotech games here is still within a thousand kilometres

  • They had to get rid of the credit, the text was collateral cropping

  • I live in (not tropical) Australia, so there are practically no animals that are dangerous (camels and big roos might do you harm if you got them at speed in a car)

    No lions, tigers, wolves, or bears here. No hippos, no elephants

    We have crocodiles way up north, but even they won't go after you if you stay out of the water

    Spiders, octopuses, jellyfish and snakes:

    Harmful spiders are redbacks (which are the same spider as black widows) and Sydney funnelwebs, neither of which chase you or seek your shoes (do check under the dunny seat for redbacks though, but it's not an issue in indoor toilets). Don't dig up web lined holes with your hands and you won't be bitten by a funnelwebs

    The blue ringed octopus is the only dangerous octopus and it tries to keep out of your way. If it is trapped in a small tidal pool don't pick it up and you won't be envenomated

    Jellyfish - don't swim in the ocean where there are signs telling you not to swim in the ocean. Box jellies and irukandji are regional and seasonal and the beaches they threaten are well signposted (that's also in the tropics and just south of the tropics)

    Snakes - Australian snakes aren't dangerous. They are highly venomous but they don't want to risk tangling with humans; humans eat them, and have for 40,000 years (that's 4 times longer than humans have had bread). Give them room and they'll move off. They pretty much won't bite unless you corner them, try to catch them, or step on them.

    In most of Australia you could sleep unprotected, with your food in an esky at your feet

    Australian parrots are big on getting hammered on fermenting fruit

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  • BODMAS or BOMDAS in Australia since we call ordinals ordinals

    Brackets have pretty much always been needed to disambiguate precedence between addition and subtraction (which is really all addition) and between multiplication and division

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  • Australia and the US have a reciprocal agreement which makes it so any Australian who wants to emigrate to the US can, and quite a few Americans can easily move to Australia. On the America to Australia side it is always oversubscribed, so it's moderately hard to get to Australia. I wonder if timing the application is important.

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  • The sensor is no guarantee. Quite a few low carb dieters use constant glucose monitors (CGMs) to identify which foods they should avoid

  • Insulin

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  • It was incredible how right wing pundits were so disconnected from their audience, trying to promote outrage while their audience would have been popping champaign of they could afford it