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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • You can’t grow anything in the winter,

    Globalization! And before that, preserves. Good thing is nothing spoils when the world is your fridge/freezer

    don’t the pipes freeze and burst?

    Water mains are buried deep enough that they don’t freeze. Tap water is noticeably colder.

    Is it bad for the roads and bridges?

    Yes. The cold isn’t, but freeze/thaw cycles are. Most asphalt roads needs to be resurfaced every 15 years or so

    Do the homeless freeze to death?

    Yes, but most cities have heated shelters around here where people can come when it gets too cold to sleep outdoors

    The squirrels?

    Northern mammals evolved to handle it

    What about reptiles, snakes and lizards?

    What are those?


  • Like once a month we have a fake site pop up using the name of our business with 1-2 characters changed. They use a web crawler to scrape all the content off our domain and they re-host all of our products on a woocommerce site where they steal our customers credit card information.

    These all use cloudflare to conceal the hosting providers, who are entirely non-responsive without a police report or WIPO ruling. When all is said and done, the content is being hosted in China, Russia, or South Africa, meaning the only way to remove the content is from the registrar’s, because they are the only link in the chain that actually has to comply





  • The add function in the example above probably traverses the call stack to see what line of the script is currently being executed by the interpreter, then reads in that line in the original script, parses the comment, and subs in the values in the function call.

    This functionality exists so when you get a traceback you can see what line of code triggered it in the error message








  • lol. Did this in my old building - the dryer was on an improperly rated circuit and the breaker would trip half the time, eating my money and leaving wet clothes.

    It was one of the old, “insert coin, push metal chute in” types. Turns out you could bend a coat hanger and fish it through a hole in the back to engage the lever that the push-mechanism was supposed to engage. Showed everyone in the building.

    The landlord came by the building a month later and asked why there was no money in the machines, I told him “we all started going to the laundromat down the street because it was cheaper”