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02-11-2024, 08:21 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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I literally dread the day when I see a post on reddit "this tiny obscure vbulletin forum has been operating without ads for 20 years and it's absolutely charming" or whatever.
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Someone would have to be looking at the registration mod queue for that to be an issue.
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02-11-2024, 01:14 PM
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Admin
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
I have been using the Chrome browser since it was launched, and flirtations with Firefox, Brave, etc. never amounted to anything, but I decided to take Arc for a spin 4-6 weeks ago and it has become my full-time only browser on my computer and it is close to becoming my only browser on the phone too. I have never genuinely loved a browser like I love this one.
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02-11-2024, 05:11 PM
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Rambling Old Fart
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
I have been using the Chrome browser since it was launched, and flirtations with Firefox, Brave, etc. never amounted to anything, but I decided to take Arc for a spin 4-6 weeks ago and it has become my full-time only browser on my computer and it is close to becoming my only browser on the phone too. I have never genuinely loved a browser like I love this one.
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I may have to try that.
Though being mostly a Windoze guy, I'll wait for post-Beta.
I use several browsers, depending on the tasks.
Firefox seems to do a good job "containing" Facebook.
Then for forums and a few simple games, I use Brave.
Chrome is still my go-to for most business related tasks.
I let Edge handle all the spinoffs from newsy sites.
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02-11-2024, 06:05 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve
I literally dread the day when I see a post on reddit "this tiny obscure vbulletin forum has been operating without ads for 20 years and it's absolutely charming" or whatever.
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Oh no!
"After purchasing Vbulletin for use with their Xboxlive gamer communities system, Microsoft has retroactively updated all Vbulletin boards to automatically accept all users from every other vbulletin board, and a list of every vBulletin in existence will endlessly scroll on the main purchasing hub next to the live all-chat."
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02-11-2024, 06:38 PM
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Rambling Old Fart
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ensign Steve
I literally dread the day when I see a post on reddit "this tiny obscure vbulletin forum has been operating without ads for 20 years and it's absolutely charming" or whatever.
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Oh no!
"After purchasing Vbulletin for use with their Xboxlive gamer communities system, Microsoft has retroactively updated all Vbulletin boards to automatically accept all users from every other vbulletin board, and a list of every vBulletin in existence will endlessly scroll on the main purchasing hub next to the live all-chat."
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SQUEEEEEEE!
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02-11-2024, 07:59 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
You people are sick.
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02-12-2024, 08:18 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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I literally dread the day when I see a post on reddit "this tiny obscure vbulletin forum has been operating without ads for 20 years and it's absolutely charming" or whatever.
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That's "medium sized", tyvm
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02-12-2024, 04:59 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
At least 1.2 Luxembourgs worth of forum!
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02-29-2024, 07:18 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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03-02-2024, 08:27 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
In completely unrelated news, one of my own scripts was hit by a leap year bug.
Linux and UNIX-like logs persist in having timestamps "month day hour:minutes:second" with no year, because who's looking at logs a year later? They are for what happened last night or at the latest last week.
So you parse the time string into a real timestamp, and stick in the current year. If you are really thoughtful you think about what would happen on 1st Jan, and add a check that if the resulting timestamp is in the future, use year-1 instead. And all is fine, until Feb 29 00:00:01.
Then you find that the default year when not specified is 1900 - and that wasn't a leap year. So your script bombs out with ValueError: day is out of range for month.
datetime.strptime without a year fails on Feb 29 · Issue #70647 · python/cpython · GitHub
Opened 29 Feb 2016.
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Every four years people encounter this in part because it just isn't obvious that partial incomplete date parsing is not what datetime.strptime is designed for.
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03-15-2024, 01:52 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
VM got out of Texas just in time.
Pornhub Blocked in Texas
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03-15-2024, 09:54 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
McDonald's customers unable to order after systems outage
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McDonald's is experiencing technical problems in its restaurants, with customers in several countries reporting being unable to order food.
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Fast food.
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04-17-2024, 03:38 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Is this an almost 4 hour video about a 28 year old video game that neither I nor I presume anyone else here plays and is thus ultimately pointless. Yes.
After being constantly frustrated with the vagueness of the modern internet, did listening to the detailed description of all 8 different causes of 'invisible walls' and their locations in hyper specifics help with the feeling that nerds who care about details are still on the internet. Also yes.
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