I’ve had a few dreams as a cis male where I was a woman, so basically I reject your premise. However in most dreams I’m not even a character, I’m just the perspective from which the story is experienced.

Are you saying id-gaff or I-D-G-A-F?

Well that’s … descriptive.

I mean, I wouldn’t call riding a motorcycle “safe”.

I’m not even arguing against them, it just feels like calling it “safe” makes it easy to dismiss all the safety precautions you should take and safety gear you should use whenever you do ride one.

That was super cool.

Honestly, why? We’ve got billions of people driving around in cars they don’t know how to build. Is that a problem too?

One use case is if you’re running a web server that is configured to return a “maintenance” page instead of the live site if a particular file exists. Which is actually pretty cool because then you don’t have to update the config when you need to do something or let your users get a bunch of 502 errors, you just touch maintenance and you’re good.

I dunno but it’s got 17 comments right now which is also a good metric.

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I hope no one ever seriously uses that, because he suggested it himself.

Lately I’ve been seriously thinking about resurrecting my FidoNet node. It looks like FidoNet still exists!

Common among the electronics hobbyists that OP mentioned as well, leads are what you call the connections to discrete components or IC’s.

Well that can’t be true, everything I see when I look around is in the US.

I’m a CPA and my PC runs Linux, but also has a Windows VM for when I need Excel (unfortunately the open source alternatives just don’t cut it, and I’m guessing it’s similar for someone who relies on Word the way accountants rely on Excel), and my work laptop runs Windows.

If you ever edit PDFs with Acrobat Pro, there’s no good Linux equivalent that I’ve found for that either. It can be done, but you’ll need a couple of different programs depending on what you need to edit in the PDF.

In general I’d say that you can run your business in Linux, but it is probably not the best choice.

I tend to think of it like a garbage disposal. If you can’t dispose of your garbage, you gotta keep it somewhere. Except most things probably don’t check if it exists or have a backup plan, so they’ll just crash.

I wish you got that money too.

Something like parsing a string that could have command codes in it of varying length. So I guess the difference is, is this a 1-, 2-, or 3-character code?

I have something like this in a barcode generator and I keep trying to find a way to make it more elegant, but I keep coming back to index and offset as the simplest and most understandable approach.

Honest question: is there a mapping function that handles the case where you need to loop through an iterable, and conditionally reference an item one or two steps ahead in the iterable?

I haven’t tried that, but my guess is generally no based on other things I’ve tried chatGPT for and things I’ve read. It would probably have some lucky hits and those would seem like magic, but it would mostly produce correct-sounding answers that don’t fix the problems.

Imagine making a typo and it continually being shared and highlighted for over 30 years.

Kinda makes me glad I’ll never be famous for anything.