Most humans wouldd never write the word first
followed by ()
. It absolutely should have been zeroth()
, and would not cause any confusion amongst anyone who needed to write it.
Most humans wouldd never write the word first
followed by ()
. It absolutely should have been zeroth()
, and would not cause any confusion amongst anyone who needed to write it.
Quite right. XBumpick 2.3 was only ever released in the US, after ‘the incident’ back in 1996.
Anything’s a regex if you’re brave enough.
10 years of idle time in 10 years. Did you just like leave a computer switched on for 10 years while you took up farming?
Just archive it and take up farming.
Do you work for Boeing?
How often did you catch it disappearing?
New Order—Blue Monday. Broke my first hifi listening to it too loud.
I’ve spent a few weeks on Lemmy/all blocking things I don’t care to see, and honestly it’s now pretty good. Plenty of diversity still and easier than subscribing plus occasionally new things pop up that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
Narrowly missed out on spending the day with Patrick Stewart at an event in London. My wife went instead and she doesn’t even like Star Trek. She said he was very nice though.
All good points—did you mean “tiny violin mode”, or have I been misunderstanding that song for a long time?
Always. https://xkcd.com/378/
I’ve been using AWS R53 for this for ages and it works well. Not specifically recommending AWS but using dynamic updates rather than a DDNS service (or running your own name server which I’ve also done).
And more than one skeleton.
Is there any good reason to limit a text field like that these days? Although, UCAS probably still rocking a System/360…
Seeing your kids on stage is magic—my son has been in various professional and amateur roles since he was 10. He can act and sing, which opened up musicals too. Having several aspects to performance has definitely helped him. Actor musicians can be in great demand, but since there are few (compared to actor / singer / dancer), I don’t think there are as many opportunities as there might be.
If your kids are ok with the acting side, definitely encourage them.
On a related note, I was also involved in the building of a new theatre at my kids school, and I tried to convince them to not restrict it to the music and drama departments. No matter what field you’re going to go into, being confident in front of an audience (even just presenting on your own subject) is a valuable skill that theatre can teach. I’m now grey enough to not worry about speaking to an audience. I wish I’d had that confidence earlier in my career.
I started volunteering at a children’s theatre. Just finished the third of three production runs, seeing kids from 8 to 18 astound audiences with performances that surpass professional productions I’ve seen. It’s renewed my belief in the power of the arts to change lives, when my whole training and professional life has been in the sciences.
Atheist really means a definite belief that there is no god. Agnostic is less ‘strong’, asserting that it’s impossible to know how the universe was created and whether or not divine beings exist.
That is a lovely little vignette. Thank you for a glimpse into your world :)
Of course—that’s why we have such classics as
stristr()
,strpbrk()
, andstripos()
. Pretty obvious what the differences are there.But to your point, the ‘intuitive’ counterpart to ‘zeroth’ is the item with index zero. What we have is a mishmash of accurate and colloquial terms for the same thing.