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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 16 Jan 24

I really don't get the point of TOML and YAML. Surely, between *.INI, Java *.properties, JSON and XML, there's something elegant, expressive and versatile enough to describe whatever configuration one desires (although...

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Great White Snark AFAIK, they're markup languages mainly used for configuring software. (YAML stands for "Yet Another Markup Language", or so I think.) I once had an issue with my computer's OS failing to connect to WiFi and attempted to configure it using the YAML config...

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Stacey @xstitcher (38221) • Petaluma, California 15 Jan 24

Well, it didn't feel like I did much today--though I did get one walk in. Probably didn't think about a second walk because 1) I was caught up in getting a couple of things ready to send to ladies in the exchange slip group on...

not much

today

sun is out

chilly for california

no rain

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Great White Snark Most days, I have no electricity for four hours a day (assuming that there are no "bonus" outages) because the infrastructure is poked. That means that I can't do much for those hours. On top of that, I'd surely win gold medals if procrastination was an...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 16 Jan 24

I really don't get the point of TOML and YAML. Surely, between *.INI, Java *.properties, JSON and XML, there's something elegant, expressive and versatile enough to describe whatever configuration one desires (although...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 28 Oct 23

It disgusts me that people can complain about how expensive everything is (which it arguably is) and how financially constrained/poor they are, on the one hand, then a few minutes to days later, throw away perfectly edible food or...

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Great White Snark @db20747 LoL. You're not the first person to suggest that. As is, I have writ a number of blogs (including on Medium, Publish0x and Tumblr) over a number of years and got a fair number of readers. MyLot policy prevents me from linking them if I don't want to...

29 Oct 23

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 29 Oct 23

This may be in the domain of Dunning-Kruger (and Smart Asian Theory), but I had some thoughts about this: If you happen to be a massive idiot online (as many people do, not just Flatards and conspiracists), then I suspect that...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 28 Oct 23

It disgusts me that people can complain about how expensive everything is (which it arguably is) and how financially constrained/poor they are, on the one hand, then a few minutes to days later, throw away perfectly edible food or...

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Great White Snark Given that I've been mostly unemployed for over three years following COVID-19 sweeping the world, relying on whatever I can scrape together from part-time and FL/IC gigs, so have I. At one stage, I could have created a small pamphlet on how to be frugal and...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 28 Oct 23

It disgusts me that people can complain about how expensive everything is (which it arguably is) and how financially constrained/poor they are, on the one hand, then a few minutes to days later, throw away perfectly edible food or...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 27 Oct 23

Yesterday's shower thought was this: What's the difference between a secret Asian man and a secret agent man? Despite the similarity in pronunciation (especially if you drop the T), there must be at least one, surely. What about...

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Great White Snark I have a suspicion that you're not alone in that. In this day and age, who knows? (Maybe Dennis Rodman and/or Steven Seagal, from what I've heard.) Certainly not I. As far as I know or can tell, not all secret agents are Asian and, presumably, not all Asians...

28 Oct 23

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 27 Oct 23

Yesterday's shower thought was this: What's the difference between a secret Asian man and a secret agent man? Despite the similarity in pronunciation (especially if you drop the T), there must be at least one, surely. What about...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 1 Mar 22

I realise that I might be asking the wrong crowd here, since this is a for-pay Q&A/writing site, but anyway ... I see an alarming number of people (including on for-pay/earning sites like Beer Money) asking about the best...

for pay

blogging

antisocial media

fruits of your labour

wtf is wrong with you

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Great White Snark Thank you. I am made of 85% snark; salty, tasty snark ... (and 15% speaking my mind, even if I get into trouble for doing so).

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 1 Mar 22

I realise that I might be asking the wrong crowd here, since this is a for-pay Q&A/writing site, but anyway ... I see an alarming number of people (including on for-pay/earning sites like Beer Money) asking about the best...

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Great White Snark There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, people have reacted like there *is* something wrong, like wanting to be paid is greedy and immoral. I've found that the majority of those people are misogynistic men who have a problem with women...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 1 Mar 22

I realise that I might be asking the wrong crowd here, since this is a for-pay Q&A/writing site, but anyway ... I see an alarming number of people (including on for-pay/earning sites like Beer Money) asking about the best...

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Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

confusion

social interaction

finite state machines

human fallibility

communication

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Great White Snark @ihasaquestion Unfortunately, it's a practice I've adopted as the result of hard-won experience. I don't like doing it because it's dishonest and burns those who pay in good faith, but I also don't like getting burned on deals, either. “Never do business...

24 Feb 22

Zul Airan Mujica Frontado @zulfrontado (199) • Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela 17 Feb 22

There are two places that I consider quiet, that you can visit and sit and think about anything: the beach and a square. I love to sit and talk for an hour and just disconnect from everything, and connect with that human contact...

quiet place venezuela beach connect

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Great White Snark There's a business park not for from where I live. I used to work for one of the companies that has premises in it. When I resigned from my job, they forgot to invalidate my access card. Sometimes, I go running there on weekends, but I haven't done so for a...

24 Feb 22

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

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Great White Snark @ihasaquestion That's not how Capitalism works (insofar as it does). It would be great to be subject to "fair pay for honest work", instead of having to add a 25-33% markup so that when clients try to knock me down (as they invariably do), they still...

24 Feb 22

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

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Great White Snark @ihasaquestion Thank you. I hope so too, but I doubt it, at the rate I earn. I'm hoping that my clients pay me before the end of the month, so that I'll have something to show for all the work I've done. Chasing bad debtors isn't fun.

23 Feb 22

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

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Great White Snark @ihasaquestion Thank you. I'm really hoping I get it (or any permanent employment, really), since my parents' business has collapsed/dissolved and they're looking to me to somehow bring in ~$2 680 by the end of next month or we all end up in serious trouble.

18 Feb 22

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

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Great White Snark @ihasaquestion I've been for the interview. I'm now waiting to be informed as to whether or not I got the job.

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