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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • The tooth fairy is one of those ones that even if your kid learns the truth, nobody is going to get too upset. You can just keep giving them the money yourself, and tell them not to tell their friends, because if they tell their friends, their friends who have stingy parents will stop getting money.

    Also, some kids are scared of the tooth fairy.



  • You explaining that you would only do a numerical sort when the basename of the filename is entirely a number, as if your logical sense translates into a good user experience, is exactly why companies have to hire UX designers instead of just programmers.

    If you have Windows 10, I suggest that you play around with filenames with numbers in file explorer and see how they’re sorted. Your intuition does not match the average user’s expectations in this circumstance.


  • Both “11” and “11.” are strings, because the context is listing filenames. Filenames are not numbers. They are strings. If you sort filenames by number, you are asking the computer to interpret the string as having a number inside it. At worst, it might interpret “11” as an integer and “11.” as a floating point number, because that syntax is often used to specify a floating point number in programming. But even then, it could still sort them correctly.

    I don’t mean to start an argument, but as a professional programmer, there are just some things that I know.





  • I’d expect that with the zillions of crime scene photographs taken, the need to use chalk to outline the body is lessened, and simultaneously, with more advanced forensic techniques, the danger that chalk would contaminate evidence is increased.

    In modern crime dramas, I don’t recall seeing chalk outlines around bodies, but around other evidence like bullet casings, presumably because they might roll somewhere. If that’s true, then they’d still bring chalk along.



  • When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

    There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

    Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I’d have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

    This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn’t have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can’t see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn’t fit those categories.

    From that experience, it didn’t feel like they would “take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously.” How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn’t even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.