I prefer the extended versions every time, but there are a few scenes here & there that do slow down the pacing a bit. However, the “Concerning Hobbits” intro to hobbits and The Shire at the beginning of Fellowship should have absolutely been included in the theatrical version. It sets the stage so much better and really drives home just how much of an idyllic life the hobbits are forced to leave behind.
Well shit, I’ve never seen AoC before - I’m not usually very interested in programming just for fun, but I might give that a try!
There’s probably regional differences, like a lot of pronunciations in America. I’m American and the way I say “Craig” is closer to “krayg” than it is to “kregg”.
But that’s 11 words!
Ten word requirement
It’s an interesting test
This one’s successful
And yet here we all are, reading your comment. Maybe the algorithms on some platforms are that aggressive, but certainly not here.
It seems that AI really is good for some things after all
I agree with your main point, although I think your example of COBOL being used to this day in financial institutions is actually the opposite problem. The guys that originally developed that shit were damn good programmers, but they were severely constrained by the available hardware, limitations of the language, etc. So they had to get really clever in order to make these massive, complicated systems work. In my experience, those really old legacy systems tend to be rock solid with near 100% uptime and almost no errors. They’ve never been rewritten because doing so would be a multi-year effort costing millions of dollars, and the end result would be a system that is most likely slower, buggier, and has less functionality.
TLDR: The old COBOL systems are unmaintainable messes not because of incompetent developers, but because the limitations of the available technology when they were originally developed forced a bunch of really good devs to have to get extremely creative and hacky with their solutions.
This is amazing. I love how hard they started glitching at the end
Holy shit, have we worked with the same guy?
There was a guy that was the owner’s favorite at a place I worked years ago. Among all the other shit he would regularly get away with, one time he wrote all over the door to another employee’s office with a highlighter. Since that shit’s permanent, the door had to be repainted. This guy owns the company now.
Which the teacher failed (assuming this is real)
I had no idea Lemmy even had avatars until I read this post. So I went into my profile out of curiosity - even though I already had “Show Avatars” checked, I’ve never seen a user’s avatar on here before. I did upload one for my own profile though for the hell of it.
That’s everyone in IT
USA, Catholic school - Sex Ed was nonexistent
Lord of the Rings Marathon
I recently bought a new house and holy crap, what a difference. Even shorter people had to duck going up & down the stairs in my old basement. There is not a single place in my new house that I need to duck my head, and it’s glorious.
I had free laundry for most of my freshman year of college. We had coin operated machines, and somebody quickly figured out that you can strip 2 wires and just touch them together, or touch a coin to both of them, and every time you did that the machine would think a coin had been inserted. Eventually the college caught on and one day I went down there and all the machines were taken apart with maintenance guys working on them, and after that there was a heavy duty housing for the coin acceptor with no exposed wires. It was nice while it lasted!
OP shouldn’t be doing it even if they are a licensed plumber, since it’s the landlord’s responsibility, not theirs. Even if they know what they’re doing, it opens up legal liability.