My wife did 502 in 4 attempts last night around midnight. Woke up this morning to a blank Wordle but was sure she did it already so typed in the answer again and got credit for doing it in 1 attempt. Now I am accusing her of hacking Wordle ...and she has become slightly more sexy to me :-D

I'm gonna go with about 100km south-southeast of Madagascar, in the water. I have a smudge on my monitor at that exact location when viewing the satellite tracker and I can't seem to wipe it off, so it must be a sign. Of course if I scroll the web page up or down my prediction would change... but I haven't scroll yet so I'm sticking with my first prediction instead of, say, the Saudi Arabian desert.

That's just a cynical way of seeing something that is just plain human nature. Celebrities are the most readily accessible figures we get visibility toward... and they often happen to have things we plebs don't, so they take on a proxy role of our aspirations and fantasies. I wish I was great at golf, so I look to someone who is great AND who's life is accessible when I want inspiration. When that proxy (Tiger) suffers so is a small part of me that I have attached to him. It is called empathy. Now , should we be using celebrities and luminaries this way? Probably not so I'll give you that. If I were exposed to the suffering of a handful of "normal" folk I would also feel empathy. For example, at the end of CNN Wolf Blitzer's show every day he showcases a few COVID victims, offering a few personal factoids like an obit. These are invariably normal folk who's families no doubt contacted CNN to be included in the memorium. It's a small gesture that focuses on the often overlooked impact of COVID on average American families, however it is every bit (if not more) as moving and empathy-inducing as a Tiger car crash story. Why? Because I can't help but see a little bit of myself in those family vignettes.

If that pun was inadvertent you have some untapped skill :laugh: Anyhoo, I care. As a semi-avid golfer I've followed Tiger's career for over 20 years. May be mostly memories for most now but his dominance on the course was awe-inspiring, and I would love to see that dominance at least one more time, not to mention have him surpass the all time wins record. He is possibly the GOAT of the GOATS across all sports and that is the main reason why people care.

dandy72 wrote:

The day it becomes a requirement for me to have any sort of social media account "for my professional life" is the day I throw in the towel.

This! If I could manage to get my other thumb out of my ass I'd give it two thumbs up :thumbsup:

Archaeology (a former career and passion), with which I'm happy to just supplement my pay but otherwise it pays too little, has no job security, typically offers no health insurance, and you end up living out of hotels a lot despite having a perfectly fine home of your own that you pay for. Also, as evidenced by my full second refrigerator, there is my passion for beer hunting and drinking, especially New England IPAs (yeah, I'm one of those guys and unapologetic about it because they taste so damn good)... and (duh) I would love to get paid to do that, but also because it would offset the medical bills I will incur later in life due to all the beer drinking. Oddly, the more I do either of those hobbies the less I want to be coding.

For those who reply RTFM... I believe it would be far more cost effective to just allow the ensuing bug to be reported by the end user and fix it then. ;P

Unless the between-the-sheets activity leads to marriage. In that case the amount of work involved logically suggests you should just take the money equivalent. :laugh:

I second that request. Can we be shown the IsEmpty code please? Can't be too many company secrets hidden in there... god, please say there isn't! :omg:

Totally agree. Nothing wrong with using 3rd party code or frameworks but no one shoudl be afraid to roll up their sleeves and make it themselves if the need fits.

I unfortunately work with a legacy system that was written without FKs. The amount of crap data in this DB is enough to make angels cry. This is why I was curious. It's the classic thinking that you only need to write a DB for the front end's needs without considering that other systems may one day interact with it with their own idiosyncrasies (forget about devs going in and mussing things up directly in the tables).

So to sum it all up it sounds like we have the perception that exorbitant cost of product should equal better coding standards or at least an upgrade to better technology. What's new? I am curious about one aspect though... there was mention of poor referential integrity. Are you saying that there is actually misshapen data like, for instance, orphaned records or data points stored in the wrong fields or invalid values (i.e. an invalid enum value)? That would be more alarming.

"...But the BABES are back!!" lol. That is one seriously awesome commercial. Thank you.

...and if you rename or move that file before deleting it the check in comes to a screeching halt because *gasp* the file isn't there anymore. TFS gets itself into more existential conundrums than a nihilist week-long retreat. I know MS. Clearly I'm not "holding it the right way".

c'throd vulgtlagln Cthulu lw'nafh shogg-ogg ah'nnn gof'nn pizza hlirgh y'hah uaaah uaaah (We tremble before and pray to the great Cthulu in the dream of the realm of darkness to protect his children from this pizza heretic. Amen) R'lyehian - CthulhuWiki[^]

I'm glad others found the answer for you. I was going to suggest spinning up a Windows 7 VM so you could use the old calculator :-D

Not true. According to IMDB regarding Columbo:

Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.

Columbo (TV Series 1971–2003) - IMDb[^] Please refrain from revisionist history :laugh:

Then by any measure in my book you are a wealthy man my friend! :-D Those were good days for me. These days its hard to recapture the *actual* thrill felt back then of exploring algorithms for the first time. It probably has something to do with the utter lack of worldly responsibilities I enjoyed as a kid. Everything comes with such weight attached to it now in middle age... deadlines, boss or peer review, balancing home and family life, managing debt, mortgages, etc. I should probably add staving off alcoholism to that list cuz I feel the strong need for a drink right now. :sigh:

Actually I started with the 400 then got the 800 and finally the 1200XL (and also the 2600 gaming console). I was such an Atari-stack guy!

I had the Atari 410 tape drive. Boy I wish I had my old programs from back then - all lost in the black hole where stray cassette tapes got sucked into :( I remember rendering images by changing formulas in a loop to generate colored pixels... basically was experimenting with fractals in the early 80's as a kid. Had no idea what they were nor their potential. I just liked the beautiful patterns. Looking back I was more nerdy than I would have thought at the time. :) Atari 8-bit computer peripherals - Wikipedia[^]