Sorry to snipe your thread, but how did you add an image to the post?

I think we are all well-experiences with these damn cookie screens, and while most play nice (i.e., once you click NO to everything, it gets remembered for the next time you go to a website that uses that screen), there is one cookie screen in particular that doesn't play nice, and makes in a PITA to unclick the 8 or so checkboxes for "Legitimate Interest" cookies (an Orwellian term if there ever were one). I would be most appreciative if anyone can point me to a browser add-on that automatically defeats this (i.e., by silently unclicking all these damn checkboxes), especially for Firefox. NOTE: I do not want to simply have NO cookies, since I do like them for stuff like logins, etc. EDIT: I've tried to post a screenshot of this obnoxity, but couldn't figure it out. I even tried by toggling off uBlocker, and still couldn't do it - but I have learned that codeproject.com itself has an obnoxious cookie screen. :mad:

It seems impossible to get a fraction with more than 10 in the denominator from these fonts. Certainly someone has produced such a font.

An Analysis of the Math Requirements of 199 CS BS/BA Degrees at 158 U.S. Universities – Communications of the ACM[^]

To paraphrase Al Bundy, "you're hired!"

But they have the best lager louts.

I do have a private stash where I keep the icon files - they don't get deleted, but they stop working in Explorer. :mad:

I've installed this, and it seems to be the "Preview" version. What's that all about? :confused:

Yes, this is part & parcel of programming. :) Back when I was slinging code, I used to read books from Scott Meyer ("Effective C++") et al to bring my level of coding practice to that of a fine craftsman. Did that craftsmanship keep me employable? NO Do employers give a rat's a33 about such craftsmanship? H3LL NO Indeed, the reason that Java has become the default application development is because all its belts & suspenders make it so that the product that poor coders put out will not (usually) cause crashes and other failures, since the compiler ensures that everything is neatly belted up. I'd like to say something similar about JavaScript, but that monster makes Java look professorial.

I've using the little tool "Default Programs Editor", and although sometimes it's a bit strange, it works. However, whenever Window$, VideoLan, or InfraView does an update, a whole bunch of icons get redone to the stupid traffic cone or cat icons of those latter 2 apps :mad::mad:, thus causing me to have to go through the tedious process to put in my own prefered icons for image, sound & video files. I've had enough of this, and I can't take it anymore! :mad: I want a tool that lets me keep some type of batch file such that when these icon extinction events happen, I can just run the tool with the existing batch file, and be done with it. Any ideas?

I was on a gig when I wanted to use STL, but was told to roll my own in plain old C. :omg: So much for learning STL! BTW, if you want to get a good laugh, look at Scott Meyer's Effective STL book. The compiler warnings/errors are truly grotesque.

I think Micro$oft's Delegate system to be quite hokey. Just give me regular function pointers to work with!

I've been getting junk E-mails from @message.fedex.com, which a low-level FedEx rep says is not legit (I'm waiting on someone higher up there to confirm this), and I don't want the legitimate messages from @fedex.com to be blocked if I block the messages from @message.fedex.com.

I have a mini-PC (BeeLink) that has bricked on me, and evidently these things are throwaway items. I have some files there that I had not backed up, so I'd like to access the memory to do so. The memory is this: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial CT16G4SFD832A DDR4 Laptop Memory, PC4-25600(3200), Non-ECC, Unbuffered SO-DIMM, CAS 22, 1.2Vby Avarum RAM - Newegg.com[^] I can't figure out from a search at Amazon as to how to get a compatible enclosure - and a discussion with a Geek Squad guy left me with the impression that one needs to get the perfectly compatible enclosure - which of course, is not for sale at Best Buy ... :wtf:

Ah, the days of the 8-bit color map and 14.4k dial-up modems ...

I posted this at reddit, but then I remembered that the real hardware experts hang around CodeProject (yes, the flattery is intentional so that I get good information). NOTE: What I call an "extension cable" is a cable with 1 male end and 1 female end, with the ends being the standard big USB port. I had bought a pair of no-name extension cables from Amazon, and then when I tried to use them with a GameDoc Ultra video-capture box, neither of them worked - and so now I am looking for a brand that I can get at Amazon that will work. Or is it that the signal from the video-capture box gets too attenuated (this cable was 10-feet), and thus I need some sort of boost device, etc.? I just want to be able to keep my computer on a table that happens to be that far from the video-capture box & console (XBox360 - yes, I understand that it's "vintage").

I don't even have a WIFI modem that works. I tried to contact Beelink technical support, but that was a joke. I bought it off of Amazon as Beelink was pretty much the only inexpensive, fast micro-desktop - and by the time I had come to the conclusion that the WIFI just doesn't work, I had already installed Windows 10 (i.e., instead of the crap Windows 11) and installed my apps & files, so I wasn't in the mood to zap the drive and return it. With a WIFI USB stick, everything works, and there are a lot of USB ports on the rig, and I have a venerable Dynex USB hub too - and I have exactly 1 free USB port for that Bluetooth. :)

Chuck Berry had originally wanted the lyrics to be a "colored boy named Johnny B. Goode", but the tenor of the times would not allow it, so it got turned into "country boy ...".

Kenneth Haugland wrote:

Imaginary numbers are actually from Italy. Solving the quintic, they came up, and everyone said they weren't real, but Cardano showed that you could actually plug in the answers and get zero out, so... They did give answers, but not a real solution that you could use in this world.

Actually, it was to solve the cubic. The only way to solve a real cubic that has 3 real solutions is to have an intermediate quadratic solution of complex conjugates. The quintic cannot be solved, and that was proven by Abel, who refined the proof that Ruffini had done (and which was a mess). Later on, Galois used Abel's work to come up with the idea of permutation groups, from which spring the discipline of Group Theory. Arnold came up a with proof that does not rely on Group Theory, but instead relies on the complex plane and functions that wind around the plane.

Obviously, Statistics is the basis of Data Science, and one must know Calculus to understand Statistics at a deep level. Should We Stop Teaching Calculus In High School?[^]