anotherfish's comments

Surprised that this hasn't been re-released for windows or at least linux.

Not sure why I got downvoted. So I'll assume its someone who can't reply. For reasons.

For the record, I have an ongoing argument with booking companies seemingly every time I book something. They always misspell my name. Even if I spell it out letter-by-letter. Even if I get them to read it out.

I had an ongoing argument with an electricity company and basically got to the point after a few days where I said, "I refuse to pay any bill until my name is spelt correctly." I got a Director of Sales to confirm they'd send me accurate bills. Or else.

So yeah, these filters are trash.

Just get rid of these filters. What exactly are you trying to prevent? It can't possibly help in the real world and these silly examples will just recur. If there's billing associated with it, its easy enough to cross reference the billing account with the "entered names" to check for mismatch.

Who exactly is Verizon to determine if the name is valid or not?

Probably happens with Ms Null as well.

How exactly is a computer meant to know that Aabb isn't real? If I have a credit card or other mechanism, eg drivers license, with that as the name, is there any value whatsoever in that system flagging that as a fake name? Its just poor customer service. I'll be offended, they'll need to apologise. For no real gain.

I'd be fascinated to see statistics on the number of times that these filters prevented "wrong doing".

Never heard of "office hours" used this way. Must be a US thing.

Its a good idea. Schedule a session with an expert or someone who is working on the thing you're interested in / supporting.

I'd definitely link it to money so that the expert doesn't get overwhelmed / (ab)used by time wasters.

This is why I ask. A big target means lots of attention. A small target might have even worse security but no one is paying attention to the same extent.

So that means the overall reputation is withering as well. Even more than before probably.

Is Lastpass a widely trusted thing? other than the obvious refrain: "of course it is - its a password manager"?

Is its security known for being well regarded?

... and again with the trolling.

I think this is mostly true and there are plenty of qualifiers. Stress is an excellent example. But in general, you can still apply various forms of leverage and get more results.

eg your ability to calculate in your head is usually limited but if you leverage the use of a calculator you can operate faster.

Also you can practice various aspects and become more efficient. So learning a technique for calculating faster can actually make you faster. Or you can memorise the Times Table and just lookup the result rather than calculating it.

The actual exploration of options can be accelerated as well. You need to be able to collapse the complexity of the evaluation down and trust this process being accurate. This is not trivial.

Even the impact of stress can be reduced by changing the "stress floor" level of what you've encountered. You can place yourself in multiple stressful situations and practice to get better.

Obviously? I don't think this is true. People pay money for horoscopes and similar so there are people out there who take it seriously. I don't.

I didn't say anyone was an idiot. That's from you. Likely because you're offended. More than you probably should be. But thats your choice. If you think horoscopes are great then keep using them.

I swapped the horoscopes around for a bet. No one noticed. Its ancient history. I won the bet. Already been paid. Already spent it.

You can't change anything here. Now you're just online trolling.

TV Studio execs at Fox cancelled Firefly. Prediction is hard. But studios in general are also very stubborn.

Accusations of being smug are usually made by people who chose a team and you've encroached or offended that team somehow. There's often an aspect of admonishment in using that word as well.

As for my part it wasn't based on arrogance as you'd likely expect. It was simply the result of a bet. I won that bet since no one noticed.

This is very much the likely scenario. The money is in further DLC. The existing GTAO engine is "done" from their perspective.

I'd guess also that the next version of the base engine is in RDR2 or later and doesn't have these issues. But at the same time they likely wouldn't backport the changes for fear of cost overruns.

We used to start up Quake while we waited then we'd forget about GTAO. Later we'd discover GTA had kicked us out for being idle too long. Then we'd just close it.

That should be embarrassing for Rockstar but I don't think they would even notice.

I felt quite good actually both then and now. But you seem angrier than you should be. Certainly angrier than someone who would have wrote "It doesn't matter which sign you check" and actually meant it.

Better to use canary email addresses that actually go somewhere you can detect incoming emails. Then it would be useful.

Going by the canary email addresses I put into my devices from time to time... nowhere good. Those email addresses receive spam despite never sending or being signed up to anything. Apps are actively uploading and selling email addresses. I'd not be surprised if some Big Data company has a massive graph of mobile numbers / email addresses sourced purely from app uploads, let alone reasonable signups. Then its all correlated with other sources like linkedin. Yay! Profit!

You probably hit the wrong "bubble". This happens. Then there's the various groupthink fashions that come and go like weather patterns on various comment sites. I doubt HN is much different. Probably better on HN but I've seen some oddball voting patterns around BLM and similar.

Yeah, horoscopes are fun. I used to mess with my school by shuffling the horoscopes in the weekly newsletter. No one noticed or complained.

Yeah, the whole peek/poke thing turned BASIC into a slow assembly language scripting language rather than actual BASIC language support. Still, it likely made the transition to assembly programming a little more straightforward for many.

BBC micros were kind of special from all reports - I never used one. Apparently they had the ability to have an auxiliary processor added, RAM expansion etc etc. By all accounts they were well made and powerful.

BBC Basic had all the goodies for graphics and sound. Anyone up to make a version that compiles to C like this CBMBASIC project?