look babe, if you want to program something based on human life expectancy statistics and "iffiness" to save you typing two digits, be my guest, but i ain't gonna
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
look babe, if you want to program something based on human life expectancy numbers and "iffiness" to save you typing two digits, be my guest, but i ain't gonna
i dunno, i mean i guess it makes sense that nobody wants to try to commit that to code, but at the same time...it's one of those issues that's frustrating because a computer needs me to spell out something that would be obvious to a human interpreting the same input.
if i write "8/10/90" on a piece of paper, the person reading it is going to understand that the only reasonable interpretation is 1990. the computer needs to explicitly be told that. >_<
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
well what about people who are going to be born in 2090?
if i were going write code to interpret two-digit dates, the range wouldn't be fixed, it would be based on the current date. by 2100 or so, it would be assuming "90" means 2090 because most people born in 1990 are dead.
that said, i can see why, as tzetze said, you really wouldn't want to bother with such a program.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...see, now I'm wondering how Microsoft Excel does it, because it seems to interpret two-digit years as belonging to one century or another by default...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...see, now I'm wondering how Microsoft Excel does it, because it seems to interpret two-digit years as belonging to one century or another by default...
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Well, a human can't memorize and spit out enormous amounts of data, because if they could, a very small pygmy with wires jacked up their ass would be sitting on this table right now.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
By default, Excel determines the century by using a cutoff year of 2029 [...]
The article I found this in is for Excel 2000 to 2007; I'm guessing they changed this in recent versions because 2029 isn't that far away anymore...
Nope! Tried it in Excel 2016. "1/1/30" still comes out to "1/1/1930".
This seems to be another example of "this was designed 25 years ago and we didn't see that people would still be using this code so much later, but now people rely on it so we have to keep it this way for compatibility"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Incidentally, I like that the Office 2016 programs are version 16.0
It's a neat coincidence in that they didn't have to fudge it...beyond all the version number fudging they did back in the '90s, at least
Most real-life sociopaths, far from living glamorous and powerful lives, usually grow up in lower-class urban backgrounds and come from abusive households. They generally don't tend to hold jobs for very long because, as it turns out, poor impulse control and pathological lying are not skills conducive to climbing social ladders. They're more to be pitied than anything.
The kind of sociopath we see in American Psycho is a purely hypothetical construct, and we likely lack very valuable data about those kinds of people (if they exist at all).
Most real-life sociopaths, far from living glamorous and powerful lives, usually grow up in lower-class urban backgrounds and come from abusive households. They generally don't tend to hold jobs for very long because, as it turns out, poor impulse control and pathological lying are not skills conducive to climbing social ladders. They're more to be pitied than anything.
The kind of sociopath we see in American Psycho is a purely hypothetical construct, and we likely lack very valuable data about those kinds of people (if they exist at all).
I don't think they'd be crazymurderers but I would not be for a second surprised if there were rich, successful people with diagnosable Antisocial Personality Disorder. The level of cackling evil a lot of rich people do sometimes for no reason has never ceased to amaze me
Most real-life sociopaths, far from living glamorous and powerful lives, usually grow up in lower-class urban backgrounds and come from abusive households. They generally don't tend to hold jobs for very long because, as it turns out, poor impulse control and pathological lying are not skills conducive to climbing social ladders. They're more to be pitied than anything.
The kind of sociopath we see in American Psycho is a purely hypothetical construct, and we likely lack very valuable data about those kinds of people (if they exist at all).
I don't think they'd be crazymurderers but I would not be for a second surprised if there were rich, successful people with diagnosable Antisocial Personality Disorder. The level of cackling evil a lot of rich people do sometimes for no reason has never ceased to amaze me
Oh, definitely. I believe that such people exist too.
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My illness has definitely finally caught up with me.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
*wakes up*
FUCK.
*checks time*
Oh, fuck.
Fun times.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
After yesterday, the doctor told me to spend the day in bed