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Anguished cries of my enemies.
Mwahahahaha!
Best recipe I had contained fresh sprigs of dill. Could also experiment with small crunchy veggies (carrots, cauliflower, etc).
fubarx@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your personal most hated company or corporation?
40·1 year agoComcast/Xfinity. Installed home security equipment I told them wouldn’t work, then once it turned out it didn’t, they charged me $1000+ for the equipment that they took back, but somehow misplaced. Two years of calls later, they finally ground me down. It’s the one company I refuse to call for my elderly mother when she has trouble with them.
BofA is a close second. Emptied out my little kid’s saving account with fees (even though they said it was a free account when we opened it, so we didn’t bother checking the statements). Hit us up for multiple overdraft fees, then offered to return only three months’ worth of just the fees.
They can all burn in hell.
fubarx@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?
0·2 years ago“Given a list of strings, print the contents of the list to the screen.”
print(stringlist)or if you want to get fancy:
print(", ".join(stringlist))When do I start? I feel like I nailed it.
/s
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Daylight saving creator left the chat....
1·2 years agoEmbedded portable device with a teeny ARM processor. Sadly, no room for linux anything or even an RTC. Every time it connected to a phone, the phone would set its clock so the timestamps were somewhat close to being accurate.
However, if you swapped out the AAA battery and DIDN’T connect it to the phone at least once, all your subsequent readings would go back to zero epoch and would be forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
Good times.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Daylight saving creator left the chat....
1·2 years agoWorked on a project where devices just magically froze, but only during the month of February!
Turned out the people who had written the firmware had decided to do their own time math to save space and had put in an exception in the code for leap year values. Except instead of February 29th, it kicked in for the whole month. And the math was wrong so you ended up with negative values.
The product was due for launch in March of that year and was headed to manufacturing. It was by sheer luck that someone ran a test on February 1st and caught the problem.
Don’t mess with time in code, kids.

Go back to the Garden of Eden with a bucket, grab all the apples, then head back.