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What's your point?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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An endless question.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I don't want to go off on a tangent but this strikes a chord.
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This post is replete with circular logic.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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In some circles such questions are considered nerdy.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The circle is the point if you get around to it.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Just remember: what goes around comes around.
To Wit:
If one has the aforesaid plane surrounding Gall, is it a circumfrance?
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I don't know about pointless, but I've always thought that chestnuts were lazy.
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If we're ever going to fix those un-straight-edged things, we have to start by adding points somewhere.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Initially, yes, but as r approaches 0 they approach a point.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Awesome! 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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So apparently there's a bug[^], dating back to at least 2009 and still present today where a zip created on a mac isn't readable anywhere else if it contains a file larger than 4GB. I'm a bit disgusted if not overly surprised that neither crApple nor Micro$haft care enough to fix an interoperability problem between their OSes; but the fact that 3rd party tools like 7zip for windows can't open the zips either caught me by surprise. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I worked once wiuth a jackass who found an obscure deffinition of CSV format which was incompatible with that poroduced by Excell or Lotus Notes etc. And the prick went and used this format in his code rendering it incmpatible with pretty mucvh everything else in the world.
What a prick.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: obscure deffinition of CSV
You mean there was more to it than just commas?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Commas CRs and LFs in an unusual combination. It was an old and obscure format, and one that wasnt used. Yet this complete dick insisted on being a prat and using it.
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I get the impression you didn't like this person.
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Some busy body wrote an RFC[^] well after the fact; and AFAIK came up with a definition that has different edge cases than most existing implementations.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This was before 2005, back in 1999 probably, or 2000. God knows where he found this obscure deffinition, but no one in the dev teams impacted by this twerps decision to use it had the balls to mkake him change his code, or take the ocee off him.
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So you obviously admire his research skills, but what do you really think about the fellow himself? 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Oh, didnt I say? He is a complete prat. 
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Sooooo, this clearly states that it's a problem with the Archive utility in Apple messing up the directory in the zip file but you're choosing to blame Microsoft for this as well. Why not throw in Google and Facebook because they haven't jumped in to fix this either?
This space for rent
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The same reason I'm also blaming 7zip. At the end of the day I don't care whose bleeding elephant broke it, I just want the hour I wasted trying to figure it out and the extra half a day I spent using a loaner mac because I couldn't get a working copy of my VM copied to my newly reloaded PC back.
The fact that the zip is extractable on the mac means it's not a fatal error, and any of the other parties involved in reading zip files could have added the middle case in this sample code:
if (ZipFileIsCorrectlyFormatted(theZipFile))
{
ExtactDataFromTheZipFileNormally(theZipFile);
}
else if (CrappleStillCantCreateACorrectlyFormattedZip(theZipFile))
{
ExtractDataFromTheFubaredZipTheSameWayTheMacDoes(theZipFile);
}
else
{
ShowAnErrorMessage();
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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