flabberghaster wrote on March 4, 2018 at 5:25 AM

How else can we handwave away the US' endemic racism in a way that does not require politics to change? No, much easier to just blame it on outside agitators.

flabberghaster OP wrote on February 21, 2018 at 5:09 PM

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in I just heard a car crash by flabberghaster

Same. It sounded minor so i bet it's fine but I don't know for certain.

flabberghaster OP wrote on February 16, 2018 at 12:21 AM

Reply to comment by butthole69 in please tell my co worker to 1) blow their nose and 2) talk on their cell phone in the hall instead of the middle of a busy open office. by flabberghaster

I was grousing about two things: sniffing, and loud phone calls in the office rather than the hall.

flabberghaster OP wrote on February 15, 2018 at 4:59 AM

Reply to comment by devtesla in please tell my co worker to 1) blow their nose and 2) talk on their cell phone in the hall instead of the middle of a busy open office. by flabberghaster

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flabberghaster wrote on February 11, 2018 at 7:13 AM

Reply to I spent 8 hours driving today by Presidential_Afro

What's the road trip for?

flabberghaster wrote on February 11, 2018 at 1:38 AM

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in as a gamer, i wish the hitboxes on upvote buttons were larger by mallaidh

plz nerf

flabberghaster OP wrote on February 10, 2018 at 5:23 PM

Reply to comment by butthole69 in "Here is a link to a boost library" is the "just use j-query" of C++ by flabberghaster

C++ is a programming language. Boost is a very popular set of libraries that contain utilities like different popular data structures or things like that but it doesn't automatically come with C++. When you ask a question about "what's the easiest way to do X in C++?" Often someone will answer by linking to boost.

But boost is also giant, and you don't necessarily want to include such a huge dependency into you project just for one simple task you were asking about so it's kind of not always a great answer despite being extremely common.

JavaScript is also a programming language usually meant for running in web browsers. It's got a lot of platform-dependent quirks: some things work in chrome but not firefox or has some weird edge case in IE.. To smooth out these platform dependent quirks (and also add some really nice utilities and syntax helpers) theres a library for javascript called J-query. It too is pretty big so if you have a small JavaScript project and want to do one simple thing you don't necessarily want to include all of jquery but if you ask online"how do i do X in JS" it was so common for someone to suggest using Jquery that it became a meme to do so among (especially web) developers.

flabberghaster wrote on February 9, 2018 at 6:01 PM

Reply to comment by Presidential_Afro in as a gamer, i wish the hitboxes on upvote buttons were larger by mallaidh

shamergate is about ethics in people feeling bad about themselves

flabberghaster wrote on February 9, 2018 at 4:54 PM

Reply to guess what polygons with 7 sides are called: by cat

Isn't it because hept- and sept- are different root languages one greek and the other latin, and all the poligons use one?

flabberghaster wrote on February 8, 2018 at 4:41 PM

Reply to My apartment is haunted. by Moonside

Oh wow that sounds nice. I live alone and get lonely, might be nice to have a ghost to keep me company. Is it a nice room mate ghost who mostly just turns things on?