I'm Addicted To A 'single-player Tabletop Role Playing Game': It's Called Mathematics

I'm addicted to a 'single-player tabletop role playing game': it's called Mathematics

reblog if you're aspec and FUCKING VALID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Linux thinkpad / math / transfem

these things coincide oddly often (it’s me I’m the coincidence)

Anyone have any recommendations for laptops? My plan is to install Linux on it, and my budget is ~$500

A friend of mine was complaining about a problem they were having with their statistics class and I offered to help. They had copied and pasted the example code from their lecture and changed some variable names, but after a while we figured out that the csv file their code was using for data storage had a variable whose name had parentheses in it, so R was trying to interpret it as a function. Anyway the punchline is their TA had designed a coding assignment without making sure they could solve it.

Jesus

I spent almost two days debugging and failing to locally reproduce a bug in some CSV getting exported.

When I finally got the prod db dump, it turns out that what looked like a completely different error is in fact and off-by-one shift in some rows, which is because some client inputs contained semicolons, probably for the first time in years. And not sanitizing properly is not even our fault, the relevant code is between 8 and 10 years old, wayyy before we were maintainers.

Today's lesson is: when the client emails you about an error, don't believe their interpretation of what happened.

As a car mechanic, I can safely say, I don't understand the gay agenda. 

I do however, understand the trans mission.