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Elder
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#161
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SlumberKitty
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Quietmind 2, unaluna
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
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#162
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SlumberKitty
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underdog is here
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#163
corn starch doesn't expire as far as I know. I think I bought a box in the 90s and still have it. I have some tapioca and a can of chestnut puree from 1993 also. I don't think it will hurt anyone. So far it hasn't
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Elder Harridan x-hankster
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#164
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Elder Harridan x-hankster
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#165
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Child of a lesser god
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#166
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The box was open and a little disgusting inside. Besides we are selling the house and I don’t need corn starch at home. Out it went. __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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#167
If it weren't for a major power outage, I know I would have ketchup and capers from the 80s. I get rid of anything that is furry.
__________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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Elder
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Location: USA
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#168
Does the corn starch pre-date when you moved into the house.
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Grand Magnate
Member Since Jun 2018
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#169
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Probably fair to wonder if this was someone's idea of a joke since tech industries are such sausage fests. I'm probably more bothered because totalCnt seems like a repetitive name than anything, but I've also not had any experience of the c word in real life. ETA - abbreviating count seems a bit much. I mean, they didn't abbreviate total and that has the same number of letters. __________________ Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. -David Gerrold |
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Poohbah
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#170
Oh gosh dont come to my part of Australia if you dont liek the c word. Mostly its used as a matey greeting between males and as a sentence filler in another population.
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Grand Magnate
Member Since Feb 2017
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#171
In the US it's a pretty hateful word. My ex used it a lot in my direction so I'm extra sensitive to it. That being said, I've heard Australians use it and the tone is different so it doesn't seem as troublesome.
I've been programming professionally for 15 years and I've never used cnt for count and I don't recall ever seeing it abbreviated as such anywhere either. If I want to count something, I'll generally use something like numItems. I now know who wrote the code and I'm certain he wasn't trying to be funny with it, so it's all good now. |
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Grand Poohbah
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#172
I come from competitive programming, so people always make things as short as possible, I have seen variables named that many times, it always meant count and I don't think anyone tried to be funny with that. Also, at my job we used to work with SQL and there you'd name functions that, mainly due to the fact that SQL has a limit of I think 30 bytes to name variables and functions, if you have a function that counts the animals in a specific farm, it's usually more understandable to abbreviate count over farm or animal.
Usually you just get used to some abbreviations and use them even if you don't need to. I for example would always abbreviate total as tot, even if there was no limit on name lengths. Tot actually means dead in German now that I think of it, and I only just realized this and don't think anyone thought of death ever when reading my variable names. It certainly was never intended as a joke. |
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Child of a lesser god
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#173
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The cover headline? Die Queen. Obviously to Germans die is the feminine article, but to English speakers it was quite a different message. __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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Legendary Wise Elder
Member Since Jul 2018
Location: CA
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#174
Work has put me in a bad mood.
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underdog is here
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#175
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The shorthand cnt would not bother me because of the context and I would not have gone elsewhere with what it could mean because of context. I do have some words that can catch my attention -but I usually just laugh because it is my thing -not the innocent word or abbreviation's problem __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#176
UGH.
Possible trigger:
I just want to lay in bed and not talk to anyone and not have anyone talk to me. I want to completely distance myself from everyone/everything. I know isolating is not good. I reached out to my Pastor's wife. She wasn't too helpful but she was trying. I reached out to another friend too and I am waiting to hear back. I have therapy tonight so I guess we will talk about this. I don't even want to get on the Zoom for therapy but I already paid for the appointment so I guess I should. I don't want to go to the hospital so I better manage this. Just a really bad crappy day that has gotten me down in the dumps. __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA |
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Child of a lesser god
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#177
This Onion story echoes a frequent stopdog complaint (no, not therapist-related): 7-Year-Old Unable To Maintain Single Cohesive Storyline While Playing With Action Figures
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underdog is here
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#178
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and this one God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy I used to put onion stories on my bulletin board at school, but after the 12th student thought something was serious - I just stopped. __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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Poohbah
Member Since Jan 2020
Location: Somewhere I'm working to leave
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#179
Can someone link me that website... TELL (?) for therapist exploitation? I'm okay, I just want the link to give a friend.
Edit: Found it. I didn't remember the words in the acronym TELL, but now I do. https://www.therapyabuse.org/ |
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Poohbah
Member Since Jan 2020
Location: Somewhere I'm working to leave
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#180
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Major disclaimer, just to avoid misunderstanding: I don't think people want to wallow in depression. When I'm suicidal, I isolate myself too, and everything seems utterly pointless. Instagram Comic Last edited by Quietmind 2; May 18, 2022 at 07:22 AM.. |
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