Just in case, it’s a reference to the Sun newspaper “winning” the election for Tony Blair’s New Labour government

Ahhh, that makes way more sense. Thanks

Why does the bool have brackets? I haven’t really used c#, seems odd

Gradually watermelon… I like shapes.

Twisted translations

It is. Taking from a service without paying for it, and actively avoiding the service making money via advertising is basically the same as watching a film without paying for it.

Both ways, you consumed a service and the people providing it got nothing, but it cost them something to create and provide it.

How do you pronounce the hyphen in double barrelled names?

From what I’ve seen, it’s Cthulhu.

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It’s closer to markdown.

This is room temperature

https://youtu.be/VxxYqE4Gil8?si=8TIK_JVAT4Ac_Q_E

One man controlling access to a sizable percentage of the world’s internet access doesn’t solve much.

Wasn’t this a Futurama joke?

Jsonb in postgres is fine, I’ve been using it for years. Much better than letting mongodb anywhere near the stack.

In the shape of a kitten

I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

The Animatrix described it fairly closely

I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.

The question was why do I hate it, and it was because of this. I don’t understand your confusion.

For me, it was this

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

I’m neither surprised nor unsurprised. I’m middle aged and don’t have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.